I watched a lot of the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup FInal last night (by accident I hasten to add) between USA and Brasil. Apart from the fact that Brasil is not in CONCACAF, the general standard quite frankly was rubbish. The one goal was a well taken header but other than that very poor fare on offer from two supposed powerhouses of women's football. I read somewhere that the USA team has fallen behind Europe and the ROW, and on this showing it certainly has, along with Brasil. Paint drying has more appeal. Alex Morgan is still worth a watch mind.
Gary Neville bang on with his comments about the Premier League's continued failure to agree a new deal with the EFL... “I am more interested in the vote they didn’t have, which was to support the rest of the Football League which they keep bumping down the road and it’s an absolute disgrace,” the former Manchester United defender-turned-pundit told Sky Sports. “It is about the welfare of the game and the sustainability of the whole league. The Premier League at this moment in time are negligent in their dismissive nature, just pushing it down the road, thinking ‘maybe a regulator will sort it, maybe we’ll sort it’ and not doing anything. “That’s not good governance, it just demonstrates to me that they are not looking after the whole game like they should be. It angers me every time I see they have a Premier League meeting and seem to look after themselves but not look after the rest of football.”
lincoln are making a run for the division 3 play-offs. followed saturday's 5-1 win at barnsley with a 6-0 home win against cambridge and are now undefeated in 12. meanwhile, bolton, who are 3rd but going through a rough patch have beaten play-off hopefuls oxford 5-0 for only their 4th win in 12 and completing a miserable night for the university boat race teams. oxford are 8th, but they've had a miserable 2024.
Chesterfield could be promoted on Saturday, it's some going to be promoted in March, they also look like topping a hundred points and goals. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
National league is such a strange league to watch, but Chesterfield have a real chance of establishing as a league club again. I'm not very sure some of those former regular visitors to Bootherry who now find themselves in non league realistically do.
The ten Premier League clubs who opposed the new £900m deal for the EFL - Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool, West Ham, Aston Villa, Wolves, Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth.
Is that a part of the support for EFL? I hope Bournemouth and Palace (my nephew works for them, so not sure I really mean that one) get relegated.
The Premier League proposed an extra £836m over five years (on top of the existing £110m a year given to the EFL and £40m for grass roots football), in an attempt to head off an imposed increase by a government governing body, but they kicked it down the road again. They're getting a lot of grief over this morning, which is good.
This is a good piece highlighted by Henry Winter, which is an interesting point. See new posts…”We at Bristol Rovers gave Jarell Quansah and Elliot Anderson men’s football and both now are established top-flight players, with their respective clubs (#LFC and #NUFC). Surely their combined market value one day will be much more than the extra amount the Premier League are haggling over? “This season we took Harvey Vale on loan from #CFC and he has played the most amount of minutes than any Chelsea loanee so far this season, playing over 2,400 minutes for Bristol Rovers. We are developing Harvey and building up his physicality to a level where his body can withstand playing Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday fixtures at a consistent level and in a very competitive league, something which Under-21 football will never come close to providing. “Each club in the EFL has many loanees playing, learning and developing before returning as assets to their parent clubs. Maybe…we should discuss future development fees for our loan players when they are eventually sold by their parent clubs? I’m sure Mr. Boehly at Chelsea will have plans to sell Harvey for £40m+ after we have developed his game for them! The Premier League need the EFL, and the quicker they realise (and pay for) the added value we provide to them the better. They need to act decisively and quickly before it becomes too late for some clubs.”
Bournemouth? The club who were wound up and had to reinvent themselves as AFC Bournemouth to remain in the Football league?
A lot of teams forget where they came from, the long term fans don’t. Some of our very own fans seem to think we deserve to be PL because of our recent history. The older generation understand we are a traditional second tier team, who occasionally get to the top table & then come back down, rinse & repeat, but it’s all just a bit of fun really!
They've never actually been wound up, they just changed their name to AFC Bournemouth in 1971 so they'd come top in a list of English football clubs. Though you'd still expect them to be more sympathetic to the plight of EFL clubs.
Bournemouth and Boscombe changed their name to AFC Bournemouth in 1971. Nothing to do with being wound up. They have never been wound up. They twice been in administration, first time over 25 years after they changed their name and both times in the name of AFC Bournemouth.
Yes,they've been close a couple of times,which makes it odd that they now consider themselves among the elite and unwilling to spread a bit of 'goodwill' to others less fortunate?
Wound up, administration, same thing in my eyes, its rearranging the goal posts to suit their needs. Now they want to pull up the ladder that they themselves clung on to for dear life. Also its a bit naive to think a club changes its name for reasons other than avoiding paying someone, Hull Tigers being the exception.
