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City mostly seem to be attacking Kaboul / through the middle and crossing to the far post where Ekotto is - he's doing well. Kaboul is on a yellow so they should keep hammering that side.
A cat and his love for electrical appliances cannot be separated.
I don't know what this means!
I'm really impressed Spurs are attacking and going for the win. Screw playing for the tie.
And as I type, it's game over. I hope Khalifa bin Zayed fires Mancini, his performance has been pathetic.
Not even the inevitable pathetic display against Burnley can stop them now!
Unless Tottenham catch Arsenal, of course, which would be intensely amusing.
Wenger's constant whining about teams that doesn't treat football as a non-contact sport amuses me.
he spent the majority of his arsenal career offside as well
As a neutral it sets up a rather dull final Sunday though. CL is decided, relegation is decided and while the title itself remains up for grabs I have a hard time envisioning a scenario where Wigan go into Stamford Bridge and come away with the result needed. I guess we have the Stoke/Blackburn/Fulham battle for tenth though!
As a neutral it sets up a rather dull final Sunday though.
Right. I don't see any excitement this weekend. A slim chance Spurs can overtake Arsenal, but that's it. Still, today's game was very entertaining so you can't feel too cheated, right? Also, Mattbert deserves much more congrats than me. I'm a newbie Spurs fan and he's much more entwined with the team than I am. I adopted the team after the last WC because I really like Lennon, my girl was partial to Tottenham and they get a mention in a book by one of my favorite writers, John McGahern. Honestly, I feel like a frontrunner right now, but I never thought Tottenham would rise up the table this fast. It's still fun. I really enjoy the mix of players Spurs have and I'm very happy they went for the win today. They can be proud now.
Time to retire the Champions League name methinks.
Which "that"? Tell them they can't get blood from a stone!
Hey! I've been drinking since 2:55! Do libel suits ever actually happen?
They are very common in England, which has some of the silliest libel laws around. For example, David Moyes sued and won over Wayne Rooney's autobiography.
I am not saying Redknapp has made it up, but I don't think you should make accusations of blackmail without good evidence.
I've just finished watching the parade of missed chances on Sky Sports News and I have to say I'm glad I didn't watch the game live. I'd be lying dead on the floor with a smile on my face right now. Thank heavens they finally found the back of the net. I'm almost more relieved than elated.
In other news, Craven Cottage is a fantastic place to see a football game, even one as middling as Fulham-Stoke was tonight. There's probably not a bad seat in the whole joint, very intimate, awesome location, just a really fun little yard.
And Portsmouth are in the ####. HMRC just hit them with a 100% fine for non-payment of taxes brining their slice of the debt above 25% so are now in a position to block any CVA and force liquidation of the club.
I don't even know. But if they don't get a seed then, yeah, they'll have to play someone good instead of, say, Celtic. (Sorry!)
By the way, RB, espn is featuring a West Ham story on their soccer page. Not a happy one, I'm afraid.
But they're saying the right things, which is good. I'm not dreaming of European football or anything, but after the last few years, it would just be nice to have a couple of seasons without relegation drama or financial turmoil.
It sounds like you guys will be ok once some bad contracts come off the books. One problem may be that, next season, some strong teams look like they're coming into the EPL. Am I right to assume Newcastle is not your typical promotion fodder?
To be one of the five teams from the "Best placed teams Play-off", Spurs will have to win a single home-and-away, like Arsenal did against Celtic last year. Against one of:
-Italian fourth-place (Sampdoria -- or possibly Palermo)
-Spanish fourth-place (Sevilla -- or possibly Mallorca)
-German third-place (Werder Bremen -- or possibly Bayer Leverkusen)
-French third-place (Auxerre -- or possibly Lille, Lyon, Bordeaux or Montpellier)
- five winners of "Best placed teams third qualifying round", which is played between the second place teams from ten other countries. Which are:
Celtic
Ajax
Zenit
Dynamo Kiev
Portugal (Braga, unless they win and Benfica lose this weekend)
Romania (currently the legendary Unirea Urziceni but there are many possibilites)
Turkey (Fenerbahce or Bursaspor[?!?])
Belgium (Club Brugge or Gent)
Greece (winners of this playoff)
Switzerland (Basel or Young Boys)
Now, maybe you'd prefer to play Lyon, or maybe you'd rather play the winner of Young Boys/FC Vaslui. It seems to be random.
I would think at the very least they'd have a bit more money than most promoted teams to buy players and they should also be a bit more appealing to a player than a yo-yo team like West Brom. Going to Newcastle a player is going to feel like he has a decent chance of staying up.
VERY early handicapping of the 2010-11 relegation battle I would assume Newcastle stays up while West Brom, the playoff winner and then Wigan, West Ham and Wolves (hmmmm...what's with the "W" teams?) in the relegation fight. Stoke's "draw at all costs" approach could bite them in the ass at some point and I wonder if Birmingham City has a Reading like collapse in them.
Only uncertainty (as always) is that nobody knows what the hell Mike Ashley is going to do. He could invest or he could decide to sell and no transfers are made.
I hope Nottingham Forest gets promoted. I just like the name Nottingham Forest.
I'd put them as favourites for the playoffs. None of those 4 sides will stay up, though.
That said, seeding may not rule out a potential tie against Ajax and Martin Jol, who managed to finish second in the Eredivisie with a +86 goal difference (and over 100 goals).
If I thought Fulham was going to field a real team Saturday...
Perhaps they'll ask the Premier League to give them their parachute as a lump sum. It seems like best case would have them going down to League 1 and hanging there for a couple of years.
And I, for one, think you'd look great in their uniform. Talk to Roy -- he's having a special this weekend only.
Portsmouth has failed as a business, so it's up to the creditors to decide the future. The options are either (1) write off debts/inject capital such that the business can exit administration and go along its merry way, or (2) liquidate the business - that means sell off everything you can sell off, and the business is no more. In Portsmouth's case, liquidation is pointless - they don't own their stadium, training ground or anything else. All they have is player contracts (which are also liabilities in terms of wages) and if the club no longer exists, those contracts are void. No-one will buy players off Portsmouth in liquidation proceedings, they'll just wait a couple of weeks and sign them as free agents. So if they liquidate, the creditors will get absolutely nothing.
But the club does have one very valuable asset which cannot be sold - membership of the Championship for the 2010/11 season. So the proposal is that the creditors will simply write off 75% of the debt, and assume ownership of the club - and hence the asset. You are quite right that any other business would be liquidated - as you say, they owe a giant pile of money to everyone. But because liquidating the club would destroy a valuable asset, the creditors won't do that - they'd rather have the asset than nothing.
But they'd lose that asset if the Football League kicked them out - if that happened, they might as well liquidate. And if they don't pay 100% of what they owe to their football creditors (meaning players, transfer fees to other clubs, etc), then they will be kicked out. So the proposal the administrator is putting to the creditors will see the football creditors get paid every penny, and the other unsecured creditors lose out very badly. Gaydamak, al-Fahim, etc will go along with this because the alternative is getting nothing. But the Inland Revenue (i.e. the taxman) will do everything possible to stop this happening, because
1) They're the government so they can afford to take a long view
2) They don't agree with the League's rules about unsecured creditors
3) They think that what's going on here is manipulating the insolvency rules
And the Revenue are, of course, right.
So I totally disagree with you about the best case, RB. If they can exit administration before the start of next season and find a buyer, they can absolutely be a reasonable Championship club - and perhaps come back to the Premiership in a few years. It actually rather stinks - which is why the Revenue are so pissed off.
Hope this helps.
Yeah, in a version of FM from a couple years ago my primary save was with Solihull Moors, because I thought Solihull Moors was a sweet name. Also, I kept calling my team "Solihull Moops" in my head.
What happens if they go belly up before the season starts? Does the loser of the League One playoff get promoted? Does the Championship have just 23 teams? There must be a contingency if that occurs.
"VT FC"? Why on earth would you give up a name like "Vosper Thornycroft"? Could there ever be a better name than "Vosper Thornycroft" for anything?
That was really great, thanks much.
The only precedent in the English leagues is Maidstone's resignation just before the start of the 1992-3 season. They were in the bottom league (current equivalent of league 2) anyway, so there was no knock on effect. The league did not bring anyone else in to replace them. No team in a higher division has ever dropped out before the start of the season or resigned during it.
Alou's explanation of Portsmouth's situation is excellent, btw. There is a war brewing between the UK tax authorities and the Football authorities over the "football creditors" rule.
Yes. It is an unfortunate moniker for Fulham.
Excellent. Evidently, Joe Cole is pushing to join Spurs, too. For me, I'd be happy if the team kept its young players and then add depth for next season. I don't think I'd want the team to go nuts and try to add a star. Just build around Modric and Bale and Dawson and add depth for the inevitable injuries and so you have a kick ass B team for the domestic cup competitions. You think they'll keep Gudjohnsen around?
I don't put much stock in this rumor, particularly when the source in the same breath says he's looking for over £100k/week. That's about £40k/week more than the current top earners at Spurs make. I doubt Levy will significantly alter the current wage structure until, at the earliest, the season before the proposed new stadium is due to open. There are some players out there who might tempt him to open the purse strings sooner, but Joe Cole ain’t one of them. Nice player, but I think last year's knee injury effectively ended his time as one of the elite players in England.
You think they'll keep Gudjohnsen around?
I think they'll try. His price tag may have gone up now that Monaco can start negotiations with Spurs by saying, "Well, now that you might have all that Champions League money to spend..." I really hope they are able to work something out because I've been hugely impressed with Gudjohnsen. Besides his obvious skill and footballing intelligence, having a guy in the squad who's been to the Champions League before would have considerable value.
That would be a nice chunk of change for Burnley, they seem like a good bounce back candidate.
The Fair Play teams start in the first qualifying round of the Europa League, which means a lot of games (and travel) before you can actually make any money. I wouldn't be surprised if Burnley would actually prefer working on their Championship campaign (the teams coming down for the Premiership are unusually weak this year).
Fulham vs. FK Vetra looks like Inter/Barca compared to the prospective Burnley vs. EB/Streymuir matchup we could have this summer. I think we should all hope for them to end up playing one of the runners-up in the Northern Irish or Welsh leagues.
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