Rival watch
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Blackburn have sacked another manager. What a joke club, I feel sorry for their fans who are being screwed over by a bunch of idiots.
They need to sign someone that knows how to run a football club first, then leave him alone to get on with it.
The fans must be feeling so much hostility towards the owners right now.
Looks like both them and Wolves for the drop. Wonder if that's ever happened before? Two teams from the Prem/Div 1 ending up in League 1/Div 3 within a year? Anyone?
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/dutch-legend-davids-rescues-stranded-barnet-fans-130609593.html
It's actually my local club now - might pop in there one day.
It's actually my local club now - might pop in there one day.
A very simple and straightforward thing to do, but how many other managers would have even considered it?
Didn't realise that he wasn't being paid, either. Hope he progresses as a manager, as he was always a very entertaining player who gave it everything.
I'm with tots, with the FA bending their own rules and undermining a court of law to charge Terry despite backing of their "Yes Man" manager, media/FA witchhunt for Hazard after stupidly, but innocently kicking a ball, social networking and footballers/owners etc able to build up a Cult of Personality, fans being priced out etc football is a lost cause for me
Unfortunately, the rapid rise of the Internet has also given rise to the number of pathetic trolls. Most of these people are cowards, who hide behind the anonymity given to them by this medium. The vast majority of them wouldn't have the guts to follow up on their threats.
They're playing matches now so it'll probably change but there's 1 point between the bottom 6 in League 2!
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Yaya Toure likely to leave Citeh in the summer apparently......apparently unhappy with no movement on his contract (according to agent anyway)
So - where is the safe money on where he will go? PSG or Russia perhaps??? He's coming up 30, but will probably be too expensive for most clubs. Top, top player!!
So - where is the safe money on where he will go? PSG or Russia perhaps??? He's coming up 30, but will probably be too expensive for most clubs. Top, top player!!
Quite agree about media witchhunts. What about the Wigan guy's "challenge" last weekend? No doubt a straight red and I won't get into what the FA are doing (or not) but the point is that the FA's lack of leadership on this is suddenly in the spotlight because the media have put it in the spotlight. There have been *many* examples of incidents where retrospective action would have been in order, but the FA hid behind the "we can't do anything because somebody saw it excuse". So why has it suddenly boiled over this time? Of course the tackle was horrendous but you could argue it was even more potentially damaging than Thatcher's forearm smash for which the FA did intervene with retrospective punishment - which was apparently ok as it was a 'special case'. I'm no physiology expert but I reckon you can (all others things being equal) do *far more* damage with a leg than an arm!
And then of course we have the media uproar over the Nani red card - as far as I can see mainly because he's a Utd player rather than the justice of it all. Such a red card would have gone almost unmentioned if it had been for any other team - who might also have tried to reorganise in the wake of such a decision instead of being completely shellshocked that a decision had for once gone against them on their own ground.
The media in this country, in particular BSkyB, Newscorp and pretty much everybody bar Freelance journalists work for and serve United - it's (the "fans") their target audience and epicentre of viewing figures. Murdoch was losing £10m a day from Sky until Football broadcasting bailed them out and turned in huge profits. Football is their biggest cash cow, and United are Football's biggest cash cow so there is a definite link there.
We've seen worse red cards handed out to other English clubs with little furore I.e Drogba red v Barcelona and the media outcry was "Sour grapes from Chelsea as they accuse Frisk", we saw the red card handed out to RVP when it was proven he had the grand total of 1 second to react upon hearing the whistle and withdrawing his foot and instead the headline was "Messi/Barca master class" with the implication Arsenal "would have lost anyway".
What makes the FA's incompetence worse is that they wanted an extended ban for Hazard for kicking a ball from beneath a ballboy yet appealed to UEFA to get Rooney's ban reduced to 2 games after kicking out at a Montenegro player from behind but seem to find Rio Ferdinand's kick out at Torres acceptable, but then ban players for swearing after 90 minutes of non-stop abuse.
The FA have sent out the message you can break player's legs, elbow and kick out at opposition players (if sporting a United shirt) but if you dare kick a ball from beneath a ballboy or swear that's a lengthy ban
Whatever anyone thinks about John Terry the decision to go above and beyond a court of law to ban him was simply incredulous.
The FA have sent out the message you can break player's legs, elbow and kick out at opposition players (if sporting a United shirt) but if you dare kick a ballboy or swear that's a lengthy ban
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I disagree. The burden of proof in the two cases was completely different and employees will often face action in their line of work, regardless of any criminal prosecution.
Terry's shifty lawyers might've bought him a clean record, but he fully deserved to be punished within the game.
The magistrate said, several times, in his summing-up that Terry did call Anton Ferdinand what he was accused of calling him.
The difference between the two hearings is The FA's was based on the (apologies for the term) black and white of the case, namely whether Terry said it or not - as the magistrate stated that Terry did, then The FA could act.