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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

Saint Domingo said:
Advancement in the game is all well and good but it’s the same for all teams surely?

In any sport, the top level should see a tiny margin between competitors who all have access to the same resources and employ the best people. Records should slowly creep upwards as incremental improvements are made over time to the game as a whole.

I doubt very much that there is much difference in training facilities, diet, conditioning, data analytics, etc. between the PL clubs who have been in the league a long time. There certainly won’t be between United and Liverpool for example.

You can either blindly accept the beauty of sport and truly believe things like team sky cycling were just really clever, or all Jamaican sprinters of the same generation were super fast (when not many had been before), or truly believe that after years of the PL’s best sides struggling to break the 90 points totals that two sides come along at exactly the same time and break it 5 seasons in a row between them.

Some things can be explained by good tactics, good recruitment etc. but we’ve had all these things before. I just don’t buy that somehow Guardiola and Klopp are just so brilliant that they’ve unlocked the secret to consistency that somehow eluded every other manager in the history of the game.
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Ok, so if it is some form of doping which is fair game enough to pass the premier leagues checks as we know off then why don’t Everton or other teams use them? Or do Liverpool just have better pharmacists to track them down?
 

Some substances banned by WADA are apparently not banned by the English FA according to the Mail arricle the other day. Quite strange how "performance enhancing drugs" dont appear to concern the FA

They need to ban it all or allow it all. Not a level competition once you start giving exemptions. If multiple exemptions are at the one club, this should be setting of alarm bells

From the Mail
The dozen cases of performance-enhancing drugs included one positive test for an amphetamine and three findings of triamcinolone, the corticosteroid that Sir Bradley Wiggins used to treat hay fever before his Tour de France victory.

The Premier League cases also included four positives for the stimulant Ritalin and one for the testosterone booster Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG), a hormone often abused in cycling and mixed martial arts.
 
Saint Domingo said:
or truly believe that after years of the PL’s best sides struggling to break the 90 points totals that two sides come along at exactly the same time and break it 5 seasons in a row between them.
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With the exception of those 2, the quality of the league is absolutely atrocious.

Every other team has been in turmoil; Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs and Utd have all changed managers in the last 5 years; poor recruitment etc etc

Both City and the RS wouldn’t have been able to dominate so easily 15 years ago when the quality was a lot higher.

That’s the reason why
 

Fair enough. Didn't check. I see he joined 4 years ago, probably with honourable intentions. There are a fair few imposters at the minute so, and I hold my hands up here, l leapt to a hasty conclusion. Feel absolutely terrible now ?
 

mahermi1 said:
So you don't mind bending the rules to give your team an advantage then ? Isn't that just a different way of cheating ?
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Ok so if the rules are there to be bent without punishment, who’s worse off the one bending them or the one not taking advantage while loosing out to those who do? Keep in mind I don’t believe any rules are being bent just hypothetically.
 

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