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Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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As I set out before the start of the season, there are going to be a LOT more penalties for handball in the Premier League.

Forget what you used to know. The Premier League now has to toe the line with FIFA. espn.co.uk/football/engli… #MUNCRY
And the same goes for the retake of the Palace penalty. That would not be retaken last season.

But FIFA has insisted that encroaching by the goalkeeper is enforced, even if the offence is millimeters. It doesn't matter how tight it is if the evidence shows an offence. #MUNCRY
Why there will be many more penalties for handball in the Premier League this season. We're on +2 after 11 games. #MUNCRY Image
David De Gea was actually off his line by a clear margin. We'll see a lot closer. Don't get fooled by his glove on the side-on image. #MUNCRY ImageImage
Anyone wondering about the possible penalty for West Ham at Arsenal after what happened to Man United? Well, it simply wasn't handball by Gabriel by the new law. #ARSWHU ImageImage

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I've written many times about the tolerance level in the VAR offside tech many times in the 4 and a half years it's been in place.

It applies to Florian Wirtz's goal for Liverpool against Fulham. #FULLIV

For instance: bbc.co.uk/sport/football…Image
There's clearly arguments for and against a tolerance level, but Premier League clubs wanted it.

They were eager to avoid controversy like this in Germany.

The Bundesliga moved to SAOT at the start of the season and one of the early decisions was a millimetre VAR offside. Image
The Premier League effectively hides the tolerance level by not moving the animation in line with the players.

That makes the animation often hard to understand.

Especially in cases like this.
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Aug 12, 2025
A thread on the Crystal Palace's Europa League demotion, outlining:

1) Why Palace broke the multi-club ownership rules
2) Why Palace's appeal had little chance of success
3) How precedent was key
4) Why the Forest Blind Trust was an irrelevance
5) Contradictions
A lot of the coverage has, understandly, centred around Palace's case to get the ruling overturned.

Yet if you are to understand the story, you need to know the background.

And for that, UEFA's 2023 European Club Finance and Investment Landscape Report is very important.
One of the findings of that report was that 33% of clubs from the "Top Five" leagues form part of wider multi-club structures.

It added that:

“The rise of multi-club investment has the potential to pose a material threat to the integrity of European club competitions”.
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Jul 8, 2025
UEFA has confirmed the seeding rule for the QF and SF of its competitions, including Champions League, for next season.

We knew draws were to be removed for QF and SF, but not the specifics of how the home team in the second legs would be determined.

Good one for Arsenal fans.
Key theory:

Teams ranked 1-4 guaranteed to be at home in the QF.
Teams ranked 1-2 guaranteed to be at home in the SF.

However, if any of 1-4 are knocked out, seeding is not recalculated. Home advantage is effectively tied to the result of the round of 16, and then QF.
Therefore, even though Arsenal (3rd place) played PSG (15th place) in the semifinals, Arsenal would NOT be seeded at play the second leg at home if the same were to happen next season.

PSG have priority in the SF as they took the right off Liverpool (1st) by knocking them out.
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Jun 16, 2025
This does not bode well for Crystal Palace.

Drogheda also won the cup but are excluded from the Conference League due to ownership rules.

Sister club Silkeborg stay in because they finished 7th, with Drogheda (9th) removed.
The deadline for separating associated clubs into a blind trust was changed from June 1 to March 1 as of this year.

That's very harsh for a club such as Palace as they would have needed to do this after the FA Cup fourth round, which seems completely unrealistic.
Drogheda qualified for Europe last November, as cup winners.

But Silkeborg didn't qualify for the Conference League until June 1 through a playoff, three months after the blind trust deadline.

NB: no Irish club will replace Drogheda as there's no time to get a licence.
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May 28, 2025
REVEALED

The six non-English clubs in Pot 1 MUST play TWO Premier League clubs in the Champions League next season.

Real Madrid
Bayern Munich
PSG
Inter Milan
Borussia Dortmund
Barcelona

Impact is on these 6, rather than Prem teams.

HERE'S WHY 👇
espn.com/soccer/story/_…
Last season, Pot 1 teams played eight games in the league phase against English clubs.

They recorded recorded two wins, a draw and five losses.

This season, the 6 must play 12 games to meet the draw constraints caused by 6 Prem teams in the comp + 3 in Pot 1.
Under usual circumstances the composition of the draw pots doesn't matter anymore.

But this year, (for instance) Barcelona and Real Madrid may be forced to play Totttenham or Newcastle as one team from Pot 3 and 4, rather than, say, Slavia Prague or Bodo/Glimt, etc.
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Jan 8, 2025
That should have been a second yellow for Lucas Bergvall.

It wasn't an attempt to stop a promising attack, which wouldn't result in a caution if the move plays out.

It was a reckless tackle, and should have been a booking regardless of the attack. #TOTLIV
Ange Postecoglu is incorrect for three reasons.

1. Bergvall's offence is a reckless tackle, not stopping a promising attack

2. Advantage isn't applied on a second yellow unless it's an IMMEDIATE goal chance

3. Ref didn't play advantage. Said no foul

Ange is correct that there's no yellow for stopping a promising attack (SPA) if the ref plays advantage and the attack plays out.

But the law doesn't allow Stuart Attwell to play advantage even if he did view Bergvall's challenge as SPA. Play must stop and second yellow shown.
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