Your first sentence is right.

Being crass and cruel toward competitors that you’ve soundly outclassed is wrong.

This is next level Trump-style willful stupidity, like when he says he won’t fire Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act because “she’s very loyal.”

If we needed proof that the US team are just total fucking assholes, here it is. Guaranteed every other team is like “Fuck those guys.”

For the rules aspect, one could argue that Vettel went afoul in 2 ways, first, he left the track (all 4 wheels over the line) to gain an advantage (stay in the lead). His mistake wasn’t leaving the track, it was attempting to carry too much speed and/or braking too late, had he not done that, Hamilton would have…

“ I’m beginning to suspect the reason I enjoy watching F1 isn’t the cars or the speed, but because they’re all basically the champions at being competitive assholes and I identify”

They wouldve had to justify it either way, to either ferrari fans or mercedes fans. 

Nope; it should have been done a while ago.

The stadiums are designed to distract you no matter what age you are, even when players are at-bat. Vendors, stuff on the video boards, food and drink...the teams/orgs themselves are doing what they can to keep you from paying full attention.

And nevermind how fucking fast…

You’re talking about the same Ajax that just knocked Real Madrid out of the Champions’ League (in a not-particularly-close fashion) and is going to make upwards of $200M this offseason just from selling a few of the players who were worth nothing last year? Seems like they’ve figured out how to make a pretty…

The point of FFP was supposed to be to prevent clubs that were just recently bought by nouveau wealth spending themselves way past what they could afford, incurring massive debts, and then finding themselves in administration or a decade of painful recovery when the new owner either ran out of money or bailed. This…

FFP was instituted to stop clubs like Atletico, Napoli, PSG, Chelsea, Benfica, Dortmund, Leeds, Fiorentina, Lazio, Roma, Parma etc. from going bankrupt, which all either did or nearly did. It has nothing to do with protecting “old-class rich clubs”.

It’s also weird as those old teams have been punished before as well, Barcelona most recently by FIFA. And what Man City did here is pretty bad, so saying it shouldn’t matter because.... money? is a weird stance.

People need to keep in mind that FFP was instituted not to keep out the nouveau riche but mainly to stop clubs from spending themselves into insane bankruptcy but it has evolved to look like the former to people who don’t know any better and is now serving the two purposes congruently - if these royal families one…

So the rules are unfair, Man City still broke them by lying, forging documents and acting above the rules. I have no sympathy for them.

I generally have pretty good reading comprehension, but I cannot figure out why this post, no matter how much it equivocates, seems to be defending Manchester City.

I have to admit that I do actually agree with the principle of the FFP approach, even if I think it is not executed really well. As much as it is easy to argue that if a club has money, it should be able to use it, but the problem becomes that having that money is usually the reason they get more money. Barcelona and…

Sure, and everyone else is now equipped to make an informed decision about giving the guy any money, now that his opinions are known. 

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