simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 41mFeel like Iran managing to force a fleet of bombers off a strategically useful base being a massive defeat for the US has been under reported in all of this (if indeed that is what the USA is admitting). 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 1hAnd Britannia Shield sounds like someone I might have spoken to about insuring my Vauxhall Viva. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s just starting to hit me how broken this football season is. Everything (the title, league places, relegation cup winners) is going to have a question mark over it until the punishment is set and the appeals are done. It’s going to be a phoney war and a dreadful watch. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And also of State that doesn’t in any way own the football club. If ever there was a demonstration of why there should be an air gap between states and owning football clubs, this is it. 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I guess our PM weighing in, and Etihad Airways (wholly owned by gov of Abu Dhabi) threatening to sue shows exactly why anything that looks anywhere near state backed ownership should be nowhere near football. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seems unlikely City will have gone digging for any incriminating emails and handed them over. And presumably there’s no evidence of a sudden drop-off in Sponsorship revenue in the accounts. Seems to me entirely likely this carried on beyond the period being prosecuted. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don’t we know because the hacker didn’t get to that? Given City are digging in and saying no wrong doing, presumably whatever was going on carried on? I’m guessing there is no chance the sponsors suddenly started stumping up the full amount. 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So, my other thought having read the PL report on #mcfc - The table that shows each years supposed sponsorship values, and the amounts actually covered by the sponsors, which by the end was £140m vs £11m. What happened in the next year? 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tell me you’ve given up on winning the next election without telling me that you’ve given up on winning the next election. 150
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Quite, it’s a bit like saying we don’t like the offside rule, and preferred football before it had offside, so we paid off some Lino’s to not enforce it for us, and we think that’s fair enough. 011
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Genuinely feel like there’s no ‘fix’ adequate to be honest, whatever happens it’s just a mess looking back and forwards now. Main thing is that owners who do that shouldn’t get to stay owners. 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just read the document and that feels about right in terms of sanctions, but surely they won’t? Will they? 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know this sounds harsh, but it’s the only way to avoid years of individual legal claims, punish those who did the crime, reset the game to pre-cheating levels and not mess up this season. 001
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For me, that is - 81 point penalty (9pts x 9yrs) All titles redistributed 08 - 26. All clubs up 1 place, prize money re-cut, with the clubs required to pay bonuses due to players/coaches. A 9-year ban from the premier league. The execs declared not fit, and required to leave their posts. 2/3 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For me the punishment must - 1. Reflect the magnitude of the offence relative to Everton and Forest. 2. Compensate those who lost out to the cheating in the past. 3. Undo the long term advantage City gained from the foundations the cheating built. 4. Punish the execs responsible. 1/3 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My enemy’s enemy is my friend. A dysfunction of a politics that has become too partisan. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I don’t see how the owners can be considered fit and proper persons (not for the initial offences, more for the relentless denials). I think they should be forced to sell the club alongside the sport sanctions you mentioned. Not sure how you begin to compensate those who lost out to it though. 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We should have put up a fence around the village isolating them from the rest of the UK, cut the water, gas and electric and said ‘on you go then’. Numpties 011
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fair to say that was a masterclass from the officials. Two examples of ‘minor violent conduct’. One gets a red, the other gets nothing. Then they can’t implement their own offside rule. What a mess modern football is. 001
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Emotionally, I’m with you. But if we want to say they should be arrested, we should be stating what for. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Not on Sky yet either. Assume it’s the usual TV Channel envy problem. 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I know there is no chance this will happen as it’s in the ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’ category, but how about a progressive tax on political donations? (First 10k untaxed, 10k-100k 30%, 100k - 1m 60%, 1m+ 90%?). 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026This is the key point. A disproportionate agenda driven pile-on is more of a distinguishing feature than the humiliation, which I don’t think is the aim (the human is treated as irrelevant). 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026And some not so right wing types too. 120
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026That’s on anyone who felt like they were entitled to comment. You didn’t have to. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Whah whah whah - Nigel Farage 2026. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Never ceases to amaze me how quickly the ‘invisible hand’ free market true believers fold into ‘well it’s all pointless then isn’t it’ in the face of a 1% tax increase. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Feel free to decline your treatment, and off you pop I say. 1150
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Someone should set up a country declaring all people are equal with a constitution designed to protect everyone’s rights I guess. 140
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Less of “Chelsea’s law” and political campaigns set up as memorials on the rolling news media please. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I’m sympathetic to the suffering of victims relatives, but a parade of them saying the punishment isn’t enough is both understandable from their point of view but unhelpful in the broader context. If you lose someone you love to a violent crime, no punishment is enough I imagine. Less of this, and 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I was thinking of Vietnam when he put his body count post out last week. It’s actually the ‘no path to a win’ that causes the real problem. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Got it, that makes more sense, Although 12bn is the Stamp Duty take for a single year. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’m behind the argument that immigration is a net economic good, but I am struggling to make this add up. Isn’t that £100,000k to the treasury for each immigrant? Sounds high. 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026And also gave Starmer a destabilising shove then gets the gig as chancellor after his World Cup break. This needs studying. 081
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The Argies are going to win this on pens aren’t they? 010
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Definitely didn’t shin the comment on the half time show. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Fortune favours the brave. Always failing with the handbrake on. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Of course they are. If the ‘policy’ is no nukes ever, and you decide the way to do it is ‘other means’ then it’s a forever war by definition. 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I guess it’s fair to say we can consign anything Farage said about the importance of a sovereign parliament to the bin. 001
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Indeed. Leave it to him and The Count. The joke writes itself. 040
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026How does a Reform voting opera singer warm up? Me me me me me! 061
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Step down until the run up to the next election to get out of the spotlight. Grab another seat then if things are looking positive? 000
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I think I’d be more comfortable saying this to Lazar Markovich than Big Dunc. 100
simonlangton.bsky.social @simonlangton.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Little bit saddened the remaining UEFA teams aren’t discussing an immediate boycott unless the Balogun decision isn’t put back as it should be. 000
