General Premier League Thread 2025/2026 - See Post #1 for Mod Note

it’s not really drifting along, it’s being resolved. It’s just takes time and can’t be rushed and that isn’t the premier leagues fault. People just need to be patient basically.

City has clearly made every effort to frustrate and delay the process. The Premier League's failure to bring them to account is a stain on the league's brand and standing. If City do go on to win the league, it will be (rightly, imo) shrouded in conversation around the charges. So yes, legal processes can take time, and the outcome needs to be airtight. But it is absolutely fair to say that the league is failing in its endeavour here. The timeline around a legal process is part of the legal wrangling - the league is "losing" on this point, which seems a fair thing to say.

Most football fans are driven by tribalism. There are very few adult City fans about, but plenty of Arsenal fans. If Arsenal win/lose, there are slags to be thrown around. If City wins, everyone can brand them as cheats and move on. It was the very same experience for Liverpool fans the last few years - it is what it is.

Spurs finished 17th last year why would it such a shock to finish one place lower.

There’s no real solution to legal processes taking a long time. The premier league’s integrity maybe is taking a hit with the wait but they brought a case that was clearly going to be extremely expensive against a group for whom money is no concern so that’s to their credit .

At the end of the day, lives aren’t at stake. Maybe just relax a bit and be patient. There’s more important things in the world.

Nobody really cares about City winning because it feels very artificial, and there are very few fans about to celebrate it. I would probably prefer to see Arsenal winning it but really, as a neutral they are not an easy team to get behind. The games I’ve seen them in, by and large, have been an awful watch(yesterday being the exception which was a pleasant surprise), attritional affairs dominated by set pieces and antics that skirt the laws of the game.

So I don’t like either of them. City because they’re bad for the game of football and Arsenal because they’re bad for football as a spectacle. I’m not rooting for either, the only thing left in the league this year I find any way interesting is seeing if Spurs actually get relegated now that the CL places look almost sewn up.

Nobody wants Arteta to win it. Although it would be funny to see City mess it up now.

If West Ham don’t beat palace tonight then they’re probably gone - only other fixture I could see them getting points out of is an already safe Leeds on the last day.

Spurs could get wins against Wolves, Leeds and Everton if they play like they did against Brighton.

Do Spurs not have six points since the start of January, all draws? They'd want to start turning up if they want to actually win a game.

I stand by the statement a lot can change in 20/30 years.

That complex can be rebranded at any stage, so it having a City badge on it currently doesn't mean much.

In a couple of generation's time nobody will care about how City got their titles, just that they have them.

Apathy to them winning is what they want, that's why sports washing works.

The only way to combat it is to strip them of titles if they cheated the rules, otherwise they remain there forever and it's all worth it

I hope they collapse this season and I'm no Arsenal fan. Was even happy with Real Madrid knocking them out a few weeks ago

Well yes I think it would. Not a shock on sporting merit but a shock that a club their size go down, and that they were warned last year and didn't rectify it.

it’s also ironic that Gary Neville is one of the strongest critics of the premier league over the lack of a binding decision from the judiciary when he tried to threaten the premier league by organizing the withdrawal of man United’s England players from international duty over their banning of Rio Ferdinand and his missed doping test