Yes, the year the older plastics refer to when they claim they stuck with them through the bad times.
Difference is they have had union, which is harder on a pitch than league, played on it all through a winter of bad weather at the same time as football. Ours has only had us on it and is a complete mess. Bristol City and Brentford both have union teams playing there and their pitches are far better than ours. People blame FC but that is obviously the cause of our poor pitch.
Norway is on the verge of abolishing VAR from its domestic league after clubs in the country’s top two divisions recommended formally that it should be discontinued. The decision by clubs in Norsk Topfotball, which represents the 32 sides in Norway’s Eliteserien and first division, marks the most significant step yet in a fierce debate over VAR’s future in the country. Now Norway is one step from joining Sweden, which has resisted introducing the deeply controversial technology so far, in staging games without its intervention. please log in to view this image Protest and resist: fans in Scandinavia lead backlash against VAR Read more Norsk Topfotball’s clubs passed a motion that “requests that the Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) board recommend, and that the federal assembly adopts, the discontinuation of video-assisted refereeing as soon as possible”. Their verdict will now be handed to the NFF ahead of a meeting in the first week of March at which every club in Norway, including those at much lower levels, will take a final vote on the future of VAR. Cato Haug, the chairman of Norsk Topfotball, said clubs had agreed that VAR, of which the implementation has caused a strong backlash among fans, is unworkable in its current form. “We see the technology has potential,” he said. “But through today’s discussion and subsequent voting, we see the majority of our clubs believe the current version of VAR does not work well enough.” The decision to recommend that VAR is scrapped was reached after votes by club members to that effect. Clubs are member-run in Norway and each held a meeting in which the subject was tabled. Nineteen of the 32 voted to remove VAR, with the explicit expectation that Norsk Topfotball would go along with that outcome at its board meeting on Wednesday. There had been concerns that democracy may not be upheld, with insiders at a number of clubs known to favour keeping VAR, but they have honoured their supporters’ wishes. Now the NFF, which has been in favour of retaining VAR, must decide its stance before the vote in March. A statement from Norsk Supporterallianse urged it to hear the clubs’ voices. “The top clubs’ conclusion must be decisive for the federation board,” it read. “It is [their] teams that have to play with VAR (or risk having to do so), and it is they who have to pay much of the price. It would be strange if the federation board recommends that the grassroots clubs, who are blessedly far from VAR, impose a system on the elite league clubs that they do not want.” A stronger motion tabled by nine of the clubs whose members had voted against VAR, including the country’s most successful club Rosenborg, that it is not used in the forthcoming 2025 season failed to pass. It means a potential stumbling block, even if their will is carried through in March, may yet be how the wording “as soon as possible” is interpreted. One consideration could be that the current domestic television rights cycle runs until 2028; a change may be thought difficult before then. Protests against VAR have been common in Norway since it was introduced two years ago, with one high-profile occurrence being a match between Rosenborg and Lillestrøm which abandoned in July after fish cakes and smoke bombs were thrown on to the pitch.
Kyle Walker leaves Man City A perfect example of how once you’re over 30 it can go south pretty quickly been a great player for Man City but lost five yards of pace this season.
Well he can’t keep it in his pants for one thing, not that that is unusual for footballers! He’s had a bloody good career, fair dues to him.
One for the anoraks which non-league football team became the first club in England to wear sponsored shirts on this day in 1976?
FA has rejected the request from the FAW for the four Welsh clubs in the EFL to compete in a new Welsh League Cup.
