Belgium v Egypt, first quarter over! Second quarter due to start in a couple of minutes, advertising dependent.

FIFA genuinely have made ‘soccer’ a game of 4 quarters for this World Cup, just like NFL and NBA. I wonder if Richard Masters is taking notes.

🚨 Wth?! 😱 An older spectator caused a seriously dangerous incident today at #SaarlandTrofeoJuniors by trying to get a better look and entering the course with her rollator while riders were flying past at full speed! #LVMSaarlandTrofeo #Habkirchen #Saarland #Germany #Cycling

Corrupt 😡

“Evertonians”respect the need for financial rules, but those rules must be applied in a way that is fair, consistent, proportionate and rooted in footballing reality”. #EFC @EFC_FanAdvisory

Everton Fan Advisory Board have this evening released a statement 🔵

You know I think we should stop participating in this kangaroo court with the PL and just take it up with a real tribunal Throw some weight behind it and use up all of Burnley's resources so they go pop.

This is absolute bullshit. The Premier League stinks.

City bidding £120mil for a player Newcastle had to sell to comply with FFP while still having not had a single punishment for 115 charges. On the day Everton are punished yet again for one overpayment that only occurred because of the War in Ukraine. Football has become a farce

Hey Bobby It’s normally at about this point that the Daily Mail would write an article about the BBC ‘wasting’ money sending staff to cover a World Cup. Hard for them to win isn’t it?

🚨David Phillips KC, Alan Greenwood and Nick Igoe who made the panel that gave Everton their original 10 point deduction heard were the same panel that heard this case with Burnley

So Chelsea signing Eden Hazard and billion pounds worth of players WASN'T sporting advantage..as they went on to buy trophies. But paying to build a new stadium and not being allowed to sign many players throughout.. WAS. Get f🤬🤬🤬ed Premier League and Burnley 🖕

So: a further utterly NONSENSICAL aspect of the ruling against Everton by the independent commission is that they openly admit to relying heavily on evidence from David Baldwin to establish the link between £19.5m overspend and the 4 points extra Everton gained ahead of Burnley. 1. David Baldwin, and by the IC's OWN ADMISSION, had spent 6 years being associated with Burnley. 2. His testimony was treated as that of an 'expert' despite him admitting he was using his "lived experience". Seriously? 3. The gist of Baldwin's argument was that Everton's £19.5m overspend - which was cumulative over 3 years - could you be used entirely to support the extra 4 points Everton gained over and above Burnley in the one season, 21/22. This was without him using any mathematical, statistical or probabilistic modelling - just 'lived experience' 4. Remember, we already established that the IC thinks a PSR breach can occur at anytime, 365 days a year, during a 3 year cycle - and not at the point they are actually tested. This is 'dangerous & unworkable' as Everton put it in their statement & also highly likely why they were so angry. There is no way the rules were drafted to intend this. It also means if you were already in breach of PSR but sold hotels or your women's team to cure it, you are still in breach. Clearly a nonsense, because in several instances these "cures" have been allowed - *as long as it was done by the financial year end, when PSR was being tested*. This is a key pillar of Everton's defence - Burnley were relegated before Everton's year-end and so a PSR breach had not yet occured. 5. Baldwin's testimony is used to rebuff that; he infers that sporting advantage was gained already at the start of the season because Everton did not reduce their squad/sell players/adjust their PSR position. Not true. Everton submitted an initial PSR position showing compliance - they did not set out to breach.

Everton Big enough to make it look like teams are getting punished Not big enough for anyone to actually care

Let’s trust that the Friedkins know what they’re doing. This Burnley case was there before they took over and they should’ve made plans for these fines. This won’t change how we spend in this transfer window. Worst case, just up the price of the donuts 🍩🤷‍♂️

Premier League has now published the full written decision of the claim case. Cheekily, it seems to have just been added to the original page for the November 2023 announcement. resources.premierleague.puls…

Massive if true because When City get found guilty clubs like Villa are going to point to the Carabao final & lost european income from Chelsea last season getting CL & us missing out. Cant close Pandoras box once its opened

Everton will appeal the decision, they have two weeks to log it. No timeframe when an appeal will be heard Burnley's legal team told the panel their "financial circumstances are so weak" if EFC are successful on appeal there's "a real risk Burnley would be unable to pay it back"

Feels like a dangerous road for football to go down. Everton have already been punished with a points deduction. The club's statement is right to question the precedent. If clubs can be retrospectively sued over league positions and hypothetical outcomes, where does it stop?

Anyone fancying a read of the laughable conclusions 👇🏿