England U17's bow out of the Euro Championships after drawing 1-1 with Italy but going out 5-4 on penalties.
The insanity of trying to release a quarter of non playing staff to save what must be equivalent to half the salary of some **** ****er like casemiro is mind blowing. Stop spending ludicrous money on **** players and you'll save a fortune lad. From a pure perception perspective, be it fans, people involved in the club even to potential new players, this won't be a good look for them.
Jose to fenerbache…that could be interesting https://talksport.com/football/1901...ce=fb-image&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=no
Isn't to a different extent what we had with the Allme's and ended up with 'Toiletgate' as the majority of ground staff lost their jobs and cleaning was subcontracted and only done around match days...
Pretty much exactly the same, I still recall the fall out when the groundsmen got shanked, not the worst thing they did but shows a real contempt for people who dedicate they lives and livelihoods to a club for wages that aren't that great. For a club like man u, to try and save what must be a tiny fraction of their expenditure in this way is, allamesque. And that's pretty ****ing damning.
The groundsmen didn't 'get shanked' They were sacked. This came about after a complaint from another club about the state of our pitch and the consequent Premier League enquiry into the problem. The groundsmen took their case to court for unfair dismissal and lost.
It was Marco Silva's complaints about the pitch that ultimately led to the groundsmen being sacked. There was a voluntary groundsman, who'd worked for sixteen years (he started at Boothferry Park), who was sacked at the same time, despite his only payment being a free ticket for the game.
****ing hell, why won't Clubs learn? He's not a Manager and never will be as long as he's got a hole in his arse. Waste of money.
I watched the last half hour, we did everything but score. We had a real disadvantage in the penalties as our goalie seemed barely 5 ft 6 (probably bigger, but seemed it compared to usual keepers). I’m use to seeing penalty takers look nervous, but he looked petirified.
On the one hand, he got Derby to the play-off final in 2019, decent achievement. Then you look at the loan players he had that season - Fikayo Tomori, Harry Wilson, Mason Mount, Andy King - and it doesn't stand out quite so much.
Believe what you like, it still doesnt make it true. Fans/people were given a free ticket for replacing divets after a game from the day Boothferry was opened. All the club expected was for them to actually do it. Things are a bit more professional now and if the case you quote was so wrongly treated by the club why did the judge at the unfair dismissal trial throw it out of court? Marco Silva may well have complained about the state of the pitch but it was after an offical complaint from Swansea or possibly Stoke, well after Silva had left, which triggered the PL investigation, which triggered a club investigation and the problem was then sourced and sorted.
Silva was our manager when the groundsmen were sacked, they were sacked in April 2017. The volunteer obviously couldn’t claim unfair dismissal, he wasn’t employed by the club.
2017? Its now 2024 and you still want to open up old wounds? Is the pitch better today then it was then? Was the groundsmen case for unfair dismissal thrown out of court or not? And does it really matter today?
Didn’t the club ask Newcastle United what they paid for pitch maintenance and find out that we had been ordering about 6 times as much seeds and fertiliser than they did for St James Park and half a dozen training pitches put together? Seem to recall reading something along those lines.
