Generic clubs in financial crisis Thread

[Mr Optimist]

I see Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward are amongst us.

Oh no they're not, so there.

[Royal With Cheese]

I see Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward are amongst us.

Oh no they're not, so there.

Yes they are.

No returns.

[Uke]

Um ..... It was one of Whistler's

[Ian Royal]

Yes, it does.

Cretin.

[Ark Royal]

Um ..... It was one of Whistler's

Aah, the house of Oscar Wilde. 'There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.'

[Silver Fox]

Um ..... It was one of Whistler's

Aah, the house of Oscar Wilde. 'There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is being frimmers or spacey'

[Uke]

Um ..... It was one of Whistler's

Aah, the house of Oscar Wilde. 'There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is being frimmers or spacey'

They're just bat's piss

[Wax Jacket]

You might want to stop talking for a miunte there champ, why don't you sit this one out for a while

I think you need to make this a bit clearer

Spacey you're wrong, stop talking shit

[SpaceCruiser]

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[Uke]

Why the abuse? Is it necessary, or maybe you have anger issues.

Think about it, in Sunday football or an ordinary park football game, do the teams squabble over which end they should be warming up? Whenever I've played my game, we always go into whichever end is vacant - it's a first come first served and I'm not bothered which end we warm up in, it makes no difference.

So, my friend, I think you're the cretin.

And your home stadium for park football with your home fan's end is????

[prostak]

Whichever end he's hallucinating it being on that particular day. As long as there are no French sitting there, especially black ones.

Anyway, back on topic. Good bit in today's Guardian Sport, a breakdown of each Premier club's finances, including debts and sources of income. Good to look at for anyone who still believes what took place in Pietown remotely approaches a 'fairytale'.

[Ian Royal]

Yes, it does.

Cretin.

Why the abuse? Is it necessary, or maybe you have anger issues.

Think about it, in Sunday football or an ordinary park football game, do the teams squabble over which end they should be warming up? Whenever I've played my game, we always go into whichever end is vacant - it's a first come first served and I'm not bothered which end we warm up in, it makes no difference.

So, my friend, I think you're the cretin.

I called you a cretin because you seem completely incapable of seeing that we deliberately provoked Preston by warming up in the half that we knew they would be, at their ground, when we should have followed convention and been polite by warming up on the side away teams use.

They quite rightly got arsey because we were bang out of order. It was funny, although I can't remember if it worked, but that doesn't change anything.

It's not first come first served FFS, and your dull experiences at some shitty little park have no relevance to a professional football team in a proper sporting stadium.

Take off those blue and white blinkers.

[Wycombe Royal]

I called you a cretin because you seem completely incapable of seeing that we deliberately provoked Preston by warming up in the half that we knew they would be, at their ground, when we should have followed convention and been polite by warming up on the side away teams use.

They quite rightly got arsey because we were bang out of order. It was funny, although I can't remember if it worked, but that doesn't change anything.

It's not first come first served FFS, and your dull experiences at some shitty little park have no relevance to a professional football team in a proper sporting stadium.

Take off those blue and white blinkers.

It sort of worked we got a 2-2 draw.

From the HNA match report:

There was controversy before the game even started, with both teams trying to warm up in the same half of the field. I can't fathom Reading's reasonings for this, but Howie refused to change ends despite repeated requests from the PNE keepers, stewards, groundsmen and somebody in a suit. This speread out over 15 minutes, with both teams cramping the far half. Finally, the man in the suit persuaded Mad Dog to take his troops into the other half, and the deserted Howie and van der Kwaak gave in and soon followed. Bizarre, but good fun to watch.

[Sun Tzu]

To be fair to Spacey you wouldn;t expect a mild mannered bloke like Mad Dog to deliberately go out to cause trouble. I can;t recall him doing anything like it before or since so perhaps it was just a genuine mistake.

[exileinleeds]

To be fair to Spacey you wouldn;t expect a mild mannered bloke like Mad Dog to deliberately go out to cause trouble. I can;t recall him doing anything like it before or since so perhaps it was just a genuine mistake.

It was no mistake! We were having a crap season, PNE were flying high...we lacked confidence and motivation, Mad Dog tried winding them up to see if we unsettle them before a game we could not possibly have expected to win.

It worked.

Great result. Great wind up. But it was rude, they were right to be a bit upset....mind games in football- who would have thought it.

[Wycombe Royal]

To be fair to Spacey you wouldn;t expect a mild mannered bloke like Mad Dog to deliberately go out to cause trouble. I can;t recall him doing anything like it before or since so perhaps it was just a genuine mistake.

It was no mistake! We were having a crap season, PNE were flying high...we lacked confidence and motivation, Mad Dog tried winding them up to see if we unsettle them before a game we could not possibly have expected to win.

It worked.

Great result. Great wind up. But it was rude, they were right to be a bit upset....mind games in football- who would have thought it.

I think that might be a whoooosh........

[Wax Jacket]

yep surprised EiL went for it tbh

[Skyline]

To be fair to Spacey you wouldn;t expect a mild mannered bloke like Mad Dog to deliberately go out to cause trouble. I can;t recall him doing anything like it before or since so perhaps it was just a genuine mistake.

It did lead to some amusing fan-written articles though. Used to be found on The Cube's site, don't know if it's still there.

[exileinleeds]

yep surprised EiL went for it tbh

Sorry. A lifetime of convincing my son I had my TV adapted to not receive soccer, some dastardly RFC supporter overwhelmed me, took me to games, home and away- the delights of Saltergate in the rain and snow and losing....the PNE game was one just about the time I started to work out why it matters.......

[rhroyal]

The best thing about Blackpool's win today was, for me, the fact that Cardiff have had their success this season based upon "financial doping". They had no right to be in the Premiership, their success on the pitch was due to foul play off it. We've already seen Palace stay in the Championship at Sheff Wed's expense. In my view, it's the second time they've gone into administration, they should have been relegated end of. With Pompey, Hull and Cardiff going into the next season staring down the barrel of a financial mess, please can the FL make tighter rules on financial regulations? It's been unfair on Pompey and Palace fans facing all the uncertainty on their club. It's been unfair on Sheff Wed who went down due to Palace's mismanagement. It could have been unfair on Blackpool and has probably been unfair on clubs who narrowly missed out on the play-offs due to Cardiff spunking money they didn't have away on the likes of Chopra. It must stop; it's a joke.