Support your local team. Premier League is like Marvel Football. It’s not real, it doesn’t matter. It’s just a TV show. A very decent TV Show but it really doesn’t matter.

There needs to be a pundits licence, likes the way there is a coaches licence.

Most of them do not actually understand the laws of the game or the guidelines given to the refs to administer during games. Pundits will see a decision that they don’t like and say its wrong. When the referee actually did the correct thing, as per guidelines. This undermines everything that they are doing and deflects from the fact that the laws are inadequate and referee’s have too many guidelines to adhere to. But that’s the problem when you have people complaining about consistency.

You cannot have consistency and common sense. When one man’s handball/foul, is another man’s "play on’.

They gave the correct decision via the IFAB guidelines. Blame the guidelines.

The PGMOL guidelines are different because they go all Brexity and believe they should implement laws in their own way.

I am solidly of the opinion that there shouldn’t be such a thing as a good yellow card or a good foul. I can’t think of any other sport where you can benefit from committing an infringement (potentially basketball).

Having a dangerous counter attack and being cut down 40 yards from goal isn’t much use to the attacking team. A yellow card and a free kick 40 yards out is pretty useless.

I think either a sin-bin, or a free kick from the position of attacking teams choice is the best option.

Or to be really out there, an indirect free kick from the penalty spot? Defenders can get behind the ball too.

It’s a narrative for a season that will probably be defined by Man City walking their umpteenth win.

Sky always tries to portray themselves on the side of the fan. They’ve been constantly on about owners at all levels because who the hell cares about rich people, but we can of course relate to the football fan.

They did it during the Super League debacle even though it was nothing to do with the will of the fans, it was that they do not have the rights to it and their business would have went under.

The police wouldn’t allow it. The Boxing Day fixtures are generally rubbish, as the police are stretched that day. They never have derby or rivalry matches on this day.

Dark Horse: Albania

UEFA need to intervene and say you can’t loan players in from countries that do not adhere to FFP.

The PIF could essentially sign Mbappe, Haaland, Bellingham et al, pay them 2 million a week and just loan them out to one of their European clubs.

The ref was imprisoned a few years later for trafficking heroin through a US Airport

Football is very popular there but they don’t tend to support their own. Even during the World Cup last year, there and Bangladesh were rocking up to big screens wearing jerseys of other nations. Indians were going to Qatar to support England. It’s very weird.

India generally have a very poor sporting record. They have 10 Olympic gold medals in their history. It was only really in the last 20-25 years that they sorted themselves out in cricket.

If football ever got big, the BCCI (Indian cricket board) would wield their power and try to crush it.

The big Spanish football clubs needs to futureproof against potential Catalan independence. If Catalonia breaks from Spain, the Spanish government won’t let Barcelona play in La Liga and also a Catalan government wouldn’t want Barcelona playing over there either. It would de-legitimize an independent Catalonia. Barcelona is their crown jewel

I’m not advocating for the Super League, I’m just saying that this is probably a part of their thinking.

Great. Now do Man City.

Drogba: Haaland Lampard: Bellingham Robben: Kvaratskhelia (opposite side)

I’m not sure if there is a sensor in the Nike ball, or if there is, it isn’t approved for accuracy. Only the Adidas ball at the moment is accurate enough according to FIFA to be approved for it.

If it’s the slot machines or poker, yes. If it’s the horses or tennis, yes. But do not bet on football and most certainly do not bet on your own games. I have no sympathy for guys betting on their own games. I don’t care if it’s for themselves to win. There’s a red line and you don’t cross it.

I think people are forgetting something important, that football is a sport not a business. Just because there are new owners, it shouldn’t forgive that sporting integrity was potentially breached.

However if the new Chelsea owners did report several breaches then there should be mitigation and there should be some leniency. However they do need to be punished in sporting terms. There shouldn’t be fines because it is a different ownership.

World Cup 2014. Netherlands 5-1 Spain.

Spain were dreadful to watch and played such turgid football. To see the end of the era like that felt amazing.

I forgot Dynamo Kyiv. Pre-War obviously 😆

28, I think.

14 in Ireland (Lansdowne Road, Croke Park, Shelbourne, Bohs, St Pats, Shamrock Rovers/Tallaght, UCD x 2, Cabinteely/Blackrock, Bray Wanderers, Kilkenny, Monaghan, Derry, Finn Harps)

Oldham,

Liverpool,

Notts Forest,

Rapid Vienna,

Dinamo Zagreb,

Sibenik,

Aris Thessaloniki,

Levski Sofia,

Partizan Belgrade,

Brodarac,

Warta Poznan,

Polonia Warsaw,

Gamba Osaka,

FC Seoul,

Šiauliai (Lithuania).

Instead of individual shirt sponsors and kit manufacturers, have a collective sponsor/manufacturer. The money gets split evenly between the 20 teams. I think a kit manufacturer would be more feesible.