The timetable for our case has an initial verdict being given in early April, so there's some time (and 5 or 6 more games) before we can even expect to know what it might be.
Everton's initial verdict (for 2019-2022) was November 17th but having taken 3.5 months from then to not announcing an appeal verdict yet, they are apparently going to wrap up both 2020-2023 cases in less than 6 weeks.
It's thoroughly unsatisfactory to have pivotal punishments dished out at the business end of the season....but then almost everything about football administration and governance is thoroughly unsatisfactory.
It's almost like waiting 3-5 minutes after a goal to decide if it counts or not.
I don't think I agree with any of that anymore. Much more in the now the novelty has gone just left with the shit bits camp.
Spotlight - not that much different to me.
We aren't beating the best anymore.
I'm not sure we have that many world class talents and if we do then they are gone before we've seen much of them (MGW be gone in summer I'd say).
Are we progressing. As I Tricky pointed out losing 4-2 is better than 2-0 for goals scored, otherwise not much progress for me.
Playing those teams and winning a bit more is more entertaining than watching us lose to shit like Bournemouth, Brentford, Luton (draw, loss to come away I'm sure).
Premier league is now all the bad things I thought it would be before we got there.
I suspect the fact that you go to games and I don't plays a big part in our differing views.
I do though think that since Nuno arrived we have played some of the most exciting and entertaining football we've yet produced in the Premier League, and with a full preseason and no transfer madness we'll be well placed to have the comfortable mid table season we were supposed to have this year.
They moan the football is boring and booed the team off after their last home game.
You're likely right. The state of this shit hole country and it's transport system is a big part of the issue I think.
12 hour day on Saturday to get from Putney to Birmingham. 3 cancelled trains back, stress of trying to get seat on train.
Saturday will be as bad and VAR will no doubt allow the narrative of Klopp's Kids to prevail.
It'd be interesting how fun it is for them if they got stuck in the championship for a few seasons
Worth remembering perhaps that being in the Champo is no actual guarantee of winning lots more games. Hughton was not that long ago.
I'm sure someone mentioned this before.
Sure but we won 9 league games last season. That only happened once in 23 seasons outside the premier league (Kinnear/Megson relegation season).
Even snippier than normal in the ManU pre-match: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKjIX4aKMs
It's all very well for him to say that questions about points deductions aren't for him but until the club puts Cartledge, Marinakis or Wilson(?) forward for a press conference, he's the club's only public spokesman.
Edit: Unless Percy is now the club's defacto press officer.
He's not exactly high energy, and makes the questioner really toil (in vain) to eke out anything useful.
So he's fulfilling the remit that he was given. He's not going to be as popular as SSC.
9 out of 38 isn't that much worse than Hughton's overall 14 out of 53, and it's not unreasonable to argue that the wins were far more memorable. We've had 13 or fewer wins out of 46 games in 5 different seasons in that period.
If we go down, we are likely to be in even more of a financial and footballing mess than before.
I like that I can get a decent stream of every game without having to search to hard.
I feel like every club that gets relegated says this. Then they are mostly fine and get promoted again.
