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  16. Nottingham Forest away fourth round FA Cup replay match thread

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    7 minutes ago, downendcity said:

    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!

    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!

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  24. The Championship FFP Thread (Merged)

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    1 hour ago, Hxj said:

    There is no such thing as a football regulator.  It is a member's only club.  The clubs agree to the rules and until recently policed them themselves.

    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.

     

     

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  25. The Championship FFP Thread (Merged)

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    14 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

    Problem is Mr P, you are looking at the black and white of accounts, not knowing what each club has put into their FFP submissions, including covid allowances.  You can base that on the 5/5/2.5, but we all know the rules allowed for more to be allowed (with the right evidence)…and we know City benefitted from that.

    Without seeing each club’s FFP submissions, we are just pissing in the wind.

     

    4 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

    They did and yes the CFRU seem fine but Cardiff unless I'm misreading it already seem to have been cleared for this season based on that article? Which is surprising.

    This is true albeit I struggle to see why there should be a notable uptick in 2021-22 which is a relevant period for the present season. Albeit Wales had some lockdown measures for part of 2021-22 which could add.

    Women's Team, Charitable Expenditure, Depreciation etc of Tangible, Amortisation, Impairment of Intangible excluding Player Registrations can be extrapolated.

    I'm not at all convinced that we got the same leeway last season, EFL/CFRU can push back on Covid levels too.

    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.

     

     

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