The Football Thread 2023/24: Derby promoted, Brian Clough Trophy up for grabs in 24/25?

[Tomous]

Klopp being shitty to a reporter? Well, I never

[Hypes]

[Moggy]

[Drumstick]

Cole Palmer does indeed look class despite the players around him. You have to wonder if City made a mistake there.

I agree. I've seen enough now to admit I was wrong.

[Tomous]

Cole Palmer does indeed look class despite the players around him. You have to wonder if City made a mistake there.

I agree. I've seen enough now to admit I was wrong.

Did you tell City to sell him?

[Cuttooth]

Drumstick is Pep Guardiola

[Winckle]

Drumstick is Pep Guardiola

That's a bald faced lie.

[Tomous]

"It continued after what was seen on TV. He continued down the hallway, where he yelled and screamed at me. I also followed him because I thought it was something strange," Frederiksen told Danish sports magazine Tipsbladet on Monday.

Klopp really doesn't taking losing well

[more heat than light]

Four point deduction for Forest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68594865

Pretty happy with that, not gonna lie.

[DML]

I think its crazy there isn't an easily accessible guide to how many points you can get in a deduction and for what. To the average fan it feels completely random, like they are rolling a 20 sided die.

[Tomous]

I think its crazy there isn't an easily accessible guide to how many points you can get in a deduction and for what. To the average fan it feels completely random, like they are rolling a 20 sided die.

Was saying this to my mate earlier.

Genuinely feels like they decide a number on vibes.

[Dowbocop]

It's really weird that they don't have a properly defined punishment scale. Could you imagine if referees/VAR just decided whether or not to penalise on-field rule violations seemingly at random based on entirely arbitra...wait...

(In all seriousness I think it might be because "breaking FFP/PSR" is a much more nebulous concept with far more degrees of egregiousness possible than being in administration. If you're in administration you're in administration so it's more black and white legally, but I can't say I'm fully across the legalities of it all)

[Rex Kramer]

Four point deduction for Forest.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68594865

Pretty happy with that, not gonna lie.

It certainly won't be the points deduction that sends Forest down now. They've got the easier run in compared to Luton so if they can't beat their results then they deserve to go.

[Albert]

whats the alternative? yellow card for shirt off, unless youre on a yellow?

The alternative would be to realise it's a stupid rule and just let players do it.

Another alternative is that players just don't take their Shirts off. I believe it was introduced in order to stop time wasting.

They are all aware of the rule, and paid millions to play by them. We might think it's silly but I would be strawberry floating livid if I was his manager.

[Moggy]

whats the alternative? yellow card for shirt off, unless youre on a yellow?

The alternative would be to realise it's a stupid rule and just let players do it.

Another alternative is that players just don't take their Shirts off. I believe it was introduced in order to stop time wasting.

They are all aware of the rule, and paid millions to play by them. We might think it's silly but I would be strawberry floating livid if I was his manager.

It's nothing to do with time wasting as they didn't ban other goal celebrations.

It's probably more to do with sponsors wanting their name/logo in the highlights/photos of the game.

It's a bloody stupid rule either way.

[Dowbocop]

whats the alternative? yellow card for shirt off, unless youre on a yellow?

The alternative would be to realise it's a stupid rule and just let players do it.

Another alternative is that players just don't take their Shirts off. I believe it was introduced in order to stop time wasting.

They are all aware of the rule, and paid millions to play by them. We might think it's silly but I would be strawberry floating livid if I was his manager.

I agree with this as well. With the current rule in place he shouldn't do it, especially if he's on a yellow. But the little tussles they have inside the goal when the scoring team is trying to take a quick kick off is much more shithousey in terms of time wasting and nobody ever gets booked for that!

I've heard what Moggy said about the sponsors etc as well so I thought that's why it was in place, but apparently it was to prevent time wasting and "political messages". So entirely financial really because the time wasting is nonsense.

[PuppetBoy]

I found this quite amusing. Sunderland's under 21s played yesterday. Apparently the U21s starting XI had a higher average age than Sunderland's first team had against QPR on Saturday.

Often when we're playing quite poorly people say "throw the kids in" - doing that would probably make the side more experienced. Mad.

[Peter Crisp]

All luton need now is for everyone above them to get docked 75 points and we're in the champions league.

[Moggy]

All luton need now is for everyone above them to get docked 75 points and we're in the champions league.

It's the fairest thing to do.

[Imrahil]

As expected, Dani Alves has forked out a 7-figure sum to be released immediately following his guilty rape verdict.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68616200