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downendcity

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  1. Need to break out the squeaky bum oil supplies Major.
  2. You and Dolls make a good front 2 - she sets 'em up and you finish 'em off! An OTIB smash 'n grab.
  3. Poor tactics by Manning. Far too early for us to go into, and hold on to, a 2 goal lead. Better to do that in the 93rd minute!
  4. He could be the one to tie the opposition in knots
  5. Harry Cornick and gets it all wrong, go together like fish and chips or strawberries and cream.
  6. We've shouted out for penalties many times but rarely won them.
  7. Ref: Need a VAR review of a possible penalty to Bristol City. VAR team: Sorry we're still watching the VIlla Chelsea game and have seen a great free kick, but Bristol City are not a premier league team, and it's Bristol City so no penalty!
  8. Ref: Need a VAR review of the Forest goal VAR team: Sorry we were watching the Villa Chelsea game but Forest are the premier league team so OK to allow it!
  9. I'm looking forward to getting the match commentary when the mail coach arrives in Spalding tomorrow lunchtime.
  10. Had to go analogue for coverage tonight. It says " Knight equalises with a clever finish" I must admit it's getting difficult to follow this coverage in the dark and with cloud cover over the Fens!
  11. I'm following ceefax and would be listening on my radiogram, but one of the valves has blown and the cat's whisker is on the blink.
  12. You are right, I should have said football administrators. Clubs policing financial rules and themselves would be like putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank.
  13. Policing of financial rules reminds me of refereeing. It seems to me that referees these days are naive and even when allied to the "assistance" of VAR, all too often seem oblivious to players cheating by diving, simulation, unpunished relentless holding by defenders in the penalty area etc. etc. Similarly football's regulators have a set of financial rules that they themselves drafted and police, yet it seems that clubs can duck and dive their way around those rules almost with apparent impunity. Whether it be grossly inflated values of sponsorship by owners related companies or ridiculous COVID allowances ( yes Stoke, I'm looking at you), it's like the emperor's new clothes, everyone else can see it as bu115hit but football's administrators can't/don't/don't want to. I'm sure someone ( MR P?) will point out that those clubs were only doing what they were allowed. If so, then it only proves how naive ( or negligent) the administrators were when drafting the rules in the first place. As we saw with Derby, the EFL "forgot' to include provision in the rules so that the profit from the sale of a stadium to a related 3rd party could not be used to offset losses for ffp.
  14. I've said before that SL has lived his HL business life in a heavily regulated financial services sector, where there are serious penalties for breach of their rules. For example, a few years back Nationwide ( I think it was) was forced to take all their adviser workforce out of action for re-training because of breaches/failures and only this last week HSBC were fined something like £56m. Accordingly, his business instinct would be to automatically manage his BCFC business in accordance with football's financial rules and changes in those rules. Going back to when he first announced that the club had to move to sustainability, he was roundly criticised by many fans, who saw it as an indication that he was no longer prepared to put his hand in his pocket. With hindsight, SL had seen the pending introduction of ffp, foresaw and understood the implications and made changes to ensure that club could and would comply. He also recognised the areas that ffp did allow an owner to invest, so we saw the investment in the academy ( has that benefitted the club both financially and on the playing side?) but also in the redevelopment of AG. Crucially with AG, the redeveloped stadium now generates significant additional income, and not just on match days, all of which can then legitimately be utilised in improving us on the pitch ( or in boosting his nest egg for those that think do !). As I see it, one of the main problems football's administrators have in ensuring that ffp or p&s is being adhered to, is that the majority of owners don't have SL's background in financial services. Some will have built their wealth by ducking and diving , a la Del Boy, so see rules as an occupational hazard. Others, and in particular those that are effectively sovereign state owners, are used to circumventing rules and, I suspect, that for them in many other areas in which they operate "money talks", so that they always get what they want. The other problem is well evidenced by Everton currently, but we saw previously with Derby. When a club is penalised for breaking rules that the club was fully aware of, the fans argue that it is unfair and penalises the fans, ignoring the fact that success achieved by cheating those same financial rules enabled the fans to benefit by onfield success! The other issue is clubs using every device to get around punishment, or to have it reduced by appeals. Fingers crossed that threat of an independent regulator will force the FA/Premier League/EFL to be more vigilant in their prosecution and punishment of offenders and to make sure the rules are made as tight as possible to prevent clever clubs finding ways around them.
  15. Yes - I'm immediately disheartened when I log on to OTIB to have a read.
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