The rules were changed in response to the Haidara challenge funnily enough.

That hasn’t been true for a few years. If a refereeing team has been deemed not to have fully assessed an incident involving a ‘coming together of players’ or an incident of violent conduct or an off-the-ball incident the FA can retrospectively punish. This tackle would fall into the first category.

re 2: The FA can retroactively discipline people however much they want to, they just choose not to as they don’t want to undermine their refs.

No idea what the easiest way to do it is but I used a result predictor tool and went back over the whole of this season. I managed to get 24 teams with winning records. This is probably mathematically the best you can do as you need 1 whipping boy in each division but I’m all ears if anyone can do better.

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Don’t mind me, thought the accident was in France. Ignore this reply.

Iceland and Wales would’ve almost certainly qualified for the Euros even if it would’ve been a 16 team tournament. And Euro 2016 was beset by an awful group stage where nobody really bothered going for it as it was possible to go through with 3 points.

There probably isn’t any money involved in the terms of fees paid. The loanee will be paid by the loan club per appearance.

It did fuck with his concentration undoubtedly as he went on to lose the set. But by that point he was so far ahead and had effectively broken Anderson’s spirit by playing so well. So even if it did mess him up it only delayed his coronation by about 15 minutes.

Here in the uk if you shoot someone 8x with 7 of those shots being in the back you’re looking at a murder conviction. So I’m genuinely interested as to how you think he got railroaded. I’ll admit that 40yrs for a road rage killing is quite steep but fuck me how is this even manslaughter?

Superga would be the closest precedent to that possible scenario.

A little bit of context.