Afraid not BB, FOI applies to public sector bodies which the FA, regrettably, is not. I wonder what a bit of transparency would do though?
If nothing else they should be allowed to talk post match and explain what they have see and why decisions have been made. BTW - If you fancy some live football on Saturday the Under 18s are playing Norwich in the Youth Cup at the Vic with a 1pm kick-off. Tickets are £3 and £1.
I can remember when the ban was applied in relation to the number of first team games - there was once someone who was sent off playing for our youth team in the 80s and because the youth team had a fixture pile-up due to rearranged games, but there being no similar issue with the first team, his 2 game ban became 6!
Understandably, One Size is not amused.... http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/fo...o-Twitter-over-Manchester-City-cup-suspension
The article does mention that the red card should have been Ekstrand's - that and Hall's comments do suggest that the official line from the FA was that the offence was shirt pulling. If that is the case, then they have done little more than a shoddy 'investigation' - or didn't investigate at all but just took their pound of flesh without caring whose flesh it was. I do wish there was some way that the fans could force them to be more open in such dealings - it simply isn't right. It wouldn't surprise me either to find that the club's silence is enforced - "accept this and stay silent or we'll increase the ban to three matches...."
Thanks Yorkshire - but why on a Thursday - I thought Thursday was the day games are rarely scheduled - can Sky really move things at will?
I don't think that anyone really knows tbh - this http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sport/10783914.Forest_trip_moved_to_Thursday/ shows that the Wobby didn't have a clue. If Sky have their reasons, they have kept them to themselves.
Watford Observer has a picture of Neil Price pouring a pint in the Red and Yellow Lion and state it is closing on Sunday but do not provide any info as to reasons behind it, does anyone know anything on it?and has anything been resolved on its ownership?
The game is on thursday because the FA and FL have asked for it to be so. Anything to upset Watfords stide and stop them arriving on the Premiership.
A bit of good news re One Size... http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sp...cnews/10969440.Hall_set_to_remain_at_Watford/
From what I can gather it has been unable to trade at a profit. They were hoping to get some investment in to do it up and enlarge it, but it never came. For a pub to survive these days it needs more than just sales on one or two days a week and because it was not getting trade on a non-match day it failed. Also as far as I can make out as no one wants to say much, the building is owned by Baz and he will now have a closed pub on his hands. Quite what the situation between him and the club is now I haven't a clue.
The whole of the first half of the Man. City v Watford is now up on Hornet Player with the second half due to go up tomorrow. Despite the problems from time to time I still think it is good value and there is a code 5205-125YEARS that will get you £12.50 off a subscription at present. For me it is the only way to get live Watford games via the excellent Jon Marks unless there happens to be a stream somewhere, and with the extended highlights most weeks you see more than the Beeb chooses to show.
Don't know what Frenchie thinks, but 'stonewall' is the adjective I'd use. It even looks as though the keeper deliberately raised his arm, effectively stiff-arming Anya as he ran past him. I've no idea what the ref was looking at not to see it - same for the lino.
