How AFCON and the Asian Cup will affect FPL

Archer vs Bou is not a bad option this GW haha.

He's currently in my starting XI

Relegation is never a positive thing

I really wonder how this decision will affect the players and the team.
They have already appealed the decision. But still, this might light an extra fire under them or maybe destroy their moral.

In any other season this would be almost certain relegation for them, but the quality of the 3 promoted teams is such that they may yet be good enough to stay up.

Like Joey Jo-Jo said, this should give all 3 of the newly promoted teams a massive shot in the arm because this is a potential lifeline for them.

Proper Owners???

The Chairman recently passed away. He was loved by many & he was a great Chairman, so yeah, you have a far fetched theory about proper owners because other clubs have been lucky or the league is very corrupt in every aspect.

You make me think you started following PL in 2017.

They gave the penalty this year because they can see that Everton will still be safe. It will get reduced on appeal. They'll never do it to City and Chelsea but they will have made their point.

Hi Joey, you around? Got a question for you when you're free

Lol, wtf even is this post. Specially that last part.

You can just buy Bowen you know

After last GW I expect it’s moved on to a Ward Prowse bandwagon now.

He has 7+pts in 8 out of 12 fixtures so far. And that's a bandwagon that's too early? Ok then.

I wish that Mark and the old gang still ran this site. They would have banned you for wishing a player an injury already.

It's more likely he doesn't get injured and punishes you.

Some people don’t half chat some shite on here at times

Don't even care about the trophies, sure I want them to lose them, but if 2nd place or other finalists get them or not isn't the most important part.

The most important part is that justice should be served, everyone that follows PL knows what City have been doing and how they got to the top the way they have. You don't have to be a MU fan, LFC fan or whatever to want this. As a football fan in general, you want to see that these kind of things are totally unacceptable and that the people in charge can actually grow some cojones and do the right thing.

What if Chelsea were stripped of their titles too?

Stevie G is still living in your head rent-free!

Why TAA?

Nkunku is too much of a punt. TAA is overpriced

1150 point deduction imminent.

I'm pretty sure if it actually happens, that City gets punished. Their fans will deny it all, call the FA, UEFA and whoever else is involved corrupt. Call it injustice, probably even blame LFC, MU and even Arsenal, somehow. Just defend and deflect.

They’ll get away with a slap on the wrist and a fine

Zinchenko

Even with Bellingham beside him, Rice being class in midfield and a few other handy lads, Southgate's pragmatism in big games will undo their chances of winning a trophy.

I don't think he's doing anything that he didn't do before. But he's now at a huge club in a different league and was bought for a huge amount of money so there are more eyes on him and how he's doing, so he's getting more attention now. He's in a much better team now which means more chances for him to score, and well someone with the vision and ability of him having players like Sane, Gnabry, Musaila, Coman and Muller making runs and receiving his passes means he'll have far more assists too

Third defender could give you problems. Strong otherwise

Now added - it's worse than I thought for Forest!

Great spot!

https://youtube.com/shorts/XHRy6_QcU2c?si=TxBnLNgNNIeDGkL9

Haaland might be injured, so wait and see.

But B out of those, if you have 2 fts.

If he is fit, b).

Big difference too is that they actually look (and are) capable of getting results, especially recently where it has seemed like they've finally tightened up a bit defensively under Dyche.

good video here about the fan views etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbmrf0-lC0&ab_channel=SkySportsNews

The ironic thing is, as Everton appealing and delaying the process, does anyone know how long the process would be delayed for?

If it was to the end of the season, I could see them get relegated next season instead? Never has their been 3 such weak teams been promoted?

I take it on the chin and carry on climbing, if I was the Everton board.

I think the punishment is fair, it is an administration-type penalty. I hope Man City and Chelsea get 30 points deduction but that would still be enough to stay up (for Man City)

For sure. He's going under the radar

He's fine but I wouldn't really expect much. Fulham haven't kept a clean sheet since September and aren't exactly looking great going forward so I'm not sure how many attacking returns I'd expect from him. He's had 4 shots all season (none in his last 5) and 0.3 xA all season

No. Fulham not much CS potential. He's less of an attacking threat than at Leicester.

I think high as both defences not been great probably 0-0 then!

Think it might depend a bit on who plays. If it's Gakpo over Nunez and Grealish/Foden over Doku then I'd expect a tighter game (at least until they get subbed on), but then again these games have tended to be a bit back and forth no matter who plays and City always sit high defensively which is primed for the likes of Salah and Diaz to counter so I'd expect goals either way

3-2
Haaland 12’th (no assist)
Haaland 21’th (Grealish assist)
TAA 44’th (Salah assist)
Salah 75’th (TAA assist)
Haaland 87’th (Bernardo assist)

Haaland 3
TAA 2
Salah 1

Federer and Nadal usually.

No firm favourites in either

Yakubu

Fancy Doucoure to torture United?

season keeper for me.

Fine if you've been OK with losing out on all the points he's brought in.

Totps

Black Grape on now so an easy choice.

Wonderwall was number 1 on this day in 95

are they actually playing Malta. What a joke these breaks are lol

TOTP 1995

Forgot that the singer from Dodgy originally looked like Jonathan Creek until the band had a makeover.

Whigfield had another song. Who knew?!

U2 with their Batman Forever song. Just realised that I've somehow never seen Batman Forever.

'king Robson & Jerome again!

I think BRE scores v ARS, might do it myself

You know the risks

Probably coming down lolgo Eze for three gws and get mbeumo too gw14. If Son or saka are not great one of them has to go

No. England haven't had a single shot. The goal was an own goal.

Stonewall.

But refs have a different rulebook when it comes to England. That was obvious at the World Cup.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/22/gareth-southgate-england-referees-iran-world-cup-qatar

Had forgotten the dance and shouty nonsense at the end of MJ's Black or White video. Very odd. Still TOTP 1991 redeemed by Vic Reeves & Wonderstuff with Dizzy. Going to give TOTP 1978 a miss.