*Shakes head* Everton again.

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

They’ll have been doing electronic device interrogation probably, and then sending a file to the CPS for charging advice. It can take a while.

It sounds to me (the electronic device bit) that should take no time. It's been about a year now hasn't it? 

[Pidge]

Haven't won it in 16 years, and the winner last season had never won it before, but yeah...

[Anubis]

1 minute ago, Barrington Womble said:

It sounds to me (the electronic device bit) that should take no time. It's been about a year now hasn't it? 

They have a massive backlog in cases. Too much work (drugs cases, child photograph cases, etc) and not enough resources. Due to a lack of CPS resources getting a charging decision can take time as well. That’s how it is. 

[Barrington Womble]

1 minute ago, Anubis said:

They have a massive backlog in cases. Too much work (drugs cases, child photograph cases, etc) and not enough resources. Due to a lack of CPS resources getting a charging decision can take time as well. That’s how it is. 

They seem to be able to speed it up just fine for the killers of Tory MPs! 

[gkmacca]

Purely in the interest of balance: they didn't exactly drag their heels over the murder of Jo Cox, either. 

[Anubis]

For obvious reasons, murder investigations take priority.

[Barrington Womble]

5 minutes ago, gkmacca said:

Purely in the interest of balance: they didn't exactly drag their heels over the murder of Jo Cox, either. 

Fair point. Maybe I should just say MP, I only mentioned the Tory really as he was sentenced last week or the week before, which my first reaction to was "that was fucking quick". 

 

And for @Anubis why do murders take priority? The victims of sexual assault who are trying to get on with their lives are surely entitled to want the rapist banged up? At least the killer was in prison anyway in this case. Our blue cousin hasn't even been charged yet has he? Which to me seems unfair on both sides. If he's guilty, it's unfair on the victim, if he's innocent it has finished his career. 

[Harry Squatter]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

Closed shop…. Look at the amount of utter, utter rubbish they’ve wasted their money on…

 

They can't explain the closed shop theory when you point out that Leicester have won all 3 domestic trophies since they last won one. That Wigan and Cardiff have won the FA Cup since 2010 and West Ham and Leicester are in European semi finals this season.

 

Also Fulham and Middlesbrough have been in European finals since 2000 while Everton couldn't get out of their group in 2017 which included 3 teams who spent a fraction of what they did.  Their mental gymnastics are absolutely outstanding. 

[Barrington Womble]

4 minutes ago, Harry Squatter said:

They can't explain the closed shop theory when you point out that Leicester have won all 3 domestic trophies since they last won one. That Wigan and Cardiff have won the FA Cup since 2010 and West Ham and Leicester are in European semi finals this season.

 

Also Fulham and Middlesbrough have been in European finals since 2000 while Everton couldn't get out of their group in 2017 which included 3 teams who spent a fraction of what they did.  Their mental gymnastics are absolutely outstanding. 

Cardiff haven't won the fa cup since 2010? They got beat by Portsmouth at some point before they went to shit I think. 

[Pidge]

Swansea won the league cup.

[Harry Squatter]

2 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Cardiff haven't won the fa cup since 2010? They got beat by Portsmouth at some point before they went to shit I think. 

You're right. For some reason j thought they had won it recently by beating Portsmouth. 

 

Anyway, Portsmouth aren't part of the sly 6 or are sky favourites going by their conspiracy theory.

[johnsusername]

£45million on Gylfi Sigurdsson has got to be one of the worst transfers in history. Who the fuck signed that one off. 

[an tha]

All these clubs who have won a major trophy since the bitters last did.....

 

Portsmouth

Wigan

Leicester

Aston Villa

Blackburn

Middlesbrough

Birmingham

Swansea

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

They're really buying into this PEDs comfort blanket thing, aren’t they? 
 

I mean, look at all the players we’ve got here. There’s got to be a reason why our players can run and press so much…

 

https://sport.optus.com.au/articles/os39283/epl-2022-premier-league-most-distance-covered-this-season-statistics-opta-data

 

 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

49 minutes ago, Nelly-Matip said:

They're really buying into this PEDs comfort blanket thing, aren’t they? 
 

I mean, look at all the players we’ve got here. There’s got to be a reason why our players can run and press so much…

 

https://sport.optus.com.au/articles/os39283/epl-2022-premier-league-most-distance-covered-this-season-statistics-opta-data

 

 

 

 

So, we don't run further than other teams. And we don't run faster than them, either.

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/who-new-fastest-player-premier-league-following-departure-adama-traore 

 

And we certainly don't recover from injuries any quicker.

 

What do our PEDs actually do?

[Anubis]

Just now, AngryOfTuebrook said:

What do our PEDs actually do?

 

Provide Everton with a comfort blanket. Bit awkward that none of our players are on there but Iwobi and Richarlison feature....

[Talismanic]

4 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

So, we don't run further than other teams. And we don't run faster than them, either.

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/who-new-fastest-player-premier-league-following-departure-adama-traore 

 

And we certainly don't recover from injuries any quicker.

 

What do our PEDs actually do?

Shit you’re right! Can we get our money back?

[manwiththestick]

58 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

Provide Everton with a comfort blanket. Bit awkward that none of our players are on there but Iwobi and Richarlison feature....

And Townsend, although they'd not count him as he was a Raphael signing.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

So, we don't run further than other teams. And we don't run faster than them, either.

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/who-new-fastest-player-premier-league-following-departure-adama-traore 

 

And we certainly don't recover from injuries any quicker.

 

What do our PEDs actually do?

Promote Evertonian Derangement Syndrome?

[Strontium]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

What do our PEDs actually do?

 

You don't have to take PEDs to be on PEDs, but we're all on PEDs.

[sir roger]

Do Lallana's figures include when he is being carried off ?

[Barrington Womble]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

So, we don't run further than other teams. And we don't run faster than them, either.

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/who-new-fastest-player-premier-league-following-departure-adama-traore 

 

And we certainly don't recover from injuries any quicker.

 

What do our PEDs actually do?

Make the VAR hallucinate us penalties. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

8 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

So, we don't run further than other teams. And we don't run faster than them, either.

https://www.planetsport.com/soccer/news/who-new-fastest-player-premier-league-following-departure-adama-traore 

 

And we certainly don't recover from injuries any quicker.

 

What do our PEDs actually do?

You could ask Gylfi.

[Block305]

New thread on GOT. Posted Saturday night, just after we beat City (of course) - discussing all things Champions League.

 

Some interesting opinions. Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[joe_fishfish]

I'd be all for spreading out the European cash more across more clubs and more countries, making all of the European competitions have a bit more variance to them. It is kinda boring to see the same clubs in the Champions League quarters every single season.

 

But we all know the real reason that thread was posted, and it's got nothing to do with seeing Bayern, PSG, the Madrid sides, Chelsea, City etc do well every year in Europe. If they were finishing 8th-10th every year but we were finishing bottom half I doubt they'd even realise the Champions League existed.