Numero Uno

4 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Oh well after one game its all over

City Blackpool and Derby doomed

Hull champions by a mile

oh wait just remembered a season is 46 games 

Some of you lot need to get a ducking grip 

It amazes me that some in here choose to follow something that so clearly affects their mental health in an adverse way. Find something or someone who makes you happy.

8 minutes ago, WolfOfWestStreet said:

We're in a relegation scrap. Strap in. 

We're in a relegation scrap. Strap in. 

If we are then so be it. I’ll give it ten games or so and judge from there. What won’t change anything is people crying and bawling about it every week. Won’t change a ******* thing.

4 minutes ago, Langford Red said:

Its going to be a very long season

We have to forget Promotion

We will get lots of bad results

Hope the manager knows what he is doing????

 

Oh well the GASH lost

We have to FORGET promotion? Are you for real? Seriously, did you think before today that we could. finish top 6 this season?

My take was sell a surplus midfield player, get someone in who can hit the net 12-15 times and we’ll be alright. The bed wetters are right at it this evening though

5 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Good thread- a week ago but their issues still clearly outstanding...possible they might not even be able to register Messi.

This isn't due to UEFA's FFP regs but as mentioned in OP, La Liga's own salary Regulations. It does beg the question as I've not read it in depth if they literally reduced the allowable wage budget as a % based on Covid.

Seems it's being slashed big time...

Putting aside the fact quite a lot of people feel happy about this, the debate is an interesting one- should a League have the right to actively decide a Club's wage budget as La Liga appear to do? Probably not the same as a wage cap as a % but actively decide for each Club albeit based on financial data- it does differ to FFP ie Profit and Loss. Clearly in terms of a club being on the verge of full disaster, or refusal to comply yes but in general, should a League have this right more routinely? Clubs did vote for it of course...

Bit more reading on it. 

https://newsletter.laliga.es/global-futbol/how-laliga-economic-controls-go-beyond-financial-fair-play/

https://newsletter.laliga.es/global-futbol/laliga-economic-control-creates-virtuous-cycle-for-clubs/

The fact that clubs voted for it tells me they wanted a relatively easy way of being able to control costs without being blamed by their own fans. If the vast majority of clubs agree to the formula used then there is no argument with this system. If 40% disagree then you have an issue. Just look at the idiots on this board who demand that Lansdown splashes the cash without knowing a single thing about FFP. Anything that ultimately helps football clubs move forward on a more sustainable rather than irresponsible basis is good for the game imo and the sooner it happens in this country, in conjunction with parachute payments being abolished, the better (I think the impacts of Covid, at least, is helping clubs lower down the scale think on those lines).

23 minutes ago, downendcity said:

Is the rotten luck that he went off injured, or that he’s expected to be fit for the weekend?  

Based on his availability record for us I would imagine the player is distraught.................

Notice our U23’s showed the Few that it is possible to get a win against National League South opponents this evening.

5 minutes ago, AppyDAZE said:

So they are going to "piss" League 2

Wow!

You would have thought after last season that more caution would have been exercised but nope, HMS Piss The League has the keys in the ignition (they certainly wouldn't be able to afford a push button starter out there).

I notice that HMS Piss The League is due to set sail out of port again..........12 months ago was just a trial run.

Minimum 20 goals but likely to be more seems to be the cast iron guarantee that Brett comes with.

36 minutes ago, Super said:

Just out of interest is Refuge a support for Women and Children and not Men?

There is the odd Refuge and support group for men but the low numbers reflect the simple fact that there are less Women on Men and Men on Men DV incidents than Men on Women and, statistically the highest proportion (or certainly was anyway), Women on Women in Lesbian relationships. 

2 minutes ago, BS3City said:

So the BBC won't quote the statement for legal reasons and yet it still remains on the Sag website!

Is that just stubbornness or stupidity?

#gaslogic is what it is...........

28 minutes ago, daored said:

Can you still the reverse the charges when making a call?

Apparently you can although I would imagine the Blue Few Solicitor will be too long in the tooth to fall for that one................

5 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

Neither the shocking first statement and the words of Wally includes links or numbers where people who have been victims of domestic violence could reach out for support, instead they use the text in the second statement to say what wonderful things they have done previously.

Shambles of a club, furiously trying to back track.

The one positive is that most of the Fewers can see through this nonsense.

The damage is done. The Family Club who are also everyone's second favourite football club up and down the land are no more. I suspect Cardiff City fans will still bum them for ever more but that's about it.

Many of the comments on Social media lambasting the Horse Punchers were from all around the country, people who certainly wouldn't have been waiting for Wally's "clarification" statement and who see this club as a basket case that is trying to minimise domestic violence as a "victimless" crime. That level of incompetence at staff level really does take some doing, it takes years of hard work.

The club statement that attempts to minimise the situation is still on their website which is both breathtaking and arrogant beyond belief. Forget whether the "one court appearance per month" legend should be anywhere near a football club, the Jordanian that runs the total shit show out there should have his arse booted out of it by the EFL on the grounds he has just completely failed the fit and proper owners test.

6 minutes ago, daored said:

If found guilty of either charge , I assume Wally could sack him with no compensation due ?

You can bet he has put the phone call in to the club solicitor already. 

1 minute ago, Ska Junkie said:

Sounds riveting!

I notice they had less at HOME than we took to Argyle and we played 2 games.

Coming for us, nemesis (?),watch them from the pavement, faithful and true blues etc etc.

One of the Throbbers over at North Korea Forum is claiming there were around 800 there now..........

38 minutes ago, bcfc01 said:

0-0 so far against Havant and Waterlooville.

Someone taking the piss on their little closed shop forum;

"Massive turnout of fans watching live at the Mem, must be at least 150-200. 
Fortunately I couldn't go so watching on IFollow."

Ended 0-0 against a Conference South outfit, at the Mem too. Meltdown on slaggychat incoming............

3 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Saying 'yeah, the vile, scummy, wife beating, cigar stubbing gas bastard' wouldn't be ideal then? 

Would be if I was the judge............

Surely they have had enough time to reconsider and amend that awful statement so presumably they stand by it?

Just now, Red_Alligator said:

Priceless. Cue the BEP - "Ever popular Gas go viral!", meanwhile "City ticket fiasco!". Or similar. 

Something Jamie Carragher often says, although he is referring to defending rather than club statements, is if you make one mistake don't follow it up with another. All they have to do is retract the statement, make a grovelling apology explaining that they simply got it wrong and move on to an extent. How the hell can such guff still be on the website over 12 hours later?

Rovers the "family" club, Everton the "peoples" club.................where do these people get this bollocks from? No, you're just a FOOTBALL club same as everyone else.

14 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

I rarely say anything complimentary about their fans however the majority (on social media at least) seem appalled by that statement. So credit where it’s due.

The club however are clearly intent on supporting him no matter what so it’s going to be interesting to see what spin they come out with in their next statement. Probably some kind of “treat em mean keep em keen” approach.

They'd have been better off just keeping their mouths shut rather than make themselves look utterly stupid...

Remember ladies, if some thug kicks you in the head it’s a ‘victimless crime’ 

Yet here we are, 12 hours and literally thousands of comments on social media later telling them how appalling their Statement is, AND IT STILL REMAINS ON THE WEBSITE!!

The Few are only a couple of centuries out of date with that statement. Tin Pot doesn’t start to describe them.

Just now, Scrumpty said:

“allegedly grabbed Mrs Barton by the throat and kicked her in the head outside a property”

CCTV may come into play here, as well as bodycams!

Looking at many of the properties in that area you may well be right.

4 minutes ago, BigTone said:

I sincerely hope they put their point across with their feet. I would respect them for doing so.

Would put Wael in an awkward position if they did..............

1 hour ago, MarcusX said:

From what I’ve read on here they were at a friends without the kids, they don’t live in Kew so not sure that matters? 

They are selling their house in Kew for £8.5m I believe, mind you the source is a Fewer so based on past experience there is a chance that could be 100% made up off the top of his head, but it would make sense that they are visiting friends in the area if they have lived there and could easily have been staying at their house for the night. It clearly helps that the kids weren't there to see the mayhem of either Mum or Dad or even both making complete fools of themselves obviously but you would be expecting Social Services to start taking an interest after this. My Wife who worked with perpetrators of DV for twenty odd years seems to think there might well be a flag put on that family by Social Services now (Agencies seem to communicate with each other far more effectively than they ever used to following some high profile child deaths like Baby P) on the basis that children are involved (not in the incident obviously).

15 minutes ago, Taz said:

Well quite, if the alleged incident didn't take place, then the person (whomever that is) that made the call should be prosecuted for wasting police time.

This won't just go away because his wife says it didn't happen!!

The bloke should have been banned from having any involvement in football on any level, after the cigar events at Man City.

His managerial career is just another example of how someone with a name can keep getting a job.

It's amazing how people forget about the most important people in all this..........it's the job of Social Services not to!!

36 minutes ago, Bar BS3 said:

His Mrs sounds like a delightful character aswell then..! 

Match made in heaven, and perfectly suited to his current workplace. 

You would think that Social Services would be making a visit to the Barton's to find out where the "children" were during this incident and, given that Mr Barton is either going to be found to be a wife beater or Mrs Barton a liar who phones the Police with greatly exaggerated accounts causing her husband to defend himself in court, whether there potentially is any degree of future harm that could affect them. This sort of stuff gets children living on Council Estates or in Suburbs put on "At Risk Registers" so living in Kew shouldn't make any difference?

All I will say is if my missus phoned the Police during a party and told them I kicked her in the head and that was a completely fabricated story because she just wanted to get at me for some reason or simply because she was pissed out of her mind then she wouldn't be my missus for very long........and I certainly would not be living with her by the time my first Court appearance came along.

The poster yesterday who gave us the plausible story outlining how it could all have been a crazy mistake (I'm completely guessing he is a Solicitor who has experience of these scenario's) would probably have been better off ignoring the thread..............

@PHILINFRANCEthe Police and CPS are of the opinion (that's all it is right now but presumably they believe they have the evidence to nail Barton) that JB KICKED HIS WIFE IN THE HEAD.......where I come from that's called wife beating, I know you were questioning my semantics yesterday but that's what it is to any sane person.