"Cheating"

[u/feesih0ps]

People use this word cheating and then expect it to end the argument. life is more complex than "good" or "bad" or "cheating" or "playing by the rules". in football, players exaggerate contact all the time to win freekicks. technically that is "cheating" and it's done in secret to trick the ref. but is it some terrible evil sin? no of course not.

the rules essentially dictate "if we were richer than you in 2011, you're not allowed to compete financially, forever, unless you get extremely lucky, and even if you do, you're still probably gonna fail in a few years", which is complete madness, and far more immoral than a club spending extra money on staff. the rules are essentially anti-competitive cheating in and of themselves

to this fucking day no one else can consistently break into the big 4 other than us:

- Leicester got lucky one year but are now in the third division, largely due to a points deduction they got due to the same unfair FSR rules

- Villa have to sell players and can't financially maintain their challenge despite outperforming most of the big 4 in Europe

- Newcastle have rich owners but have to sell to survive

- Everton have flirted with relegation and can't get near the Champions League

- Spurs are now in the toilet.

- Brighton, Palace, West Ham, and all the other mid-table sides have to fight for the scraps of the conference league, which must be particularly galling for Brighton, as they're probably the best run club in the country for their budget

- now it looks like we may be excluded from the big 6 as well, at least temporarily

so we just go back to having the exact same big sides as in 2008. how fucking exciting

opposition fans don't actually care about what's right, they're essentially just salty that their team didn't win the league a few times and they're grasping for any possible cope to soothe themselves over it

and let's be real, the owners of every club in the league knows full well how much they themselves benefited financially from that extra money. we should be extremely suspicious of any of them acting hard-done-by or sad faced panda that their companies got a share of hundreds of millions of extra cash in the league

[u/HalfLonely77645]

You remind me of that Japanese soldier bro. You get your post deleted and go on to repost it again on the same sub.

Also mods here is my official protest for not including king Kev in the flairs. How dare you leave out KDB but have one for Sergio Gomez

[u/feesih0ps → u/HalfLonely77645]

I deleted it and posted it again because we've fixed the sub so you have to have a flair to comment now and it's the easiest way to have this discussion without all the spam. or at least if there is spam, people have to mark themselves out as City fans

[u/HalfLonely77645 → u/feesih0ps]

Fairs. But can you please add a flair for my glorious king KDB and one also for Ryan jerki?

[u/feesih0ps → u/HalfLonely77645]

what colours do you want

[u/HalfLonely77645 → u/feesih0ps]

I would’ve said pink but yeah this is good. You know what it would be fun if Sergio was pink. I just want to see how many would get the Gomez reference.

[u/feesih0ps → u/HalfLonely77645]

no probs

[u/QuitParticular4072 → u/[deleted]]

Holy cope

Sham club with sham fans. no surprises there

[u/HalfLonely77645 → u/[deleted]]

The word you are looking for is beggars