1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Doncaster Belles lose appeal

Discussion in 'Portsmouth' started by PompeyLapras, Jun 30, 2013.

  1. PompeyLapras

    PompeyLapras Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 29, 2011
    Messages:
    11,556
    Likes Received:
    2,030
    Doncaster have lost their appeal against the FA's unfair relegation relegation of them in favour of Manchester City. The FA are a complete and utter disgrace. Bunch of ****ing dinosaurs need to get the **** out before they ruin football in this country. They've already done a good job of severely damaging women's football. I hope everyone boycotts Man City's games next year. **** the FA. The way football is governed in this country is '****ing appalling', which clearly what FA stands for. I am sick and tired of the FA who are accountable to no-one, are as transparent as a brick wall and are reeking of corruption and greed. Someone needs to do something about it.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23109804
     
    #1
  2. devonFRATTONiser

    devonFRATTONiser Well-Known Member
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    8,626
    Likes Received:
    3,600
    The contempt that those in charge are showing toward certain sides [Pompey Ladies included] is verging on the criminal IMO. I honestly think you couldn't make it up!
     
    #2
  3. MAJR

    MAJR Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Apr 17, 2011
    Messages:
    2,117
    Likes Received:
    240
    You might be interested in this. I wrote it tonight and based it upon Alfred Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade. I thought about making a new thread for it but, hey, no real point I feel, if there's already a thread about the subject I might as well use that. I tell ya, sometime writing these things is very difficult, and I'm sure the ending is weak. Anyway, here you go:

    Betrayed are the Belles

    One game in, one game in
    One game in the season
    And all effort made worthless
    Betrayed are the Belles
    Gone from the League they played
    Thrown from the League they made
    And all effort made worthless
    Betrayed are the Belles

    Gone from the League they played
    Now is the game dismayed
    And all the public knew
    Someone had blundered
    “Feel for the Belles” they say
    “For nought are the games they play
    Relegated in one day
    For a couple of hundred”

    Supporters beside them
    Supporters behind them
    Supporters stand with them
    To the cause of the Belles
    Replaced by a bigger name
    A club of far greater fame
    For the men’s team, all the same
    Man City so did come to claim
    The place that held the Bells

    Money surely came was the key
    When this decision came to be
    For no response has met the plea
    To solve this strange mystery
    Of the plight of the Belles
    Relegation without case
    Save for money does disgrace
    The game that we do all embrace
    And makes the FA so lose face
    As in this story tells

    When will now end this shame?
    And this dishonour to the game
    That the FA think fleeting
    Not while the Belles persist
    Not while we still resist
    This bad case of mistreating​
     
    #3
  4. Wooperts_duck

    Wooperts_duck Well-Known Member
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 30, 2011
    Messages:
    159,510
    Likes Received:
    294,556
    Excellent poem MAJR <ok>
     
    #4
  5. PompeyLapras

    PompeyLapras Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 29, 2011
    Messages:
    11,556
    Likes Received:
    2,030
    I agree, excellent poem. You should post it on the Belles' Facebook page or somewhere.

    Talking of which, like my new sig pic?

    As for Pompey, Fratton, I think we were massively disadvantaged by the amount of time it took the the PST to take over the club, had that happened sooner, we'd have been in a much better position for our WSL bid. Then again, with the FA being the FA, it still probably wouldn't have helped. If Leeds can't get in, then that doesn't give much hope for everyone else.

    But South Durham and Cestria, with their massive fanbase, got in!!!!
     
    #5

Share This Page