Sky Sports News on Baines 'dive'

[Bignev1]

Iterating a previous poster's point, Sky do NOT want Everton in the top 4. Their preference order is Man U, Liverpool, Spurs....then Newcastle, then us.

Global fan base (subscriptions) is what it is all about. I can't blame them for that...everything these days is about money

They'd rather have arsenal and probably Chelsea than spurs and newcastle

 

[PITA]

They'd rather have arsenal and probably Chelsea than spurs and newcastle

I think that he meant Sky's batting order for 4th on the assumption that Arsenal, Chelsea and City have the top 3 tied up.

 

[lmurkder]

Eventually when things settle you'll see BT take a shine to us.

We just need to get in the champions league

 

[Jeff Jones]

Iterating a previous poster's point, Sky do NOT want Everton in the top 4. Their preference order is Man U, Liverpool, Spurs....then Newcastle, then us.

Global fan base (subscriptions) is what it is all about. I can't blame them for that...everything these days is about money

I find it hard to believe that Newcastle would attract a bigger viewing audience than Everton.

 

[Jeff Jones]

It was interesting to see that Phil Neville 'dive' again on page 3. I thought at the time, and I still say that Agger pushed him fair and square in the back with his left hand and maybe just a bit with his right into Neville's right shoulder. It may be called going down easily, but there was definitely fairly solid contact. No comparison to some of Luis' efforts.

As for the Baines controversy, I would've liked to see it from a different angle before I passed judgement. On what we've seen, I'd have to give Leighton the benefit of the doubt. It looks as though Ried did make contact with his shoulder - can't be sure - but if he did it was a foul.