And a transfer ban for a few seasons, and removal of their trophies since 2009, and a permanent ban on their owners ever owning a club in English football. They need to come down super hard on this shit, set a string example. Burnham’s weasel wording the other day about the club was very disappointing.

I hope that’s on top of at least £1b in fines.

Aww, is bargain bin Dr Evil being held accountable for his bullshit? Poor baby!

Bonus points if the funds go directly to youth football groups.

This is a great idea. Transmute their dirty money into something bc that helps the game me at the most finance break level. The right kind of money laundering.

Failing that, divvy it out to the clubs who were relegated from the PL directly because of results against Man Cheaty. You got relegated by 2 points and you lost to City while your relegation rival got a result? Here’s £15m as a small measure of compensation. But this shouldn’t prohibit law suits.

Relegation isn’t enough. They will just bounce right back up if that’s the only punishment. They need to have a multi-year transfer ban and a massive fine levied against them as well.

And all their trophies (or at least the domestic ones, where the FA has authority) should be taken from them. Even if they don’t hand them to the 2nd place team, just null them out for that season. And that should include every season between 2009 and 2026, not just the years that they were explicitly charged with. It’s not like their finances were magically rectified in 2019. Every season after 2018 is tainted too, because those further sessions were built on the cheating from the 2009-2018 seasons.

Man C114y

What punishments I’d like to see enacted:

• Relegation from the PL to League Two
• Complete transfer ban of any player aged 18 or older for at least 5 years
• Huge financial fine of at least £3 billion
• Every PL trophy they won since the irregularities started in 2009 taken away and given to whichever team finished 2nd (so: Man United x3, Liverpool x3, Arsenal x2)
• Every club who didn’t qualify for Europe or who got relegated from the PL as a direct result of fixtures against Man City to sue them (use some of the huge financial fine to help pay for those clubs’ legal expenses)
• Official club rename from Manchester City to Manchester Cheaty. (I’m joking on this one… maybe)

They need to set an example here.

What punishments I think will be given after the ridiculously long appeals process is exhausted:

• Financial fine of £250m

Because Swartz didn’t have a legion of expensive lawyers at his disposal. ☹️

Even just the idea that Grok despises its own ‘creator’ of fucking hilarious. In that case Grok would fit right in with many of Musk’s own biological children.

Full quote from the wife of the sailor who became so desperate he recently tried to commit suicide while on the ship:

I don’t think the man thinks before he talks, and I was really hoping that at some point, there would be a redemption. Try to redeem yourself, at least a little bit, with everything that you do and everything that you say. Try to redeem yourself. Have some sympathy, some empathy, take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ships, and your war. And your war.

Um, it’s infuriating. I mean, we heard what Hegseth said yesterday, what the president is saying today. It’s infuriating, saying, essentially, that families are lying and service members are lying, even though the proof is right here on my phone. It is not fabricated. Nobody is lying. Everybody is — it’s infuriating that they’re not taking accountability, and not having any sort of sympathy for our service members that they claim to scream and shout that they support, when it’s politically, you know, sound for them to use “support our troops, support our troops,” until our troops need support, and now suddenly everyone’s lying, and it’s a fabrication and a misrepresentation? It’s infuriating.

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Hopefully Tomi does well there. He’s a phenomenal player. It’s a just shame about his injury issues.

And that lover?..

I heard somewhere that one of the big sticking points is his image rights. Real demands something like 50% of the money from image rights deals on their players. But Arsenal (and probably most other PL clubs) don’t require any income on player image rights.

Get absolutely wrecked Argentina! Justice finally gets served for all Argentina’s bullshit and dirty shenanigans, and Egypt in particular gets some measure of revenge.

Messi is a great player, but even he can’t carry that bunch of dirty hacks to WC glory.

Massive credit to Spain. They’ve had a great tournament and deserve this WC.

Bullshit.

Just because Argentina happens to be a couple of hundred miles away doesn’t mean they are entitled to the islands, not even if they throw the biggest toddler tantrum about it.

And also, Argentine imperialism is not better than British imperialism. And no, the people living on the islands definitely do deserve a say. And they who want to stay British. They have more of a right to their own self-determination than some petulant brats in Buenos Aires.

Okay. But them parading around with their banner doesn’t mean shit as far as ownership goes.

Also, the Falklands’ residents overwhelmingly want to stay under the administration of Britain. And the Falklands’ were first settled by the British in 1774 - two years before Argentina was even officially founded as a colony, and decades before it gained independence.

The only claim they have to ownership is proximity. And based on numerous territories around the world, that doesn’t mean shit.

An easy way? I guess the term ‘easy’ depends on your expertise with networking, firewalls, etc. Sounds like you and I are at about the same level there. In which case the answer is: no, there’s no easy way from what I can tell. I’ve looked into it and it’s a lot more involved than, say, Plex (because Plex does a bunch of the routing and stuff for you, but at a cost).

Got rather badly humiliated yet again. And long may it continue.