You have an alcohol problem, you’ve got people trying to help you, and you still think it’s a good idea to go out for a night on the lash. And blame everyone else and moan that nobody takes you seriously.
At a certain point you’ve got to take responsibility for your own actions. Nobody else can help you if you aren’t prepared to help yourself.
I can say that I fucking blame them 100%.
Yeah, this. The Premier League is officially a completely different league from the EFL; transfer between the two is as much a matter of election as it is promotion and relegation. Those elections are basically formalities most of the time, but getting the EFL to accept Moneybags City would be a less trivial exercise.
I’m sure some deal would be done to accommodate them, but it’s not just a unilateral decision for the Premier League.
The Premier League would have to either dock them something like a hundred points (as per your suggestion), or expel them from the league entirely and let the chips fall where they may.
Most likely is that they drag it out for years and years and eventually decide it was too long ago and abandon it. In unrelated news, the Premier League will receive a mysterious and vast sum of money which they say they will spend on improving the standard of the League. They won’t.
The 1994 European Cup final when AC Milan beat Barcelona 4-0. We’d all watched Football Italia by then of course, but that was when I saw just how good AC Milan really were at that time.
My preferred version of the offside rule is “if you’re in the 18 yard box, you’re interfering with play”. By your very presence you’re altering the movement of defenders and keepers and thus should be given offside.
It’s been said a few times but yeah, refs used to wear all black so teams weren’t allowed to clash, and now it’s historical. Refs still wear all black in most of the lower divisions so a new startup club will struggle to establish a black kit history.
Most famous away black kit is probably the one Eric Cantona wore when he dropkicked that Palace fan.
In 1936 City ranked 9th for goals scored and came 9th. Yes, one of the teams who scored more than them were relegated (Aston Villa).
More pertinent is that the league hasn’t been won with less than 60 goals scored since 1910. It ain’t that era of football any more.