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Its the FA Cup quarter finals and some Premier League games on this weekend.

FA Cup-Saturday.

Norwich v Man United (5.30 BBC)

Sunday.

Sheffield United v Arsenal (1pm BT)
Leicester v Chelsea (4pm BT)
Newcastle v Man City (6.30 BT)

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Premier League-Saturday.

Aston Villa v Wolves (12.30 BT)

Sunday.

Watford v Southampton (4.30 Sky)

Monday night.

Crystal Palace v Burnley (8pm Amazon Prime)

There are seven league games on in mid week next week.
 
Man United, Arsenal and Chelsea all through to the FA Cup semi finals, United needed extra time to beat Norwich 2-1 yesterday and Arsenal beat Sheffield United 2-1 with Chelsea just beating Leicester 1-0, Newcastle v Man City is the last QF to come and that kicks of in half an hour, the semi final draw will take place during half time of that match.

Southampton currently 0-1 up v Watford in the only league game of the day with about 20 minutes left.

Edit, now 0-2 to Southampton.
 
Inter Milan has a goalkeeper called Tommaso Berni. He's been at the club six years. He has never played a single minute of a single game for Inter, but yesterday received his second red card for the club - and actually the second this season.

That must surely set a record for the worst disciplinary history ever.
 
Burnley beat Palace 0-1 tonight thanks to a Ben Mee goal.

And with that here are the games for the next few days.

Tuesday night.

Brighton v Man United (8.15 Sky/Pick)

Wednesday night.

Arsenal v Norwich (6pm BT)
Bournemouth v Newcastle (6pm Sky/Pick)
Everton v Leicester (6pm Sky)
West Ham v Chelsea (8.15)

Thursday night.

Man City v Liverpool (8.15 Sky)
Sheffield United v Tottenham (6pm Sky)

The latest round of coronavirus testing has happened and there was one positive test out of 2,250.

The city of Leicester will remain in lock-down after a surge of cases in the last few weeks, I don't know what that will mean for Football in the area, Leicester still have three home games left.
 
United beat Brighton 0-3 with a great performance, Bruno Fernandes got two goals and the man of the match with Mason Greenwood getting the other goal.

That's 14 games unbeaten in all comps now, and two points behind Chelsea who still have to play West Ham tomorrow, Champions League Football is a must next season and hopefully we get it as we have been playing some fantastic stuff lately (before and after the long break!) it feels like we are getting back to our best.
 
Arsenal 4-0 Norwich
Bournemouth 1-4 Newcastle
Everton 2-1 Leicester
West Ham 3-2 Chelsea

Race for the top four is now wide open following Leicester and Chelsea defeats. Leicester stay in third on 55 points, Chelsea in fourth on 54, Man United in fifth on 52 and Wolves in sixth on 52.

The West Ham game had pretty much everything. VAR drama, brilliant goals, rubbish defending and a late winner for West Ham who give their survival hope a massive boost, declines for Leicester and Bournemouth both continue and Bournemouth are now in deep trouble.
 
A certain 38 year old scored a stunner in yesterday's AC Milan-SPAL match. And no, it wasn't Ibra...

 
Sheffield United 3-1 Tottenham
Man City 4-0 Liverpool

Some terrible defending by Spurs for two of the United goals and we also had probably one of the worst VAR decisions yet, A Kane goal was disallowed after Lucas Moura was judged to have handled the ball whilst going to the ground after being fouled in the build up, that would've put Spurs 1-0 up and could've changed the game.

City just took Liverpool apart, it was the strongest possible Liverpool team as well so no rotated side, the Liverpool players honestly looked like they spent the week on the lash (and they probably have!) A De Bruyne penalty, Foden, Sterling and an Ox-Chamberlain own goal with the goals, Liverpool were in the game and had some good chances but City wanted it more.
 
Here are this weekends games.

Saturday.

Norwich v Brighton (12.30 BT)
Leicester v Crystal Palace (3pm Sky)
Man United v Bournemouth (3pm BT)
Wolves v Arsenal (5.30 Sky)
Chelsea v Watford (8pm Sky)

Sunday.

Burnley v Sheffield United (12pm Sky)
Newcastle v West Ham (2.15 Sky)
Liverpool v Aston Villa (4.30 Sky)
Southampton v Man City (7pm BBC)

Monday.

Tottenham v Everton (8pm Sky)

Every game is on TV so I decided to post them in chronological order rather than alphabetical. Some big games at both ends of the table this weekend.

Leroy Sane has completed his move from Man City to Bayern Munich for a fee of £54.8 million.
 
Outside of Moneyball, Wigan Athletic have been placed into administration just four weeks after being sold to a new owner.

It's quite an extraordinary sequence of events that the EFL apparently has full knowledge of but has taken no steps to prevent.

Until June, Wigan was owned by International Entertainment Corporation (IEC), a gambling brand owned by professional poker player Stanley Choi. In June, IEC sold Wigan to Next Leader Fund (NLF), a company set up in January 2020, with the majority shareholder being... Stanley Choi.

NLF took £28m loan to buy Wigan. It took the loan from... IEC. A week ago, Choi apparently sold £17m of his shares to a mystery person called Au Yeung Wai Kay who nobody seems to know anything about, but who became the majority shareholder of NLF. Then the administrators were called in.

That creates a situation whereby either Wigan are relegated and then docked 12pt to start the League One season or docked 12pt from the Championship season final results and then relegated as a consequence.

Enter Rick Parry, EFL chairman, caught on video telling a random that "There are rumours that there is a bet in the Philippines on them being relegated, because the previous owner has gambling interests in the Philippines".

Gambling interests like the shirt sponsor, KB88 - based in the Philippines - and for whom the current chairman Darren Royle used to work?


IEC wasn't exactly on the level in the first place - it owned one casino, paid money into Wigan on a hand-to-mouth basis, and reportedly used the club to disguise losses from IEC.

It rather looks like Choi has set up a fake company with a fake owner, sold his shares to himself and given himself a loan, then bought the club from himself and "disappeared" to leave the club in administration and relegated in order to make millions betting on its relegation...


... all as approved by the EFL four weeks ago.
 
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Outside of Moneyball, Wigan Athletic have been placed into administration just four weeks after being sold to a new owner.

It's quite an extraordinary sequence of events that the EFL apparently has full knowledge of but has taken no steps to prevent.

Until June, Wigan was owned by International Entertainment Corporation (IEC), a gambling brand owned by professional poker player Stanley Choi. In June, IEC sold Wigan to Next Leader Fund (NLF), a company set up in January 2020, with the majority shareholder being... Stanley Choi.

NLF took £28m loan to buy Wigan. It took the loan from... IEC. A week ago, Choi apparently sold £17m of his shares to a mystery person called Au Yeung Wai Kay who nobody seems to know anything about, but who became the majority shareholder of NLF. Then the administrators were called in.

That creates a situation whereby either Wigan are relegated and then docked 12pt to start the League One season or docked 12pt from the Championship season final results and then relegated as a consequence.

Enter Rick Parry, EFL chairman, caught on video telling a random that "There are rumours that there is a bet in the Philippines on them being relegated, because the previous owner has gambling interests in the Philippines".

Gambling interests like the shirt sponsor, KB88 - based in the Philippines - and for whom the current chairman Darren Royle used to work?


IEC wasn't exactly on the level in the first place - it owned one casino, paid money into Wigan on a hand-to-mouth basis, and reportedly used the club to disguise losses from IEC.

It rather looks like Choi has set up a fake company with a fake owner, sold his shares to himself and given himself a loan, then bought the club from himself and "disappeared" to leave the club in administration and relegated in order to make millions betting on its relegation...


... all as approved by the EFL four weeks ago.
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There is an article about this on the BBC Sport site as well.

Could not believe what I was reading and I'm staggered that this has been allowed to happen.
 
United looked great this morning in a 5-2 thumping of Bournemouth. Mason Greenwood with 2 goals and one was an absolute screamer of a shot.

Arsenal with a big 0-2 win away at Wolves. Saka (who just signed a long term contract earlier this week) with a goal and Lacazette added one late.

Chelsea v. Watford about to start now.
 
It was another good performance from United but we were a bit shaky at the back, 16 games unbeaten though and another man of the match for Bruno Fernandes, Greenwood looks a special player no doubt.

Jamie Vardy scored his 100th PL goal during Leicester's 3-0 win over Palace.

Chelsea won 3-0 over Watford and are now back into fourth after United briefly overtook them.
 
Burnley 1-1 Sheffield United
Newcastle 2-2 West Ham
Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa

Not a lot to shout about so far today.

Didn't see the first two games because I was watching the Swansea game (@Famine :sly:) and the Grand Prix, Tarkowski and Egan got the goals in the Burnley game and Antonio, Soucek, Almiron and Shelvey got the goals in the Newcastle game.

Liverpool v Villa was probably the most boring game I have seen since the restart, Mane and Curtis Jones go the goals for Liverpool in the second half but the first half was terrible, result is tough on Villa as they were in the game.

Southampton v City still to come.
 
Yeah that Liverpool game was incredibly boring. Just glad for the win.

Ederson gets caught out too far from his goal and allows Che Adams to ping one from about 45 yards and Southampton hangs on to get a good 1-0 win.
 
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Liverpool v Villa was probably the most boring game I have seen since the restart, Mane and Curtis Jones go the goals for Liverpool in the second half but the first half was terrible, result is tough on Villa as they were in the game.
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The Everton v Liverpool game was pretty bad too. :rolleyes: There's been something else really bad, but I can't recall it. :confused: Deleted from my memory obviously. ;) :lol:
 
Spurs 1-0 Everton, Lo Celso strike deflected of Michael Keane and into the net for an own goal in the first half, second half was pretty dire but there was actually a tussle between Spurs team-mates Lloris and Son at half time and they had to be separated!

Here are the games for the next few days.

Tuesday.

Crystal Palace v Chelsea (6pm Sky)
Watford v Norwich (6pm Sky/Pick)
Arsenal v Leicester (8.15 Sky)

Wednesday.

Man City v Newcastle (6pm BT)
Sheffield United v Wolves (6pm Sky)
West Ham v Burnley (6pm BT)
Brighton v Liverpool (8.15 Sky)

Thursday.

Bournemouth v Tottenham (6pm Sky/Pick)
Everton v Southampton (6pm Amazon Prime)
Aston Villa v Man United (8.15 Sky)
 
I don't want to be too bold with my predictions but i think Juventus may just about win the one team abyss league.

 
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Watford 2-1 Norwich
Crystal Palace 2-3 Chelsea
Arsenal 1-1 Leicester

Another nail in the Premier League coffin for Norwich, Danny Welbeck scored a great overhead kick for Watford. Tammy Abraham came off the bench to score the winner in a five-goal thriller, Wilfried Zaha scored a twenty-yard screamer as well. Arsenal dominated the first half and should have been at least three-nil up if it wasn't for Schmeichel, Nketiah got sent off for a high tackle which was very debatable as to whether it was intentional or not, VAR had a look and the ref went to watch it on the pitch-side screen and then he overturned the initial yellow into a red, Nketiah had only just come on and didn't even touch the ball. Aubameyang and Vardy go the goals in that one.
 
I watched all the games. I thought the Crystal v Chel$ki and Watford v Norwich games were the better games than the late game. Welbeck scored a great overhead kick. 👍 I didn't even realise he was playing for Watford which says something about hi career post Man Utd. :rolleyes:

After the first two games the Arsenal v Leicester games a bit of a let down. Glad Vardy got a goal though for my Fantasy Football team. ;) :)
 
Eric Dier has been banned for four matches and been fined £40k for going into the crowd to confront a fan after the Tottenham-Norwich FA Cup which Tottenham lost on penalties on the 4th March.

This has been met with criticism that it too harsh and I also think its too harsh, he went into the crowd to confront a 'fan' who was abusing his brother who was watching the game so he was sticking up for his family, there is also the length of time that the FA came to this decision which was 127 days after the incident, also a few weeks ago Arsenal's Matteo Guendouzi put his hand on Brighton's Neal Maupay and it was not punished when it should've been (last week Mourinho was asked about the Dier punishment and he said he didn't expect one as the Guendouzi/Maupay incident went unpunished)
Finally the so called 'fan' has expressed his remorse and said that Dier didn't threaten him.
 
I saw most of Manchester City running over Newcastle United today. I think I was watching up to about the 24th Minute, Man. City up 2-0 around that point. They'd tack on three more goals to win 5-0. So a good day for a Manchester City fan; not so much for a Newcastle United fan. When I poked around Twitter, I read Man. City became the first Premier League team in history to have five players score 10+ goals in a single season (Source: Bleacher Report Football). Very cool accomplishment, I'd say.
 
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