Oh dear city

What's with the black flags they are waving at City? 

Loooolllll

Barca resorting to type 3 hoofing now

Oh dear barca

35 minutes ago, Genie said:

This has the feeling of a game that’s going to end in chaos

You're not wrong!

Barcelona collapsing here after a superb start.

Ooooh red card for Barcelona. Just as they looked to be coasting.

10 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Streetly actually comes under Walsall council.

Whaaaaaatttt

9 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Oooh no, no, no. I am not going back into the postcode rabbit hole. 

 

Let's move to Streetly!

Just now, sne said:

Any idea why the ref gave the ball to Arsenal  

WM commentators were baffled by that too

39 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Oddly, at on time BSkyB owned 11.2% of Manchester United, 9.9% of Manchester City, 8.8% of Leeds United, 4.8% of Sunderland and a chunk of Chelsea - all at the same time - I'm guessing that made the tendering process for TV deals interesting. Also at that time, ITV, through Granada, owned 5% of Arsenal and 9.9% of Liverpool. The 90's were weird.

 

I genuinely did not know that!

17 minutes ago, limpid said:

Just Google and Meta for me. I may drop Meta when we get unified messaging standards later this year.

Never ever joined Facebook. I could see what they were right from the start. Got annoyed when insta and WhatsApp happened - and as much I try to use Signal I can't get some family members to switch annoyingly.

Personally I don't trust Apple as far as I can throw them. Never have done. 

Just wondering what the reaction would be if say Man Utd became part-owned by a company that was seemingly closely linked to Sky.

2 hours ago, T-Dog said:

I just meant the tax exile side, apologies if was communicated well. **** Everton anyway, they're literally the shadow of us when we went down and they've been lucky to survive

Oh right ok. I figured that tax exile status was integral to the dodginess of the payments, but maybe it's not really.

Anyway, I wonder if there's much more stuff they've "creatively accounted" away.

5 minutes ago, T-Dog said:

Man, football is complicated enough, let's not bring politics into it too! 

Politics? I don't see any politics in that story. I see a club trying to obfuscate significant payments such that they didn't feel they needed to report them in a season when they were already breaching the rules.

Ummm....

Everton paid £30m in interest to lender with links to tax exile, documents suggest

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/12/everton-paid-30m-interest-lender-rights-media-funding-links-with-tax-exile-documents-suggest

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Everton has paid about £30m in interest charges to an opaque lender associated with a tax exile, corporate records suggest.

 

The charges appear to have reached about £438,000 a week, according to the troubled Premier League club’s most recent set of accounts, a figure more than three times the reported wages of the Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

 

However, most of that cash outflow has now been excluded from Everton’s most recent profit and loss account after a controversial change in accounting policy by the club that has allowed it to report lower losses – and which may give rise to a further points deduction by the Premier League.

 

The change in how the club accounts for debt interest comes amid intense scrutiny of its finances by the Premier League. On Monday, Everton was deducted points for the second time in the season for breaches of profitability and sustainability (PSR) rules.

Got a win, the most important thing, but we haven't made it easy for the away game.

Great goals by Ollie and SJM.

I really hope Cash is back so we can play Konsa in the middle. We are struggling so much with this defensive lineup.

Just now, villa4europe said:

2-1 up, tight game, good game, 5 mins left

People leaving 

We don't help ourselves  

Will never understand people that leave early. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

Christ that was close

We need Cash back so badly. Despite the criticism he gets we are just a disaster in defence with this setup.

Not a surprise