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Quite the finish to the Bournemouth Tottenham match. Brilliant goal by the underdogs to pull it out at the finish.
Newcastle goes up 3-0 against Tottenham in the first 9 minutes.
5 - 0 at halftime. Spurs players seem to have gone on strike against interim-coach Stellini. Team is a shambles.
Which is where Daniel Levy is due sympathy. City and Newcastle have spent astutely. There has been little waste. But the great advantage in effect limitless wealth offers is that clubs can afford to make mistakes. A season outside the Champions League does not have a devastating impact on spending.Levy has done the best thing a non-state-backed club can do, which is to build probably the best club stadium in the country, a solid generator of revenue (unless there’s a pandemic, the timing of which was highly unfortunate for Tottenham).
Nice goal by Benteke tonight:https://twitter.com/dcunited/status/1652483101753311239?s=61&t=b6K8m7mnCl3hI8EuxEn4og
Tod Boehly and Mark Walter, investment bankers and part-owners of the Dodgers, have brought chaos and silliness to Chelsea. Boehly has acted as his own general manager, bringing the exact opposite of The Dodger Way to Chelsea, while spending about $700 million to bring in new players. All of them stars someplace else. The team is on its fourth field manager this season, but he says he has learned a lot and "will get this right" next season. Boehly must have been frustrated because the Dodgers are run by Stan Kasten, Andrew Friedman, and many, many not-so-famous staff up and down the organization. He has certainly shown the world that a professional sports organization can be run by wealthy amateurs, right?Chelsea is now in 12th place, behind Crystal Palace, and they have lost the last four games.https://www.google.com/search?q=premier+league+standings&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS1014US1014&oq=premier+league+standings&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i131i433i512j0i433i512j0i131i433i512j0i512l6.5991j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#sie=lg;/g/11pz7zbpnb;2;/m/02_tc;st;fp;1;;;
It’s all the fault of the American for not being better.
Or for not hiring an experience team president and general manager, like Stan Kasten and Andrew Friedman at Boehly's Dodgers. (Well, Boehly and eight or ten others own the LAD...). What a great thing for other teams if Boehly could run the Dodgers the way he runs Chelsea!
MLS players investigated for taking money from gamblers. For instance, Max Alves has been suspended by the Colorado Rapids for taking $12,000 to draw a yellow card.https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/05/11/max-alves-colorado-rapids-gambling/
It looks like hitting a bowling ball with a fly swatter as pro sports seems busy chasing bottom dollars while immersing the sport in that, sticking it on jerseys, sticking it in left field at Nats park, and so forth.
Arsenal really choked away the Premiere League title. Didn’t realize Newcastle was having such a good year. Looks like they have a good shot at the Champions League. Don’t recall them finishing so high in recent years?
They're owned by the Saudis now. Expect them to jump up the same way that Man City did when UAE bought them.
I don’t keep up with that stuff. I’m always curious how soem teams continue to get support from their fans when they don’t have the $ to contend.
Regular season isn't all that's at stake and there is still relegation. If you're a fan of a mid tier premiere league team, you can cheer when they avoid relegation, root for them in the FA cup and the league cup. Root for them to make the champions league or the Europa league and then root for them there. Compare that to a fan of a middling MLB team- we basically have nothing to cheer for or root against. There is almost no chance we'll make the playoffs, no danger of relegation, and no other leagues or cups for the team to compete in.
