Or at least suspend it until the start of next season, regardless if they finish in the bottom 3 or not.
Sad to hear about Wigan. I seem to recall that they got promoted to the old 4th Division around 1978. Whelan did a terrific job to turning these upstarts into an effective Premier League team. It is sad, especially when the problem has stemmed from the epidemic but I think that Bournemouth will have to be very careful next season that they do not implode quite like this. I have a nasty suspicion that they are on a very slippery slope. Eddie Howe looked on the verge of tears when the fourth goal went in tonight. Very sad.
I feel Eddie Howe´s time at Bournemouth is up! He needs a fresh challenge (West Ham), Bournemouth need an input of fresh ideas. Back to the main point and I agree with you about Wigan. It begs the question why they are selling up to foreign "investors?" There can´t be many British owned clubs in the PL or EPL Championship for that matter. Of the PL sides that are British I can think of Tottenham, West Ham, Burnley, Crystal Palace, and Newcastle. Oh and Norwich.
The Mini-Skates will sink into obscurity again after Eddie leaves, he has done a miraculous job there.
How does a club get sold in four weeks between two Chinese owners without a fit and proper person's test?
look even closer. The guy who sold it, owns 51% of the company who bought it. That company was created in January 2020 and even better.... his first company loaned the money to the second company. This is nothing more than a betting and money scam. If football authorities don’t step in, the football is corrupt.
Yeah the more I read about it the more dodgy it sounds, even by football's low standards. It's mental that they were handing new contracts out just last week.
That is outrageous. I hope we get some comments from all departments over the coming days. Heads need to roll.
Looks like the EFL themselves need locking up. How on Earth was the takeover allowed to go through, when it looks as dodgy a deal as they come?
I can't speak to the veracity of the details, but the fact that the people who can (namely the head of the EFL and the administrator) seem to believe that this is a scam would seem to confirm the rough outline, at the very least. And that is, indeed, probably the biggest scandal that the football pyramid has faced in...ever, maybe? Intentionally torpedoing your team because you have bet millions against them is pretty well unparalleled.
Yep, if that's what's happened - and it seems likely it is - then I can't think of anything that comes close. In this country at least.
Fit and proper persons don’t enter into it. If the EFL have even circumstantial evidence that that’s what’s happened, then they most certainly cannot apply the deduction. There is even a case for not relegating anyone, just in case this affects more than one club.
