He definitely gambled, but my understanding is that the club always thought PSR would be a slap on the wrist rather than the subsequent points deductions. The club were incompetent in assuming this but at the same time there was nothing clear from the PL. Who are either also incompetent or deliberately left it open to interpretation.
The club 100% knew a points deduction was a risk and thats what happened.
Always a risk, so they're ultimately to blame. But it wasn't nailed on as there was nothing set out by the PL and no precedent. They had hoped it would be a fine.
I was involved in the meeting last night, it wasnt stated that people were 'spitting' on the stones, but was brought up about the amount of chewing gum on the stones. The club provide wheelchairs for people with accesibilty issues, and 50% of these have gone missing.
That was the point of not setting a fixed punishment - clubs will now price it into the equation going forward and we'll end up back with an uncontrolled financial arms race.
Yeah, all weird, but if you keep going through it, he very specifically refers to a chain where the money coming from Usmanov is "Russian gangster money". The press might just use the search bar to look up UK royalty and politicians, but I looked up our owners and potential owners obviously. Happily, no Friedkins are mentioned at all!
And people want TFG to spend more and more millions on this ground to make it look like a council house during the world cup. Why would they, when they know that anything not bolted down will be stolen, and everything that is bolted down will be spat/drawn on?
