Weve had 2 weeks to sort a Visa, someones cocked up on this one, shame was really looking forward to seeing him
You have to put your passport in to the embassy with the application, he needed it to travel to Japan/Korea.
So International express courier services are'nt used by embassy's then?. Money can get anything done, not to mention 2 weeks of time in which to get that business done.
I doubt he would have been seriously up for contention anyway - maybe a place on the bench. Has he even trained with us yet?
He played Friday so the earliest he will have no longer needed it is Saturday. Very few collect on a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday so it's highly likely Monday is the earliest it can have been sent. So the earliest the border agency will have received it will have been Tuesday.
If he was likely to be played and the passport was tied up with the internationals he should have been pulled from the internationals. I don't think he was going to play anyway for the reasons mentioned above i.e. Not trained with the team enough. It's not like he has played in England like the others.
I don't think Brucey would've dropped Jelavic anyway, he's our top scorer, but this talk of Hernandez not having trained enough is a bit wide of the mark; he's been playing with Uruguay so he's got match fitness there. Plus when we signed Livermore and Huddlestone, they made their debuts against Chelsea the very next day.
If he's match fit you start him we've rarely had a player of this calibre (Okocha, Geovanni) so Wet Sham will be chuffed if our two biggest signings don't start and Abel is match-fit anyway
...from the bench, and changed what looked like a Championship side floundering against PL champion elect into a side that looked more than capable of giving Chelsea a game. I'd like to see HBA start too, but I wouldn't be surprised to see him come on from the bench, and change the game in the same way as Thudd did.
He automatically qualifies for one as he's a starter for his national team, so he'll have got it immediately.
That's for a work permit, Hernandez was granted his even before deadline day, Falcao and Hernandez would both have to go through the same process for a visa. Falcao's got rushed through whilst he was away on international duty, went for his interview at the British embassy in Miami.
From personal experience, international express courier services are crap. Paid loads of money and nothing was done. Guaranteed three-day delivery which took a fortnight and was still not delivered to correct address.
These kind of situations baffle me because they are so damned preventable. As a long time baseball fan, it seems like every spring some Dominican, Venezuelan, or other South American player is late reporting because of "visa problems." Then they get off to slow starts and blame the bureaucratic tin-pan governments. No one seems to learn that this kind of thing can be anticipated and therefor prevented by early planning. It's so damned unnecessary.
