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All I can say was I heard it a minute of two when the Kilmarnock fans were celebrating their equaliser. Im not a Rangers fans so Im not bigging them up or doing down Kilmarnock. But it was pretty clear to me.

Oh dear, someone's spat their dummy out. And Im sorry, I am not being racist here but it seems like city's owners believe they can act in sport how they do in their own country. It's almost like 'how dare you challenge me! Dont you know who I am?' Manchester City’s fierce hostility to Uefa’s investigation into the club’s alleged breaches of financial fair play regulations has been laid bare in court documents, which show City sought financial damages from Uefa for alleged leaks of the process to the media. The furious case mounted by City is detailed in written reasons issued by the court of arbitration for sport for its decision in November to dismiss City’s case. The club had appealed against the decision by the “investigatory chamber” (IC) of Uefa’s club financial control body to charge City with breaches of FFP, and refer the case to the control body’s “adjudicatory chamber” (AC). The IC’s investigation followed publication of internal City emails by the German magazine Der Spiegel which suggested the club had deceived Uefa in their financial submissions, principally because City’s owner, Sheikh Mansour of Abu Dhabi, was funding the club’s sponsorship by the state’s airline, Etihad. Manchester City and West Ham to play rearranged game during winter break Read more City deny any wrongdoing and appealed to Cas against the referral by the IC itself, arguing that it was made “improperly and prematurely”, that it “lacked procedural fairness and due process”, and did not treat City equally with other European clubs. City also protested about the leaking in advance of the IC’s intended decision to charge the club, and subsequent media reports, alleging: “Uefa has systematically breached, and continues to breach, its duty of confidence.” The ferocity of City’s accusations against Uefa drew an emphatic response from Yves Leterme, the IC chair, who wrote on 20 May: “I must vehemently reject your allegations of unlawful activities, either by myself or by any of the members of the Uefa CFCB, in particular of its investigatory chamber. Y our allegations are groundless in the merits and unacceptable in tone. Please be advised that I will not continue such an exchange of correspondence and that I will not respond further to groundless accusations directed against me personally and/or against my fellow members of the IC.” Cas refused City’s appeal against the referral, ruling that an appeal cannot be made until a final decision by a governing body, and City could make all their arguments at the hearing before the adjudicatory chamber. However the Cas panel of three lawyers described the media leaks as “worrisome” and questioned how Leterme “could be so confident” that they had not come from the CFCB. They ruled that even if a CFCB member had been responsible for a leak, that did not mean they had not been impartial when reaching the decision to charge City. The AC was understood to have heard the charges last month, and a decision is awaited. If it finds City guilty of deceiving Uefa over its finances it has the power to ban them from the Champions League, as recommended by the IC. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/12/manchester-city-fury-ffp-case-leaks-court-documents-uefa-cas

I wonder if the shite will release some news about their unicorn build in the next week just to keep their fans on side? Cant have der redshite bigging up anothe rloft extension and stealing their thunder.

I thought it was a soft one (foul) to be honest and if VAR was used in Scotland, I think the Kilmarnock equaliser would have been looked at as there was a suggestion of accidental handball. Yeah, the Kilmarnock fans were deffo signing die, die ricksen and it came over quite clear on the BT feed. I dont know if there's history between the two sets of fans as Ive only been watching Rangers since Stevie's been up there. There was no mention by the commentators but I guess they're told not to comment on such vile chants and only apologise if you hear 'fucking cunt!' from the pitch side mics.

Dont understand why some people on here are convinced Mo wont be here next season, Sadio is off or the club would entertain a pathetic offer of £75m for Bobby!

Kilmarnock score again after a Morelos goal was ruled out for a nothing 'foul.' Stays like this will surely kill off Rangers title hopes. Some pretty bad chanting by the Kilmarnock fans, die, die ricksen? Shocking.

Kilmarnock peg Rangers back, 1-1

Rangers 1 - 0 up against Kilmarnock at half time.

I think Jurgen didnt like 'clyney's' hedonistic lifestyle while he was out injured instead of trying to get fit. Neither did Clyne seem to take note when Jurgen bombed sakho out of the club for the stunts he pulled out in the US and with his, erm, dietary supplements. Ignore the warning signs at your peril.

Ha, sorry, I didnt realise it was a piss take.

Do you think fans who cant get tickets to games should be totally disregarded then?

Im not sure there are any amatuer sports in the Olympics nowadays. You might get some amatuers competing in every discipline but, most if not all the medal winners will be on some form or sponsorship, full or part time. It is disappointing news from our perspective but I can also understand a player wanting to represent their country. I still dont buy this argument that the top clubs in the world, mainly but not limited to Europe, are not powerful enough to get together and put a stop or some form of restriction on their employees turning out in all these international competitions year after year after year.

It isnt arsenal's model at all. Their owners are presiding over stagnation not to mention syphoning money out of the club. arsenal's model is more like the glazers at united.

100% agree with this.

More infor from the Echo. Liverpool are confident their proposed £60million Anfield expansion will be complete by the summer of 2022. The Premier League leaders are aiming to build on their current framework to take the capacity past the 60,000 mark over the next two-and-a-half years. The second stage of the Reds' public consultation started on Wednesday with local residents once more invited to share their thoughts on the expanding of the iconic stadium. Over 800 responses were received from the first round of consultations last year, with more than 90 per cent of those attending in favour of the proposals to stretch the ground's total capacity to 61,000. A series of drop-in events will now be set up at The Kop Bar as the club aim to gather more information from locals before proceeding with the next steps. The first of the public drop-in events will be held from midday-8pm on Wednesday before a second takes place between 4pm-8pm on Thursday. A pop-up information stand will also be visible at Anfield ahead of the visit from West Ham United on Monday February 24 and the club are hoping to hear more positive feedback. Around 7,000 additional seats are wanted with the majority to be sold as general admission. An outline of the number of those seats within the stand would be 5200, with around 1800 lounge and sports-bar style hospitality. That means the Anfield Road's potential upgrade to 16,000 will be bigger than the Kop's current capacity by a third, taking the ground's total up to 61,000, making it the third highest in the top flight behind Manchester United and Tottenham. Once the second stage of the consultation has been completed and feedback has been assessed, the submission of a planning application will be presented to Liverpool City Council in the spring. Should all run smoothly, Liverpool are hopeful that construction can commence towards the end of the year, and the club feel they are on course to complete the work alongside London architecture firm KSS before the start of the 2022/23 campaign. Liverpool's chief operating officer, Andy Hughes, said: "There are still some really big steps to get through. "This consultation is a really important process and I think we’ve demonstrated that through the first round; there have been some concerns raised and we’ve relooked at the design and we need to go through that process again through this second round. "Planning is a really big hurdle for us and we’ll be working really heavily on that through the next four, five or six months. "And ultimately, the finances need to make sense in terms of the build cost when we finally understand that and the schedule. "I think it’s a bit early to say it’s definitely summer 2022 but, assuming everything goes to plan and there are no major hurdles on the way, then that is our target date." The ECHO understands a rough estimate of the work will cost Liverpool around £60million, but no money will be loaned from club owners Fenway Sports Group to fund the expansion. "I think overall it’s been really positive, 93 per cent positive support for the overall scheme," he added. "We’re really encouraged by the turnout at the drop-in sessions, the amount of feedback we got, so overall I think it was a very positive first consultation. "There is obviously some negative feedback in there, mostly focused around the road. So we’ve listened, we’ve gone back, had another look at the design, and I think we’ve come up with some really good solutions to those issues, which we’ll be going through in this second consultation." https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/anfield-road-stand-stadium-expansion-17734033 Liverpool are open to the prospect of naming rights as their plan to expand Anfield's capacity takes a step closer this week. The Reds are aiming to move their iconic stadium's capacity beyond the 60,000 threshold with the second stage of public consultation beginning on Wednesday afternoon. Around 7,000 additional seats are wanted with the majority to be sold as general admission. An outline of the number of those seats within the stand would be 5200, with around 1800 lounge and sports-bar style hospitality packages. That means the Anfield Road's potential upgrade to 16,000 will be bigger than the Kop's current capacity by a third, taking the ground's total up to 61,000 to make it the third highest in the top flight behind Manchester United and Tottenham. Once the second stage of the consultation has been completed and feedback has been assessed, the submission of a planning application will be presented to Liverpool City Council in the spring. Should all run smoothly, Liverpool are hopeful that construction can commence towards the end of the year, and the club feel they are on course to complete the work alongside London architecture firm KSS before the start of the 2022/23 campaign. And with the increase believed to be costing the club an initial estimate of around £60million, the ECHO understands the potential of bringing in additional revenue through a commercial naming of the stand is on the table. Naming rights were on the agenda for the unveiling of the Main Stand back in September 2016, but the club were able to offset some costs for the construction by sponsoring the individual lounges instead. "The whole team have gained a huge amount of experience working on the Main Stand," said Liverpool chief operating officer Andy Hughes. "A lot of the advisors we’re using and our internal team all worked on the Main Stand project. I’m hoping this will be a little simpler but yes it does help. "We did actually sponsor some of the internal lounges but Anfield is Anfield. There’s a different market for sponsoring an individual stand but we’re still looking at all those options. I still think all of them are potentially options going forward. "There’s no difference in approach, it’s just really early days. We’ve not really progressed that at this stage but we will at some point think about it." A total of 93 per cent of local residents provided positive feedback on the plans at the first stage of consultation last year with the club in dialogue over the minority who voiced their concerns over road access. The opportunity to extend the use of the stadium beyond football matches is also being explored, building on the success of events last summer when the likes of Pink, Take That and Bon Jovi performed. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fsg-open-prospect-anfield-naming-17734276

'Safe standing' doesnt add any to the capacity. It's still 1 person standing or 1 seated. My legroom on the 1st row of the SKD Upper is fine. The lower is still Kemlyn Knee territory though.

Ive said before in my opinion the only extension to the SKD is possibly adding about 10 more rows to the top of the upper tier. It would be a feat of engineering because the roof would need to be jacked up and it and all the roof supports lengthened and strengthened. The cost would be massive to add about 2500 seats but they wouldnt encroach that much closer to the back of Skerries properties. Extending the Kop is almost a no goer at all in my opinion. You've got main sewers and other utilities under Walton Breck Road and getting the utilites agreement to move them will likely be nigh on impossible, never mind buying up the businesses that would need to be bought up. That means to me a wholesale increase is out of the question. It might be possible to add lopsided rows and square off the back of the Kop so it runs parallel to the road but again, you're going to have to lift the whole roof so people on the back row can see all the pitch. And again, the cost will be massive. End of the day, people didnt want us to move to a new build bowl so the capacity of Anfield is always going to be a compromise.

Well the weather forecast is 51mph wind and pissing down in Norwich around the time of our 5:30 kick off. So yes, skill level will come into it but the conditions could be a great leveller from a Norwich point of view.

Didnt he fake his grandma's death or something to get out of an international call up? All turned to shit afterwards I think!

Their game against WHU re arranged for 19 Feb.

From This is Anfield. Hope Dave doesnt have a problem with this, there doesnt seem to be much info on the offal. In documents seen by This Is Anfield ahead of a consultation with the public on Wednesday and Thursday, the Reds intend to add around 7,038 seats and be completed in time for the 2022/23 season. Work is planned to begin in autumn this year with the establishment of foundations and substructure, with the demolition of the current upper tier to take place at the end of the 2021/22 campaign. Key redevelopments will be undertaken out-of-season, in the summers of 2021 and 2022, to allow minimal disruption to matchdays—as with the Main Stand expansion between 2014 and 2016. There will be no restriction to the current Anfield Road End during works, with the new stand to be built to the rear of the existing 8,962-seater setup. The new two-tier stand will be the same height as the Main Stand and will create an imposing view from Stanley Park. The current Anfield Road End fan zone and disabled parking areas will be occupied for construction, with these to be relocated on a temporary basis. The stadium will ultimately lose 125 parking spaces, with alternative disabled parking provided in the Stanley Park car park. Liverpool will likely ask the Premier League to play at least their first two games of games at the start of the 2022/23 season away from home, as with in 2016/17 when their return to Anfield came on the fourth weekend of the Premier League. The stand will continue to accommodate both home and away fans. The initial idea was to move the visiting fans to the opposite side as currently, but this isn’t clear if this is still the case. There will be no new hospitality sections in the stand, but a new, internal hospitality lounge will be added, presumably replacing current off-side hospitality locations the club utilise. There will also be improvements made to the interior and exterior concourses at the Anfield Road End, with the club releasing images of their proposed changes in November. The club will submit their new planning application later this year, with design to be led by KSS architects as with redevelopments to the Main Stand and the Kirkby training ground – the latter is due to completed this spring, and is currently on course for a potential handover date in mid-March. Liverpool will update the public on their plans for changes in the Anfield area later this week, with the new plans involving re-routing the road itself around the stand, rather than closing it off completely. Anfield Road will, though, be closed during the construction and on matchdays. The Reds are set to apply for permanent and unrestricted use of the stadium for other events, including sports such as boxing and American football, and concerts in the off-season. It all means that, should things go as planned, Liverpool will be playing football at a 61,000-capacity Anfield stadium in two-and-a-half-years’ time. https://www.thisisanfield.com/2020/02/liverpools-timeline-to-complete-anfield-road-end-expansion-revealed/

Premier League considering ending city's 'winter' break early and rescheduling their game against West Ham next week. Cue city fans new conspiracy myth this is to hand the league to Liverpool.

We're supposed to be sniffing around that Turkish lad but the problem is going to be getting anyone of Adrian's quality to sit and wait for cup games when Alisson isnt playing.

So long as the gimp remains manager, I really couldnt be arsed who they sign. A tactically inept manager is still tactically inept even if he is surrounded by world class players.

He loves his song we sing to him here too much to go anywhere else. We used to have a policy to telling players when another club had bid for them and whether the club was prepared to entertain the bid. Not sure if we still have it now with Jurgen but, Im pretty sure Jurgen would just laugh at it and especially at £75m.