Luton won't win the league - Premier League 2023/24

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/07/manchester-united-invited-convicted-paedophile-geoff-konopka-to-first-wsl-match-at-old-trafford

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/07/manchester-united-deny-any-cover-up-in-allegations-against-antony

Think that's it for today

Bloody hell

just dysfunctional on every level. is there even any part of the club that works anymore other than the mechanisms for sucking money out of it?

there's an element to me of -not to defend this, pls understand - "this could be any club in the epl and beyond" and united while architects of their own handling of each have been also unfortunate

arsenal, city, spurs, everton all also have high profile players that have been corporately/strategically defended to pick a random term for sexual/domestic assault allegations and im only going from memory and recent memory at that

you could say football/epl has a problem, you could say corporate sport or corporate strategy has a problem and i think youd be closer to it than focusing on the utter fucking balls united have made around this issue ever since re-signing ronaldo (or should i bring giggs into it here even? not sure what the club treatment of that issue was)

by which i mean to say in my middle para that the media and legal structures that epl can buy seem to have protected those clubs to an insane degree but uniteds players have all gone unignorably viral or public where the other cases havent to the same extent (or mayb not with three separate cases, tbf)

agree with all of that

Seems bizarre that there hasn’t been a move towards something similar to the MLB domestic violence policy that takes some of the decisions out of the hands of the clubs, enables sanctions in the absence of criminal convictions and has an education/ training / psychological intervention element for all players as a preventative measure.

That doesn't seem bizarre to me at all tbh.

enables sanctions in the absence of criminal convictions

sports clubs not the only structures that really dont have a standard approach here, not even in the very public sphere

is ex mail journo neil ashton still running pr at man utd btw?

https://x.com/lauriewhitwell/status/1702376239875440992

777 Partners has signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full stake in Everton Football Club, which accounts for 94.1 per cent of the Club’s shares.

777 Partners has signed an agreement with Farhad Moshiri to acquire his full stake in Everton Football Club, which accounts for 94.1 per cent of the Club’s shares.

— Everton (@Everton) September 15, 2023

americans presumably

Not sure how accurate this is

777's Clubs since they've taken over:

🇦🇺 Melbourne Victory: Yikes. Last season they managed 28 points from 26 games. Lucky there's no relegation in Aussie Football.

🇮🇹 Genoa: Relegated from Serie A in first season of ownership, went straight back up are so far are not…

— Tom Levins (@TomLevins1) September 15, 2023

An update in the comments says Vasco and Sevilla are currently in the relegation zones of their respective leagues.

777 Partners is an American private investment company based in Miami.

well ofc

brexit endgame going to plan eh

can they be much worse than Moshiri tho?

what better way to give your 20 year old CB his first Prem start than against the Wolves' attack?

BOOM

Neto's back baby

Cunha take those clown shoes off

really shd've finished that half more than the 1 goal up

that's an incredibly restrained analysis should be three minimum

i'm trying to manage my all purpose anxiety which is aggravated enough whenever i watch us

i can only recommend appointing ange postecoglou as manager sorry if that doesnt help

great futuristic half-mullet from Matt Doherty here

the same half mullet fucked us against the dutch so tbh....

fuck sake

i know, i know

got the 2+ goals and the Salah assist, if Jota had managed one shot on target before getting subbed I'd be £110 richer. I need to stop doing these stupid fucking bets!

delighted for you :|

alas I didn't win shit, although I'd like to add I wasn't betting on a Wolves loss here.

oh right, yeah that is a lot of eggs in the one basket

cunt ref is it

ref and var total shameless cunts in this game tbh

simple obvious pen ignored, timewasting in the extreme not punished and spurs players booked for nothing

ref has booked sheff utd keeper for handling ourside box but utterly ignored ten mins of timewasting from him

just have clearly decided to help out poor lil shitkicker sheff utd today

maddison just booked for....holding his head at another shit decision

so any decent managers available?

you could have seen this coming, hard to ask players to beat the opposition when the ref is so clearly revelling in winding you up at a certain point

helluva day for away teams

More like Tenuous Hag than Ten Hag.

Daft long VAR review for a late Villa penalty. Ref sticks with giving it.

I don't think it should have been overturned but I'm biased

And now it's 3-1 Villa hahaha

Never in doubt!

ref still needs killing but yesss

ended that game with Bruno playing CB

Ten Hag was the real bald fraud in Manchester all along

happy for postecoglou and team that they managed to keep the head and pick through the passes for a decent winner, feels like a good mark of progress

but delighted for richarlison who is v much in the soldado bracket of it might not work out but it wont be for lack of trying