Chelsea? Forest? Someone get me my fainting couch.
Full Disclosure: Crystal Palace’s front-of-shirt sponsor for the majority of this decade-plus run in the EPL has been a gambling company. I hate it, and it causes me not to buy club shirts most years. Until I bought last year’s now legendary shirt, my previous shirt was the non-gambling “Cinch” sponsored shirt.
7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.
8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.
…and in the poker case:
12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the “quarterback” — then sent that information to someone at the table.
13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.
Palace dominating the game and Mateta had a miss early on that is arguably worse than the last minute one on Sunday.
Then the teenager Canvot - playing in place of a resting Richards - played a no-look backpass straight to a Larnaca striker who still had work to do but lashed home an impressive finish.
Glasner has gone to a 4-4-2, which is interesting.
I seem to remember someone saying after some chaotic Liverpool defending in the Community Shield that they were going to have to win games 4-3 if they carry on like that.
[Dislocates shoulder patting himself on the back]
They spent half-a-billion (with a “buh”) this summer, but stuck on £35 million for Guéhi when they could have had him in July for £40 million. They deserve this because they asked for it.
I fell asleep a bit after halftime. This match and the Arsenal match at Anfield, they setup and played so conservative and unwilling to try anything out of fear of getting caught on the counter it was boring to watch.
Oh well, the goal is to in the league for the first time in decades, and to that end they are in great position. The Arsenal D has a chance to go down as the best In Premier league history.
Yeah. It was a shit game decided by a moment of individual brilliance by Eze (of course). Neither side looked like scoring otherwise.
There was an assist from the referee who completely ignored a probable red card when Mateta turned Gabriel halfway into Arsenal’s half and was hauled down. Ref just watched like he was in a trance and let play go on. Just bizarre.
Comms on the replay said “that’s a foul” and you could almost hear how hard he shrugged.
Over an extended sample size, the Chiefs get more flags thrown against opponents than anyone else consistently, and it gets more exaggerated in the playoffs.
It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are twelfth!
Palace at Liverpool in the Carabao Cup today (1:45pm CDT on Paramount+), which is the 4th most important competition for either club (out of 4). Heavy squad rotation expected, but both clubs have been having a wobble after strong starts to the season so it’s possible that one or both may put out a stronger side than they would otherwise.
Palace’s second string players are definitely lesser talents than Liverpool’s. If Palace find a way to win then that means we will play a midweek game every week until the end of the year, which will stretch our thin squad even thinner.
So, in a way, winning is losing and losing is winning. It’s a very weird time to be a Palace fan.
We played them on the last day of last season, in the “season opening” Community Shield and already once in the EPL this season. Excluding the offseason, it pretty much is once a week.
The record is
EPL: 2-2
CS: 2-2, Palace wins on penalties
EPL: 2-1, thanks to Gravenberch’s back foot and Frimpong running away from Nketiah deep, deep, deeeeeep into time added on.