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Six-time French champions Bordeaux, sanctioned in the summer for financial irregularities, will play in the sixth tier of French football this season, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine league confirmed on Thursday.
🔗 aje.news/byglfs
Really enjoyed the @Cheshire_FA CPD tonight. The coaching of @CarlWild75 never fails to inspire and stimulate the grey matter!! Really whetted the appetite to look for the right opportunity to get back into it - 2 months out is too much 😂.
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All this FFP and PSR stuff is getting boring. Strip away the mythical “cartel” nonsense and it’s simple, City and Newcastle fans want mega rich owners to spend what they like, hence Newcastle fans suddenly becoming City’s unofficial legal team.
United, Liverpool, and Arsenal weren’t handed their position by the Premier League. They spent generations winning trophies, building support, and growing revenues, just as Real Madrid and Barcelona did in Spain.
Do the rules need changing and ambitious clubs have room to grow? Absolutely yes, but rules also exist to stop clubs buying an advantage through inflated or disguised revenues.(City)
And cut the morality act.
Newcastle and Villa fans aren’t leading some great socialist revolution to save football, they want wealthy owners to spend their way to the top. They weren’t hamstrung by PSR for the previous 70 years or more, they were mostly just shite.
Argue for different rules by all means, but stop rewriting 70 years of history and dressing a billionaire’s chequebook up as Robin Hood fighting the cartel.
Watched a proper game of football this afternoon up at @HeswallFC_. Classic cup tie decided on pens. Based on today, would be surprised if Moreton aren’t in Div 1 next year
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This is absolutely my bottom line feeling on the City debacle. Whatever plays out, Klopp and LFC are in every meaningful sense the British team of the last decade and in the discussion for the greatest in the history of the domestic game. Not been measurable (yet) in quantum of trophies, but it’s surely now beyond reasonable moral dispute.
Klopp’s Liverpool are arguably English football’s greatest ever side. If measured out in points totals, definitely. The 2019 team has the greatest *real* points total in history, and added a CL the same season. Then there’s the 2022 team that without City’s fraud has the second highest points total, and a domestic treble.
Football, in sanctioning city, can try to reflect all of this or not, but the ultimate truth is more evident now than ever.
Every bit of news about City enhances Klopp’s reputation. An excuse to post a long interview I did with him six years ago tonyevans92a.substack.com/p/…
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Here is definitive evidence that Etihad was complicit in the “sham arrangements”.
Note: Peter Baumgartner was Etihad’s Chief Commercial Officer at the time
@etihad try explaining that away before you pretend to threaten people for telling facts
🚨MAN CITY UPDATE - ETIHAD THREATENS PREMIER LEAGUE WITH LEGAL ACTION
😡Airline and City's major sponsor 'categorically rejects' PL panel finding it was involved in 'sham' deals
⚠️Explosive statement claims that PL has 'created damaging implications for Etihad' & warns it must now 'take responsibility for the consequences'
🗣️Also says 'at no time' was it consulted & will now seek legal counsel
dailymail.com/sport/football…
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Strip them of their titles. Revise every season to a table of 36 games each for 19 teams. Wipe their results and achievements completely out of the record books.
Expel them from the Premier League and EFL. Take back every single penny they filtered in illegally, and the hundreds of millions in compensation other clubs are due.
The owners have shown no regard for the rules and obstructed investigation at every turn. And even to their last statement remained defiant they’d done nothing wrong.
Their players should seek to dissolve their contracts and run free. The utter disrespect this club has shown to the rules and to their league opponents over half of the history of the Premier League means everything must be taken away without remorse.
Despicable.
Centurions again 😳
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
After last night’s awards, that’s 2025/26 done with @BurscoughFC1946 U18 in @NORTHWESTYOUTH2. It took 9 months but sun finally came out! Some season - didn’t end with the trophies, but the lads were immense. 2 weeks & into preseason with the U21s in @northwestu21 league!
Congratulations to Fylde 👀😳🤷♂️
NWYA League Winners 25/26 🏆
Premier Division
⚪️⚪️AFC FYLDE⚪️⚪️
Division 1
🟢🟢Pilkington Fc🟢🟢
Division 2
🔵🔵MAINE ROAD🔵🔵
Development Division
⚪️⚪️AFC FYLDE COLTS⚪️⚪️
Congratulations to all the winners!
#NWYA
Tough end to the season, losing the effective title decider against Fylde last night in a tense, tight game. Some effort though by the @BurscoughFC1946 U18s this season. Runner up in the NWYA Prem is a strong effort against so many full-time outfits. One last one tomorrow!
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A six-minute VAR delay with 25 replays to decide which of the multiple set-piece wrestling manoeuvres was clearly and obviously worthy of punishment. A fittingly decisive moment for the 2025-26 Premier League season.
