tom_widdows

Is that practice not illegal? Something in the back of my mind says it was banned/ loophole was closed after the Carlos Tevez situation at West Ham ie all wages must come directly from the football club's income.

Does that include 'walk/ fly-ups' on the day?

Doesnt really concern me but out of interest what would need to be done/ paid to get the little padlock next to the site address?

Rules: 1. One name per points tally for the season, first come first served! 2. Only allowed to change prediction until closure of January transfer window as along as it is to an empty tally. 78 77 76 75 74 MBT 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 - Manc_don 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 - Tom_Widdows 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 ------- Previous Champions: 2009-10: Dave_min (41 points) 2010-11: BigAl (38 points) 2011-12: Snapper (41 points) 2012-13: Tyrant (48 points) 2013-14: 2014-15: Dandy (75 points) 2015-16: Dandy (retained due to no correct scorer) 2016-17: Rico (76 points - Flawless Victory. Nothing questionable about it at all) 2017-18: Tom (73 points) 2018-19: DantheDon (67points) 2019-20: No winner - DantheDon retains title following an independent inquiry

With 2 rounds to go in the English Championship it now seems Wigan are not the only club potentially facing points deduction. Derby County and Sheffield Wednesday facing up to 21 point penalties for selling their stadiums to their owners to make sure they didnt breach the financial fair play rules. Hillsborough was sold for £60million so the club posted a 24.6million pre tax profit. Pride Park was sold for £80million so Derby posted a 14.6million pre tax profit Further down the EFL has appealed against the 2 point penalty given to Macclesfield for failing to pay their players - They had already been docked 11 points for not paying the players and failing to fulfill fixtures with a further 4 point penalty suspended until next season. If that penalty is increased yo 3 of more Macclesfield will be relegated to the conference and Stevenage will will be put back into league 2 English football is a joke

Leeds back in the bankers league for first time in 16 years. West Brom seem to be doing their best to screw up promotion. A Brentford win or draw tomorrow will put them in 2nd place with 1 game to go

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/15/chris-grayling-fails-to-become-intelligence-and-security-chair

Ive got a few in mind but would be nice to follow BSC in person given they are techincally the closest team geographically to me. After that its either Clydebank, Maryhill Juniors or perhaps even Queens Park (see how the redeveloped Lesser Hampden looks) In other football news Clive Tyldesley has been punted by ITV. No more 'WE HAVE LIFT OFF' after Englandshire score first only for them to be pegged back in an amusing way about 10mins later

Am seriously considering giving up on the 'big leagues' and throwing my support behind a local Junior or at most a 3rd division club similar to Rocket's switch to Cove. Hopefully BSC Glasgow will manage to get an actual Glasgow home again (currently groundsharing with Alloa FFS!) ideally a groundshare arrangement with the Warriors given Scotstoun Stadiums is closer to Broomhill than Firhill is to Partick.

Barry Nicholson Equaliser at Tynecastle Scott Severin goal against Sevco on final day John Stewart winning goal at Parkhead Mackie goal in Dnipro Jamie Smith goals vs Copenhagen Zdrillic & Prunty at Parkhead Jamie Smith Winner against Sevco Steve Lovell goal vs sevco Darren Mackie winner at Parkhead (Scottish cup) Andy Dow winner vs Sevco (League cup) Andy Dow winner vs Hibs (Scottish cup) Zerouali hat trick at Dens Red arrows corner routine finally working in 3 goal comeback at Dens Chris Clark 97th min winner vs hibs on opening day of 2002/03 season Mackie goal vs Celtic during snowball match Chris Clark deflected winner at Tynecastle

Wonder if these 430pm, 530pm and 6pm kick off times will continue should crowds be allowed back into stadiums?

Seems there is a rumour about Wigan's administration being part of a betting scandal which might see someone clean up should they get relegated from the Championship.

Arbitrarion as I understand it means any document relating to the disagreement must be handed over by law. Hearts and Thistle are relegated however they will no doubt be compensated and the SPFL will need to fully explain what happened with Dundee etc and the other alleged claims they made about TV contracts etc Wonder how long Cockwomble will hold on to his main job and/or his new role at UEFA?

VAR at it again Lucas Moura fouled running in on goal. To stop himself faceplanting into the ground he puts his arm out and it touches the ball just before the Sheff Utd defender kicks it back into his upper arm Ref plays advantage as the ball lands at Harry Kanes feet who after a pull back scores. VAR official declares Moura handballed it after he was fouled. Kane goal and foul on Moura 'cancelled' and Sheff Utd get a free kick?!

West Ham supposedly in the shit too which is bad news for the London stadium. At least QPR had the good sense to keep hold of Loftus Road when they briefly moved the previous London Olympic stadium.

I'm surprised they have managed to avoid it this long. Soon as Whelan left they were in trouble as he effectively bankrolled them from 1995 - 2018. Wigan historically is a Rugby League town and as soon as Premiership football went away the football attendances dropped by about 40% within a couple of seasons and with less SKY TV money and no 'sugar daddy' the Covid possibly sped up the process. That part of England is potentially a football graveyard Bury - Gone Bolton - Struggling (nearly vanished last year) Macclesfield - on Life support Blackpool - Struggling Rochdale - Club been quite vocal on how worried they are.

Have all the scousers cleared out of Wellington then? Plenty of them around during the 2006 world cup

So apparently the cup hasn't been abandoned but has to be squeezed in among the new season fixtures presumably before Christmas or the league cup (if that isnt cancelled)

In 2008 there was a film called Doomsday in which I believe a deadly virus is released and Scotland is used as a quarantine zone for the infected Mad Max style. Given the leaked report from Health England and the scenes on the beaches of Dorset today (and yesterday apparently) fuck building the bridge to Northern Ireland I think a wall from Gretna across to Berwick Upon Tweed similar to that used in the film, might be in order.

I give it till July before they sign him up

Neilson just quit the Arabs to return to Tynecastle. Interested to see if he can actually turn them around again in the championship or perhaps just find himself added to the every expanding list of recent managers should they fail to get back to the premier at the first try That is of course unless the courts rule in the Jambos favour (which no doubt will result in another law suit raised by Arabs, Raith & Cove)

Ian Holm - 88

Strange effect of having 'crowd noise' at Villa Park whilst being able to hear the players clear as day. Goal-line technology and VAR and yet a goalie holding the ball after falling into the side netting doesnt even equal a 2nd glance.

Couple of comments Ive seen suggest their demise started after they spent nearly 80million rennovating the stadium for the 2006 world cup. Had they filled the additional 10000 capacity it would have paid for itself but the conensus is their old capacity was about as high as they could expect.