Recent content by cvb

Would any business be okay with discovering that their CEO was involved in a massive financial cover up at their previous employer?

If all the charges are proven, then he’d be looking at jail time I’d imagine. I don’t think it’s possible to have the level of responsibility he did without having an intimate knowledge of the requirements to meet competition laws. United wouldn’t be hiring him as CEO if he didn’t have...

His roles were significantly involved in sponsorships and footballing operations, both of which are central to a lot of the charges leveled at City. If City are found guilty, it’s difficult to see a way that someone of his role and seniority could not be implicated.

City have been charged on quite a few counts IIRC. Given he headed up International Business Development and then Football Ops at City since 2013, there’s no way someone so senior can be a whistleblower. So he’s either convinced INEOS that City will be found not guilty/guilty of minor...

It’s unfair to make comparisons with the way the game has evolved over the course of the last 3 decades. Keane and Scholes would spend half their time suspended in the modern era. Fairer perhaps to split it into 3 eras? No particular order (and very attack-biased): 1992-2002 1. Shearer 2...

Looks like you need to take your red-tinted glasses off to read. Haaland literally was given a yellow card for screaming at the referee, and City were subsequently fined £120,000 for the players surrounding the referee.

You’re a conspiracist and so on . The penalty today was given on-field by the assistant ref. It has always been true with PGMOL VAR is that the threshold for clear and obvious error is very high. It encourages players to avidly appeal to officials because they know that so many on-field...

They’re both penalties. Under the law, no player can charge into an opponent like that without committing a foul. There’s more of an argument to be made for a non-penalty if both attacker and goalkeeper are charging into the same space and collide, but both Sa and Onana charge into the space in...

That’s a fair point in a pre-VAR world.

There is nothing in the laws of the game about this, hence Jon Moss’ post-match apology. It’s an offence clearly spelled out under Law 12 and so a clear and obvious error not to award a penalty.

One was given against Ederson at the Emirates last season.

I never called it unofficial. You were trying to equate it in prestige to the UEFA Super Cup earlier in the thread, which suggests that you at least want it to be more important than it actually is.

Ranking trophies is fine. Claiming that a game that you value at less than 1/38th of a league season is an official, important trophy is delusional.

Okay, let’s address that point, then. Would you rather win : a) The Community Shield, or b) The opening PL game?

The logic that it’d be more a trophy for City if they won it does actually make sense, but it isn’t something I buy into. In fact, Arsenal “qualifying” after not winning a competition makes the game more of a non-event than it was already. It makes a lot more sense to play the League Cup...