The Premier League - 2020/21 - All Match Discussion In Here

That saying a bad workman will always blame his tools comes to mind?

 

Looks like it won’t matter anyway.

Sounds more like a glitch in the system so they have stuck with the original decision.

So it would have been offside anyway without VAR.

 

The answers are as follows as far as my understanding of it is. There are CL in ice hockey in Europe only. This includes teams from the three top leagues in the continent the KHL(Russia plus single teams from Latvia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Finland and China), Elitserien (Sweden) and SM-Liiga(Finland). However the NHL and Stanley Cup is seen as the pre-eminent tournament for clubs. While clubs in Europe pay fees for players the NHL has it's draft as with other North American sports. Worst team gets highest rated draftee depending on what their General Manager has in mind. It may not be the best junior forward but might be a defenceman and rarely ever a netminder. Seven rounds of 31 choices. Some teams can get multiple picks in a round if they have traded a player for rights to a draft pick.

The draft applies to all junior leagues in Canada namely the WHL, OHL and CHL and American juniors including the NCAA. It extends to all leagues across the world. The problem is clubs in Europe get nothing for developing the juniors. The KHL in Russia is now asking players and agents to pay the club the part of the contract they void when they do go to North America.

It makes the NHL a pretty even competition so that none of the really old established teams such as the original big six have a stranglehold and new teams with an expansion draft as this year with the Seattle Kraken will have a decent chance of being competitive. The salary cap also means one has to be careful about contracts although they can be obscene as well but in order to keep a star player you may need to trade away another one or two players and rely on your draftees. A lot still has to do with the GM's choices and coaches of course. Steve Yzerman picked carefully for Tampa Bay and they won the Stanley Cup but the Buffalo Sabres recently set a record 18 game losing streak and they have had the pick of the drafts in recent years with players like Eichel.

 

Something has to be done about the often minimal contact to the face and players theatrically going down clutching their head or face as if they have been hit by Mike Tyson. It is not only embarrassing it is cheating. It needs retrospective punishment and has crept into the game at all levels. Swansea players have developed it to a fine art.

 

Yes - too easy to get away with it as we have seen a lot.

A Man U player would have done what Son did to get the decision of the roles were reversed.

 

More talk of a European Super league for the big boys.

Very predictable and it looks real this time.

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1383792807035375627

 

Utterly unsurprising given the greed and puffed up importance these clubs regard themselves as. Older fans of these clubs are also disappointed. I doubt very much they want endless away trips over local rivalries.

Many of Europe’s wealthiest football clubs have agreed to join a breakaway “Super League” competition that would mark the biggest transformation of the game in decades. Up to 12 clubs have signed up to a plan, backed by $6bn in debt financing from JPMorgan, to launch a new tournament that would supersede the Champions League, currently the continent’s top annual club competition. According to people with knowledge of the discussions, those ready to join the breakaway contest include Spain’s Real Madrid and FC Barcelona; England’s Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea; and Italy’s Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan. These clubs either declined or did not respond to a request for comment. The new league, according to documents seen by the FT, would involve 20 clubs with 15 being “permanent members”, meaning they could not be relegated and would not need to qualify through strong performances in national league competitions. The founder members would be granted between €100m-€350 each and would continue to play in their national competitions, such as England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga. With expected revenues of €4bn for the competition through media and sponsorship sales, clubs would receive a fixed payment of €264m a year. JPMorgan declined to comment.

The clubs not yet signed up include France’s Paris Saint-Germain and Germany’s Bayern Munich, among the richest in Europe, according to people close to the discussions. A declaration about the Super League is designed to head off an alternative plan for a radical transformation of the Champions League, which is run by Uefa, European football governing body. At Uefa’s annual conference on Monday it is set to approve a radical new format for its competition, which includes 100 more matches each season and more money-spinning ties between top teams. That move comes after the European Club Association, a body that represents the interests of more than 200 leading teams and led by Andrea Agnelli, Juventus chair, gathered last week to discuss the proposed reforms to the continent’s club tournaments.

The ECA agreed to allow Uefa to proceed with the proposed format changes, but there was widespread discontent with the plan, as leading clubs wanted to be given greater assurances over a new joint venture that would control all media and sponsorship rights for European club competitions. Uefa’s attempts to contact Agnelli this weekend to find out whether Juventus had agreed to join the Super League have failed, according to people close to discussions. However, other key power brokers have been informed, such as La Liga’s chief Javier Tebas, who is among the football officials seeking to block the breakaway plan. Leading clubs, which have faced steep revenue shortfalls in the pandemic, are keen on the new competition, which they believe will guarantee income from European matches every season. It could also include aspects of cost control, such as potential salary caps and spending limits. The competition would resemble the structure of “closed” North American sports leagues, where franchise owners enjoy reliable profits and with the valuation of teams steadily rising over time. But the plan breaks with the pyramid structure of the European game, where even the smallest teams, through strong performances on the pitch, can win the biggest trophies. Uefa declined to comment.

The odious scum teams just want to control everything they can and assure themselves of titles and money in perpetuity. The North American model of sports becomes ever more appealing compared to this. However UEFA has issued a response.

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It would be great to see these scummy clubs confined to this boring tournament which would soon lose it's glamour and appeal. Utterly abominable behaviour as usual from the same old suspects. The likes of Abu Dhabi and Chavsea are only even there because of petrodollars and a crooked oligarch handed a large section of Russia's infrastructure for free. Businessman indeed.