Confirmed by club - Laurence Bassini will NOT be allowed to enter the University of Bolton Stadium for this afternoon's game against Coventry City.
Interesting results . Sheff U draw at Bournemouth whilst Burnley hammered Saints . Man C scoring for fun - with help from VAR?
Yeah, I wasn’t sure about the goal being disallowed. In the very finest of margins, and they were, I think the attacking team should be favoured. Not saying that’s the laws, but it’s how I think they should be.
Did seem harsh and then a goal was given in pretty much the same circumstances apparently. Trouble is the officials will be under pressure either way.
Cologne. There appear to have been some shock results in the German Cup this weekend, with Bundesliga teams being knocked out by lower league opposition (Mainz and Augsburg, for example). Are these sorts of results considered noteworthy or does no one care much?
People back home probably give much a rats as QRO beat PACHUCA. Ni modo. Hopefully the Germans are up in arms about it.
Very much like the cup competitions in England NZ. The biggest clubs only really take it seriously from about the quarter final stage. There may also be more surprises in this because there have never been replays in the German cup - always decided at the first go by extra time and penalties. Kaiserslautern beating Mainz was not such a surprise as Kaiserslautern are very much of a sleeping giant which has fallen on hard times - a bit like Sunderland (third division with a ground capacity of 49,780 tells it's own story) whereas Mainz are far from being a well established Bundesliga side. SC Verl against Augsburg was more of a shock - because it was regional league against Bundesliga. However the teams from the Bundesliga have not played any league matches yet - and starting the competitive season with a cup match is chancy. They have lost players, have not integrated new players and are, generally not yet in full flow - whereas the lower clubs are already playing league football, and have, presumably, not had the same transition of playing staff.
please log in to view this image Good job that a game was not underway when this roof came down in Holland.
This is at AZ Akmaar in North Holland where winds reached 100 km per hour yesterday. Not far from Amsterdam where Ajax's game proceeded without incident. Elsewhere there were many uprooted trees and damaged roofs. AZ Alkmaar are away this weekend at Waalwijk which is something of a blessing for them.
It shouldn't happen cologne. I watched the steel frame for a warehouse come down in high winds in the UK, and the engineer who designed it passed the blame onto the steel erectors who had not put in sufficient bracing before leaving it overnight. My view was that it had been underdesigned, backed up by another structural engineer. This came about by the desire to make the building as cheap as possible. Once again no one was hurt, but that was luck.
Yes, you are right Mark. Part of a stadium roof has collapsed in the eastern Dutch city of Enschede, trapping an unknown number of people in the rubble. The collapse happened during building work at the FC Twente football stadium. July 2011.
That wasn't meant to be an excuse Frenchie. The fact is that some leagues do not have the up to date stadium design found in the Premier League - Germany only has them because of the 2006 World Cup. Apart from the stadiums at Ajax, Feyenoord, PSV, Twente and Heerenveen the others in the Eredivisie are partly borderline cases - mostly old, and mostly cost cutting exercises. Belgium is no different in this respect - stadiums like Standard Liege and Royal Antwerp have the same feel about them as British stadiums 30 years ago. This is good in terms of atmosphere but I wouldn't trust them in a slight earthquake. Those leagues do not have the money which is found in the bigger leagues.
I didn't think that you were trying to excuse it cologne, it is that having spent a lifetime in construction projects, it makes me angry when I see shortcuts being taken with lives. The Grenfell Tower disaster should never have happened, and probably wouldn't have if cost cutting measures hadn't been in place. I will stop because this starts to verge of what governments allow to happen by setting imprecise regulations.
It isn't actually clear that shortcuts were taken Frenchie - there will be an inquest though, to be honest, the truth may not come out. The collapsed stand at Twente Enschede in 2011 still has no official ''reason'', though local media reported that a crane had driven into the stand during construction. Even the most modern stadiums such as the metrodome in Minneapolis (Minnesota Vikings) can have problems when the unexpected happens - in this case weight of snow.
I’m no engineer, but surely weight of snow should have been considered? It’s like saying it would have been fine but we hadn’t taken possibility of wind into consideration. It has to be a given, hasn’t it?
