Blimey. Only just seen this. Fair play to Luton who have given the PL a good go this season but it is a bit of a sad indictment that a team with 21 points from 28 games remain so close to safety and could well stay up due to points deductions on Everton and Forest yet to come.
Blimey. Only just seen this. Fair play to Luton who have given the PL a good go this season but it is a bit of a sad indictment that a team with 21 points from 28 games remain so close to safety and could well stay up due to points deductions on Everton and Forest yet to come.
Luton v Forest this weekend is a huge game. Must win for Luton really.
Their run of home games left is decent - Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford, Everton, Fulham. Away from home not so good - Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Wolves, West ham.
Spurs with a chance to move into the top 4 are getting their arse handed to them by Fulham.
Fulham's Rodrigo Muniz is now currently the PL's most in form striker, 7 goals in his last 7 games.
its pretty amazing how Spurs can flip flop between being brilliant like last week and then being torn a new a hole like last night.
Must admit I didnt see a single kick of the game as was out having some food with my wife but I really wasnt expecting that result last night. Need to watch MOTD to see what bloody happened.
There are 3 exceptional teams this season in Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal. Spurs and Villa are both hot and cold at the business end of the season and Man utd are the Global brand that are nearly impossible to manage after Alex Hairdryer Fergie time. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer went 18 months without losing away but he was tactically naive said fans in Surrey and Sarawak.
The Ajax manager came in to clean up but Erik van Hag squad is about the 6th best squad in the Premier so why should they beat the United Arab Emirates serial winners across the City ?
At the bottom, the 3 that came up are still the 3 favourites to go down despite the spirit shown by Luton. Losing at home to Sheffield United and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at Bournemouth will surely see them drop unless Forest implode.
The Elite Premier league is so far away from the EFL now that it's only a short time from 2 up and 2 down coming back.
The last minute equaliser they scored v Forest seemed a huge opportunity missed by Forest to put clear distance between them and so it seems. With Everton likely to be docked again I think Luton will escape. What's the lowest ever points total to stay up? It seems likely this year will be lower!
The last minute equaliser they scored v Forest seemed a huge opportunity missed by Forest to put clear distance between them and so it seems. With Everton likely to be docked again I think Luton will escape. What's the lowest ever points total to stay up? It seems likely this year will be lower!
The last minute equaliser they scored v Forest seemed a huge opportunity missed by Forest to put clear distance between them and so it seems. With Everton likely to be docked again I think Luton will escape. What's the lowest ever points total to stay up? It seems likely this year will be lower!
West Brom with 34 in 2004/05. 3 teams have finished in 17th with 35 in the Premier League era - West Ham in 2009/10 got 35, but 31 would have been enough.
4 point deduction for Forest, which seems about right
Personally i think there needs to be a set of rules put in place. You fail FFP you will be deducted X points.
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
To be fair they are working off of different scales (Forest were in the Championship so had an adjusted loss permitted). Plus I would expect the scale of the deduction to be in part due to how big the overrun of losses was.
Forest's defence is apparently that they delayed selling Brennan Johnson to make more money, which doesn't really hold any water, when they didn't delay buying players.
Teams knew the rules, seems like they were hoping they wouldn't be applied, or they might have a decent enough excuse!
The last minute equaliser they scored v Forest seemed a huge opportunity missed by Forest to put clear distance between them and so it seems. With Everton likely to be docked again I think Luton will escape. What's the lowest ever points total to stay up? It seems likely this year will be lower!
4 point deduction for Forest, which seems about right
Personally i think there needs to be a set of rules put in place. You fail FFP you will be deducted X points.
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
The argument against this that I keep hearing is that if teams know how many points they will get deducted then they will flaunt FFP because the risk of a 3 point deduction is outweighed by the potential 9 points they'll gain by overspending to purchase the one player who will get them those points.
4 point deduction for Forest, which seems about right
Personally i think there needs to be a set of rules put in place. You fail FFP you will be deducted X points.
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
The argument against this that I keep hearing is that if teams know how many points they will get deducted then they will flaunt FFP because the risk of a 3 point deduction is outweighed by the potential 9 points they'll gain by overspending to purchase the one player who will get them those points.
Might be an idea then to deduct the number of points gained by the players they bought in any overspend
4 point deduction for Forest, which seems about right
Personally i think there needs to be a set of rules put in place. You fail FFP you will be deducted X points.
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
The argument against this that I keep hearing is that if teams know how many points they will get deducted then they will flaunt FFP because the risk of a 3 point deduction is outweighed by the potential 9 points they'll gain by overspending to purchase the one player who will get them those points.
True but it's a mess.
Everton failed by around 20m and got deducted 6 points. Forest failed by 34.5m and got deducted 4 points.
It's getting to the point where if the punishment for Man City isn't absolutely monumental then there's going to be uproar
There will definitely be uproar because i fully expect them to get off the vast majority of the charges, if not all. For a start some of the charges are the same charge repeated, it's not 115 completely separate charges. So if they're innocent of 1 it takes away a group of charges.
In a case so serious the onus will be on the Premier league to prove beyond reasonable doubt that City are guilty of certain offences, and i can see City's very expensive lawyers putting up a strong defence and they'll get off most charges on technicalities.
I'm sure we all suspect they're probably guilty of something but people talking about relegating them i think are way off. They'll probably either end up exonerated or with a minor points deduction and fine.
4 point deduction for Forest, which seems about right
Personally i think there needs to be a set of rules put in place. You fail FFP you will be deducted X points.
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
The argument against this that I keep hearing is that if teams know how many points they will get deducted then they will flaunt FFP because the risk of a 3 point deduction is outweighed by the potential 9 points they'll gain by overspending to purchase the one player who will get them those points.
True but it's a mess.
Everton failed by around 20m and got deducted 6 points. Forest failed by 34.5m and got deducted 4 points.
It’s a real mess, and it’s only going to get messier.
The FA are right to pull up clubs that are clearly breaching fair play rules, but having these things decided when the season is 75% complete is going to lead to a crazy situation at some point when a team that’s been deducted points gets relegated starts appealing to various courts and we don’t know when the season ends who is going to be playing in the premier league the following season.
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Bournemouth now back to 2-3.
A classic 'game of two halves' this.
Going to be tough to take for Luton. Gone from looking like getting a good win to move out of the bottom 3 to an absolutely morale crushing defeat.
Fair play to Luton who have given the PL a good go this season but it is a bit of a sad indictment that a team with 21 points from 28 games remain so close to safety and could well stay up due to points deductions on Everton and Forest yet to come.
Their run of home games left is decent - Forest, Bournemouth, Brentford, Everton, Fulham.
Away from home not so good - Spurs, Arsenal, Man City, Wolves, West ham.
Fulham's Rodrigo Muniz is now currently the PL's most in form striker, 7 goals in his last 7 games.
Must admit I didnt see a single kick of the game as was out having some food with my wife but I really wasnt expecting that result last night. Need to watch MOTD to see what bloody happened.
Spurs and Villa are both hot and cold at the business end of the season and Man utd are the Global brand that are nearly impossible to manage after Alex Hairdryer Fergie time.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer went 18 months without losing away but he was tactically naive said fans in Surrey and Sarawak.
The Ajax manager came in to clean up but Erik van Hag squad is about the 6th best squad in the Premier so why should they beat the United Arab Emirates serial winners across the City ?
At the bottom, the 3 that came up are still the 3 favourites to go down despite the spirit shown by Luton. Losing at home to Sheffield United and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at Bournemouth will surely see them drop unless Forest implode.
The Elite Premier league is so far away from the EFL now that it's only a short time from 2 up and 2 down coming back.
What's the lowest ever points total to stay up? It seems likely this year will be lower!
How can Everton be deducted 10 points which is then reduced to 6, and then a month later Forest are deducted 4.
If there is a sliding scale of deductions based on how much a team failed by then make it public knowledge. No one has a clue what's going on.
Forest's defence is apparently that they delayed selling Brennan Johnson to make more money, which doesn't really hold any water, when they didn't delay buying players.
Teams knew the rules, seems like they were hoping they wouldn't be applied, or they might have a decent enough excuse!
Relegate them, and I am not even joking.
And if not, why not!
Everton failed by around 20m and got deducted 6 points.
Forest failed by 34.5m and got deducted 4 points.
In a case so serious the onus will be on the Premier league to prove beyond reasonable doubt that City are guilty of certain offences, and i can see City's very expensive lawyers putting up a strong defence and they'll get off most charges on technicalities.
I'm sure we all suspect they're probably guilty of something but people talking about relegating them i think are way off. They'll probably either end up exonerated or with a minor points deduction and fine.
The FA are right to pull up clubs that are clearly breaching fair play rules, but having these things decided when the season is 75% complete is going to lead to a crazy situation at some point when a team that’s been deducted points gets relegated starts appealing to various courts and we don’t know when the season ends who is going to be playing in the premier league the following season.