He has personality. That’s why City had to replace him.

Yeah it has jumped the shark a bit.

In simple terms the sport is administered incredibly poorly. From rolling over for state ownership to the referees on matchday the whole infrastructure is unfit for purpose.

Yeah he needs to not say one fucking thing about officials.

Why ‘already’? He’s in his thirties. His status was already settled.

There’s no innocence to prove. Loads of this stuff was already admitted when UEFA was going after them.

You’re not supposed to, but especially with United away games for example you’ll find there’s plenty of reds in among the home fans. It’s not technically allowed, it’s definitely not safe, but people do it all the time. I’ve done it a few times, I expect other fans of big clubs do it.

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Bottom line is don’t be a dick and don’t get caught, because there are plenty of parts of plenty of grounds where you’ll wish the stewards threw you out if you get caught by the home fans.

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I mean they won’t kill you or anything but you might get a bunch of locals dogpile on you and give you a shoeing. I’ve seen a few in my time but you really have to do something idiotic like celebrating a goal to provoke a violent reaction.

Great. I look forward to watching teams grind play to an absolute standstill until their man is back on.

There’s not many clubs can carry him.

No. Kevin De Bruyne comes back and City disappear into the distance.

Arteta played a blinder, his one mistake was going too hard for the Europa League. Lost two key defenders to injury in one game. The rest is history.

You’d have to be a complete no-nothing to write that off as something anybody else could have done. That is not a very good Arsenal team, but they almost did a Leicester. The scale of the achievement shouldn’t be disrespected.

Yeah Kompany having the Pepstink™ on him definitely gave people ideas.

The amazing win though, it’s not that rare for teams to blow away everybody in the Championship with flowing attacking football. It’s so not rare it’s called doing a Norwich.

The problem is teams don’t play that sort of football in the prem, and even if any team was to try it they would have to be incredibly good.

So when a team like Norwich or Burnley gets promoted and sticks to their tactics against teams who are fitter, faster and better drilled, they always get pumped.

I’m not going to be confident until I see them overtake Bournemouth.

Everton don’t look bad enough that ten points will be enough to keep them down.

Luton need to get into the pack, then between clearly exceptional management and Fortress Kenny they’ll be safe.

Burnley are the new Norwich, it shouldn’t have surprised as many people as it did.

They’re not going to get relegated and severe penalties for Everton improves the odds of meaningful punishments for City and Chelsea.

So suck it up and be grateful there’s such a deep bed of shite in the league this season.

Fans can’t be trusted with the late kickoffs.

The Ballooner is all about vibes, and yeah, the vibes in England don’t sit right with a lot of the judges. You can’t win it by sheer force of stats either way though.

The Ballooner is all about vibes, and yeah, the vibes in England don’t sit right with a lot of the judges. You can’t win it by sheer force of stats either way though.

Be funny if players had to start adding, “Club are big cheating bastards” clauses to cover this kind of thing.

Good luck to Burnley and Leicester.

Lawyers will certainly have a go. Whether they succeed or not, that’s up to the courts. It has been done before and it’s usually expensive.

You have to be able to make a case that the cheating directly screwed you over, so if you’re complete crap and would have been relegated anyway it’s a long shot.