FestiveJack

We are fucking massive.

It would mean that, if the rules the Premier League are bringing in were in place for this season, Chelsea would probably need to find £71.5 million (or £153 million) from somewhere to avoid being over the cap and incurring whatever sanctions there would be. These new rules won't be in place until 2025/26, so there's time to sort this. Kinda mad that being in Europe would more than double Chelsea's cap issue.

They mostly don't have to, given that five of them (and Brighton) make up the 6 teams furthest under the squad cost cap.

Bayern should've had a penalty there - I don't think the Saka is a penalty, but on first viewing I though it was. This angle changed it for me - Saka tries far too hard to initiate contact here. Kane should've been sent off for his elbow on an Arsenal defender though.

That's fucking wild.

It will be interesting to see what kind of figures come out about the compensation Sporting will get for Amorim. When he moved to Sporting from Braga, they set a then record for a manager's compensation/transfer fee at 15-20 million euros. That's only since been beaten by Potter to Chelsea and either Tuchel or Nagelsmann, in one of their moves.

Erik Ten Hag's moments based playstyle saves them again. And maybe they could feel agrieved that this was given?

Oh hey, Alex crashed and now Williams have zero good chassis because of him.

Only Manchester United can produce a game where Chelsea are better in the second half than first.

The funniest timeline wins again! TWICE!

New best twitter account tbh.

Should've probably happened prior to the international break. Club are going with in-house appointment until the end of the season, will pick a new boss based on what league we're in I suppose. Hopefully this lifts the boys for Friday away at Rotherham.

John Percy at the Telegraph - who's usually bang on about this sort of thing - is reporting that we're about to sack Ian Foster after losing to Bristol City at home today. Hopefully it does happen. Neil Warnock in until the end of the season could be a decent shout.

Classy Emma, real classy.

Louis Rees-Zammit's voodoo to end up as the only WR the Chiefs have begins...

Thank fuck for this.

A three year deal is now being reported. Dunno if that's normal for practice squad or IPP guys or not but that's kinda exciting for him.

I try not to criticise referees and take the view that the 22 players on the pitch have far more of an effect on the result of the game than anything a referee does. But fuck me the referee in this Plymouth Argyle vs Norwich game has to be the worst I've ever fucking seen. Books an Argyle player for diving instead of giving a penalty when Norwich keeper Angus Gunn takes him out. Plymouth Argyle player is down in the Argyle box with a head injury - referee insists he be taken off the pitch to let them play on, Norwich score whilst he's off. Two Norwich players collide and Gunn puts the ball out of play for a throw. Argyle go to take the throw in quickly as they're fine and getting up, referee stops them. It so frustrating because it's never us who get the benefit of these decisions. And it happens every other game now.

Liam Mandeville appears to be on a 27 hour bender after Chesterfield won the title.

Albon had better score some points this weekend...

Things that happened today - graffiti on the route from Liverpool to Manchester calling Liverpool fans murderers, poverty chanting from United fans after every goal for the club, shouts of murderers clearly heard on the broadcast, Munich stuff both online and in the stadium, and someone in the away end threw a flare down into the disabled fan area (because clearly, that's a good place for disabled fans, below away fans) that injured a guide dog and forced the area to be briefly evacuated. Fuck football fans man.

Y'know, I'm starting to think having zero shots on target every game is not an effective strategy to avoid relegation.

Tbh it always is.

It's genuinely wild that Dai Yongge was ever allowed to buy Reading in the first place, and the sooner there's an independent regulator with strong powers to stop this kind of thing the better.

Then it was correct.