Bizarrely I get it on LCD with the new Murder on the Orient Express. The game isn’t Deck verified and it’s an idie game so I am sort of guessing its an audio codec issue/driver whatevers.

Honestly I think it’s still overly harsh considering the circumstances. It’d be one thing if they were just flaunting the rules.

But they were right, they were trying to declare overspend as COVID allowance. They fiddled the books to write it off and tried to hide the breach.

But they got fucked by Covid like everybody else but then right as they were recovering there lost all investment from Usmanov due to the Russia Ukraine conflict.

The Ukraine war isn’t a factor, they got fucked by COVID like everyone else but declared far higher COVID costs for no reason. They used COVID write offs to remove some of the bad debt from all those years of bad investments.

They did breach FFP, this happens to championship clubs all the time, we can’t allow different rules because it’s the Premier League.

And it won’t be a 10 point deduction, the sentence always gets halved on appeal, it will end up a 5 point deduction.

Except they almost always half the penalty on appeal so Everton will almost certainly get 5 points deducted no more.

For those that dont follow the championship where this has occurred a few times, the sentence almost always gets halved on appeal, so the end deduction will be more like 5 points.

I don’t think it’s difficult to understand if you watch their games this season. They create plenty of chances, they are solid at the back they just can’t put it in the back of the net.

A team like Fulham can’t have multiple good strikers in the wings, it leaves them open to falling hard when a striker leaves. You got to get lucky and find a good replacement.

They will be fine this season but they got to be spending all their efforts identifying a striker to bring in the summer at the minimum.

That’s why I suggest pulling in experts from other sports rather than upskilling football referees.

To be honest I don’t think we do that enough, football has this silly notion of needing all its participants to have been sat at the alter of its greatness all their lives.

Here’s an idea, instead of trying to get out referees to understand it why not see if we can get some cricket & rugby referees trained up to give it a go in football.

Because part of the library won’t work, some will work but with tinkering. They would have to build some sort of verified system like Steam has. It’s not just a fix one problem deal. Without that they open themselves up to all sorts of consumer complaints.

And here’s the thing, Xbox has lost the console war yet again. It’s a lost cause atm. I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft were working on abandoning the living room console space for a hand held like the Deck. Have that work with gamepass out of the box and they will sell. Microsoft have spent years in mobile windows UI, it’s not too difficult for them to do it. They are long established hardware manufacturers. It really wouldn’t take much for them to enter with a big rival to the Deck.

I think so.

You can point to last season’s teams doing well though as a counter.

But my thought is that unless you have money I can’t see how any team can buy a PL player. If I think of my club Boro. We have no money, we rely on loan players heavily. If we go up the going rate for a prem league player is £30m+ now. We could not afford that no matter the increased revenue. We would go straight back down. We would need several seasons yo-yo-ing to have sustainable finances to buy the best of the championship outright and make a tilt at staying up.

A few years back you could go up, spend a total of around £30m on some smart buys and be within a fighting chance.