Bad Days In Football!! - Page 2

AccyMad · 26-02-2010, 13:21

Does anyone know why Portsmouth's point deduction is 9 - thought it was automatically 10?

VALAIRIAN · 26-02-2010, 13:25

No it is 9 in the PL, do not know why, that is the rule!!! Maybe it is that they are too big to lose 10 points

glosterred · 26-02-2010, 13:30

was wondering the same but maybe it is because there are fewer clubs than the other divisions???

lancsdave · 26-02-2010, 13:36

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Originally Posted by VALAIRIAN

No it is 9 in the PL, do not know why, that is the rule!!! Maybe it is that they are too big to lose 10 points

Technically it's more severe than football league 10 point deduction. Premier league teams have 8 less games to pull it back.

Portsmouth live on, wonder how many businesses getting 1p in the pound for supplying them will survive

VALAIRIAN · 26-02-2010, 13:41

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Technically it's more severe than football league 10 point deduction. Premier league teams have 8 less games to pull it back.

Portsmouth live on, wonder how many businesses getting 1p in the pound for supplying them will survive

That is the worst thing in all of this LD, I heard it somewhere that as part of admin, the players get paid in full, yet as you say the suppliers get next to sod all!! Not fair at all

Rob249 · 26-02-2010, 15:28

Southend players not been paid wages for february, are they going to be the next club in administration.

cashman · 26-02-2010, 15:31

its long overdue fer the powers that be,to get off the pot n bring rules out etc etc, to prevent these things. but somehow i doubt that.

caretaker · 26-02-2010, 15:38

Its not a bad little stadium, I wish it were ours.

entwisi · 26-02-2010, 15:45

Even HMRC are behind the players at pompey,

TBH teh next 18 months could see a number of clubs going teh same way chester have today. HMRC lost preferential status and that is teh reason they are now pushing so many clubs for money owed. they are efectively getting in first. problem is their demands can often be the straw that breaks teh back.

shakermaker · 26-02-2010, 15:48

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Technically it's more severe than football league 10 point deduction. Premier league teams have 8 less games to pull it back.

Portsmouth live on, wonder how many businesses getting 1p in the pound for supplying them will survive

Lord knows their programme suppliers will find it difficult to go on; they supply Crystal Palace too.

Pendle Red · 26-02-2010, 16:15

cashman · 26-02-2010, 17:14

cheers pendle red, the last guy in that summed my feelings up to a tee.

Pendle Red · 26-02-2010, 17:23

A couple more newspaper pieces:

Vast wages at the heart of Premier League's Â£3.5bn mountain of debt| David Conn | Sport | guardian.co.uk

Portsmouth are the biggest casualty of football's regulation failure | Football | The Guardian

It's sad for the fans of all these Clubs that are struggling, the Premier League, football league, FA, UEFA & FIFA to a degree all need to take a long hard look at what is happening in the game particulary the English game and come up with a way to try to even up the table with the wonky leg cause the way I see it the food on the table is only going one way with a few crumbs left for the others.

Football is at a crossroads and needs strong leadership from those within and better regulation.

Players, Managers, Directors & Chairman come & go but what always remains is the fans

loweiy · 26-02-2010, 17:57

and looking at the new embargo things are still very tight with us !!

lancsdave · 26-02-2010, 20:42

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Originally Posted by Pendle Red

A couple more newspaper pieces:

Vast wages at the heart of Premier League's Â£3.5bn mountain of debt| David Conn | Sport | guardian.co.uk

Portsmouth are the biggest casualty of football's regulation failure | Football | The Guardian

It's sad for the fans of all these Clubs that are struggling, the Premier League, football league, FA, UEFA & FIFA to a degree all need to take a long hard look at what is happening in the game particulary the English game and come up with a way to try to even up the table with the wonky leg cause the way I see it the food on the table is only going one way with a few crumbs left for the others.

Football is at a crossroads and needs strong leadership from those within and better regulation.

Players, Managers, Directors & Chairman come & go but what always remains is the fans

You can also bet that while those fans are spending what they earn grafting all sorts of hours per week and travelling up tomorrow to save the costs, the players will be in the Dunkenhalgh lording it up on money the club hasn't got. Maybe they should have put them up at the travelodge on the M65 services