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  1. Some definitely are. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but the rehab programme he's been put in is 8 months long isn't it? So it would be an 8 month ban for a first offence rather than 10 months, based on what you're saying. Many would say you're an addict for life and might always need outside assistance, too, so that might work out pretty badly for some players. Again, this isn't about someone doing something legal and fun. It's about doing something in the neighborhood of insider trading or fraud. The kind of thing that can get you blackmailed into fixing games etc. bearing in mind the people taking your bets know they've compromised you. That's why it's a killer. I'm perfectly open to ideas around an amnesty for players who haven't been caught yet and come forwards etc. It's not about hang em and flog em. But a lot of people aren't understanding how close to the edge this kind of phenomenon can take things if it isn't stringently policed.
  2. Still think it's silly to try and minimise the offence of gambling on your own business. Opens a massive window to corruption that could kill the sport. If you lose the trust you risk everything. A slap on the wrist isn't enough, ill or not.
  3. Well, the timing of him seemingly stopping betting and being charged implies he wasn't actively aware he was about to get done when he came here and just joined us to save Milan taking the hit. So we've got that going for us...
  4. Apparently the takeover was a bruising experience for him.
  5. I imagine him as our guardian angel. Ashley was always destined to be an arsehole, but certainly at the time Mort ending his sabbatical from Freshfields and Llambias replacing him felt like a massive sliding doors moment.
  6. Yes and no. You'd have to factor in things like the structure of those clubs in comparison to ours, the strength of the wider staff, where the club was historically and tons more. There's loads of room for charlatans to prosper and good people to be overlooked. Honestly, in another dimension I could see Pardew developing a public reputation as a good DOF through pure bullshit and good luck.
  7. He was quietly involved in supporting Staveley and PIF in the takeover, wasn't he? Never heard anything but good about him.
  8. Agreed. I certainly hope so. You might even say 'best in class'.
  9. I think it's funny you've been swayed by a 4 paragraph puff piece, but you are basically right about this. Almost none of us have a clue who would actually be good for this role. We don't even really know what the role is, given DOFs are are still an evolving concept. We're mostly basing everything on 'he sounds good' and 'they've done well lately'. Maldini does sound sexy as fuck though. Surely that would be enough to bring @Milanista back.
  10. They said beforehand that there'd be none of the usual media stuff this time around. Idea being to focus on the fundamentals.
  11. Can see this one defining Howe's future. We need to not look listless and disorderly. Hope we take them apart.
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    Papiss Cissé

    Don't remember it, but this is ringing bells for the mental comment...
  13. I'd happily have it become an iconic number for us. Save and use it for our best CM talents. Maybe Miley one day.
  14. Was waiting for him to start talking about race. Looks like he's played a stupid game and won a stupid prize.
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    Anthony Gordon

    Could almost do with a tincy piece of it back
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