Weaponized Cum posted:

happy international women's day to you too

African AIDS cum posted:

I don't think a single person actually was offended by it, just more stupid mindless virtue signaling clickbait bullshit

blue footed boobie posted:

Huh?

Der Shovel posted:

His lawyer is claiming the cocaine ended up in his system "by accident" and through some way they just can't explain.

Well I guess you gotta at least TRY.

quote:

In May 2009, Gasquet was provisionally suspended after testing positive for cocaine. Traces of the drug were found in his urine sample.[6] In July 2009, he was cleared to return to competitive tennis after a tribunal found that "the cocaine entered his system through inadvertent contamination in a nightclub". Gasquet suggested that the cocaine entered his system after he kissed a woman in a nightclub. The tribunal stated that the quantity of cocaine detected in Gasquet's sample was "very small, about the size of a grain of salt".[7]

quote:

Tony Pulis has lost his appeal against an arbitration ruling that he must pay Crystal Palace £3.77m following his departure from the club in 2014 after he was found to have deceived a Premier League managers’ arbitration tribunal.

The West Bromwich Albion coach left his post as the manager at Selhurst Park less than 48 hours before their opening game of the season against Arsenal after a dispute over a £2m “survival” bonus he was due for saving Palace from relegation. The Palace owner, Steve Parish, agreed to pay Pulis the bonus more than two weeks before it was due but then demanded he return it following his sudden and unexpected departure two days later.

In March, the Premier League’s mediation panel found in favour of Palace and Parish, with Pulis ordered to return the bonus and pay a further £1m in legal costs and damages for breach of contract. That decision was appealed against by Pulis but a ruling from the Commercial Court last week dismissed his appeal and ordered him to pay liquidated damages for £1.5m as well as £2.276m damages “for deceit”.

Detail has emerged in a written ruling published by the judge on Monday. Pulis alleged there had been “serious irregularity” in the panel’s initial decision, which was taken under the FA’s Rule K Arbitrations – a method of resolving disputes without going to court which usually ensures confidentiality. However, Judge Sir Michael Burton dismissed Pulis’ appeal after upholding the panel’s verdict he had made two fraudulent misrepresentations.

The first related to a claim Pulis had assured Parish he was committed to the club and would be staying until at least 31 August 2014, when the bonus was due to be paid. He had told Palace he urgently needed the money early so “he could buy some land for his children” but Sir Michael found there was a “lack of evidence” to support this claim.

Pulis had also alleged a “heated players meeting” (HPM) took place on 12 August but the mediation panel ruled it had, in fact, taken place on 8 August – four days before he received the payment. That was despite oral evidence to the contrary from the Palace players Lewis Price and Stuart O’Keefe, although that was dismissed by the judge due to evidence provided by Parish that he had not been at the training ground, including his presence at a hairdressers on the day in question.

“The arbitrators set the oral evidence for the claimant against the following,” read the ruling. “First the evidence of Mr Parish, the chairman, in the following paragraphs. In paragraph 45 the evidence of Mr Parish is recorded that the HPM could not have taken place on 12 August as the claimant claimed, since he, Mr Parish, was not at the training ground on 12 August.

“But so far as Mr Parish is concerned, the arbitrators set out in paragraphs 56, 57, 62, 63, 64 and 78 to 79 the evidence which was adduced as to Mr Parish’s movements on 12 August, and the supportive evidence of taxi fares, of telecommunications evidence called as expert evidence, and the hairdressing salon at which he attended on the relevant morning when the HPM is said to have occurred, and the arbitrators were persuaded by that evidence.”

The panel added that Pulis was “not willing to concede that the heated players’ meeting did not occur on 12 August because he otherwise had no explanation [for his departure]”.

The original ruling found Pulis’ standards of conduct had “been shown to be disgraceful”. That was referenced in Sir Michael’s final decision which said he had “reached a consequential conclusion that it was appropriate in the circumstances to make an award of indemnity costs because of their conclusions as to the conduct of the claimant.”

The judge said he had analysed Pulis’s complaints about the arbitrators’ decisions and concluded his challenge should be dismissed. He said he would enforce the damages awarded by the arbitrators. Sir Michael said the arbitration panel had heard evidence behind closed doors.

He had also analysed Pulis’s challenge at a private hearing – in line with judges’ normal policy but thought it appropriate his ruling should be made public.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/28/tony-pulis-crystal-palace-appeal

Vegetable posted:

how do you unintentionally drink?

Eau de MacGowan posted:

Remember that committed career criminal Nile Ranger got a tattoo of his name on his face.

blue footed boobie posted:

What did he say?

oliwan posted:

This must be the absolute threshold of what constitutes racial abuse.

Ewar Woowar posted:

Ronaldo released this information himself because he's ashamed of liking men

serious gaylord posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39664212

Bombing team busses to short sell their stock. What a world.

Blue Star Error posted:

Good. When will Man U get the money?

Tsaedje posted:

MOTDs knew

GutBomb posted:

Those really are all just therapeutic drugs though. When I had tendinitis I had the same corticosteroid and it just helps inflammation heal faster. It really seems like much ado about nothing. I guess aside from the few uses of coke and E but those are obviously recreational and wouldn't have any positive effect on performance.

GutBomb posted:

If you're training to hard inflammation occurs then I don't really see what's wrong with treating it.

I don't even see what's wrong with doping really. If they just let everyone do it the playing field would be even. Baseball hasn't been as good as it was in the 90s where everyone was doping.

Kick rules out of football.

big crush on Chad OMG posted:

More like the tea lady knowing Rooney

Simiain posted:

"The mother said she covered her son’s eyes after the boy pointed out that Picklo, who was seated behind them, was not wearing a shirt"

Imagine being so loving American that you cover your kids eyes and get some lass arrested because she has her norks out.

Blue Star Error posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-41609231

ephex posted:

Rascar Capac posted:

The first version of the Theme from Shaft was rough.

blue footed boobie posted:

The real question is whether they will get Flanagan t-shirts to support domestic violence like they got Suarez t-shirts to support racism.

Vagabundo posted:

So what would be the process here, if Russia is told to gently caress off out of its own World Cup (they probably won't). Does a new UEFA qualification spot open up?

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Pretty sure Qatar's stadiums are still some muddy foundations made from a unique mix of cement and south asian immigrants

Weaponized Cum posted:

Do any Farca players pay their taxes? ffs

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42979212