The Premier League - 2021-2022

Been on the cards for a while. Fact is we've had external auditors advising us on the accounts and the 'add-backs' allowed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, including offsetting infrastructure costs, women's football expenditure, Covid losses for the 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons and youth development costs etc make the headline figure of 300 odd million redundant. It's about £84 million. For Burnley or Leeds to win a legal challenge, they'd need to prove that the signed off accounts are fraudulent.

On top of that, let's not forget that West Ham were genuinely guilty of deliberately flouting the rules and lying to the PL about them on the Tevez and Mascherano deals 15 years or so back and got away with a fine

I am not concerned

 

I'd have done the same in Vieira's position. "Lord" Sugar is a **** though.

 

A bit different to celebrating staying in 'The Greatest League in the world'(™️). Especially for one of the big clubs (lol).

 

This is the sort that should be banned from entering football stadiums

 

Ah - our repellent current CEO front and centre of that one if I recall?

 

I take it all back. Love the Everton fans.

 

That's an odd looking hand, gesture notwithstanding!

 

And anywhere really!

 

National treasure and crisp advocate.

 

Say LCFC fans.
"Pillock" says everyone else!

 

You get to smack one over the head with a tennis racket, do you use it on Sir Gary, Wilf Zaha, Ben Foster or Boris Becker?

 

https://twitter.com/bbcsport/status/1527753122499674112?s=24&t=_0l-5zxyR4d4C2S2ZWdQgQ

Burnley and Leeds have complained about Everton’s overspend. No chance anything will happen. Had it been us or Burnley, instant points deduction.

I hate how bent the Premier League is.

 

Read, (ignore), what ToffeeBlue has said.

 

Appreciate the different viewpoint and well done for not biting at some of the bile. It adds tremendous value having genuine fans of other clubs on this site.
I have a daughter up that way and she told me the scenes in the city centre after your rivals won the FA Cup were like nothing she's seen in Watford before.

 

Maybe because Watford have never won the FA Cup?

 

We've had enough highlights for a club our size to compare.

 

I'd have to play 'rock, paper, scissors' to decide between Mr Tumble and GL.
I'll think about it on court and ask my lessons, although I'm not sure the 8 year old at 1pm will be much help!

 

Nowt wrong with a few tears after a huge win, although some of the pitch invaders' reactions are obviously OTT

 

Grown men crying because they were so scared about being relegated from the EPL is definitely sad.

 

I could only take one of two conclusions from this (and neither are meant to be insulting, but I'm struggling to articulate them particularly well)...

1) You're hardened by your own experiences

2) Everton means more to them than Watford does to you

Neither are negatives, it's just different

 

The Scortish Cup final seems to be just as bad - also 2nd vs 3rd, still no goals and hardly any shots on target!

 

It's gone to a final set tie break!
Probably as most are too young to remember Crisp Boy!

 

Sorry Filbert, but Crisp Boy for his thinly disguised dislike of Watford. Zaha I’d probably miss as he fell over. I’d throw it to the cycling GK, not knowing whether he’d catch it brilliantly or let it sail over him. Boris Becker? Don’t know who he plays for.

 

MAHUSSIVE Club!

If they want the champagne they'll get the champagne.....

 

Dreadful game and dreadfully one-sided with Hearts just playing for pens (5 shots in 2 hrs, not one on target).

 

The gulf in Scotland is ridiculous. The equivalent to a team on a par with Wolves playing a Rotherham in the final.

 

Scottish football, it’s like Tyson Fury versus the worlds best Welterweight - it’s not a competition worth of serious consideration.

 

In fairness to Hearts they did manage to bridge what is normally a monumental gap between the Old Firm (or Gruesome Twosome as fans of other Scottish clubs like to call them) and the rest by actually finishing 2nd above Rangers in 3rd, but that was a long time ago (back when George Burley used to be a good manager, which is a good indication) - I can’t remember another example in recent seasons (like, say, Aberdeen getting into the top two, not counting the seasons Rangers were out of the Scottish top flight of course). Admittedly I haven’t followed Scottish football closely lately, but it seems to me to happen far less often than Leicester, West Ham or Newcastle occasionally breaking into the PL top six.

 

Just caught up on this thread, enjoyable read on the whole.

One thing I can’t get my head around. You’re an Everton fan buzzing about the late drama and get caught up on the emotion so run on the pitch to celebrate. Fine, no issue with that. By all means have a good old cry as well.

What I’m struggling with is the abuse at Viera? Some little muppet backed up by a few thousand others giving it large doesn’t surprise me. But Everton weren’t competing with Palace for anything? So what’s the point in that? Just an excuse to say stuff to any professional footballer or manager? Weird.