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Another point is that she probably knows the Offside Law better than Andy Who? ever did

A bit cheeky, that! She's actually a very good ref. I went to a game a couple of years ago (Stafford Rangers v Stalybridge) and I have to say she got everything right...and what's more, not a cheep out of the players! I can well remember her giving a stern lecture to one of the Stafford defenders, him being about 18 inches taller than her, and it was 'yes miss, no miss, O.K. miss' and so on.

Chris Hughton has been sacked by Newcastle United.

Absolutely ridiculous decision.

Mike Ashley, is an idiot.

Spot on, that man! Sorry for the edit.

Russia won the 2018 World Cup bid - and I think BBC Panorama has a lot to answer for.

 

You don't accuse the voting committee of corruption a week before the final decision and voting is taken. One week later - that's all it would have taken, frankly.

 

Hard hitting journalism - a political agenda at the centre of it?

Are you syaing that all the frantic last-minute lobbying really made any difference? Most peoples' minds were made up long ago, methinks. Most of the attacks on the BBC have come from papers with a political agenda against the BBC, including one owned by a rival TV owner who would like nothing more than to see the BBC disappear; and another who have kept strangely quiet about their sister-paper's stitch-up of Lord Treisman, and who have had a long-standing anti-BBC bias.

Northwest Tonight last night? I thought it was hilarious!

As soon as I saw this, I knew where it was, it's so distinctive; however, I can't do the uploading bit, so I'm not going to give anything away.

Unless someone could tell me how?

Something like this you mean?

 

 

Incidentally, Lancaster City are still called Town by the locals despite changing the name to City in 1937. Things take a while to catch on up here.

 

Geoff.

Aaah, The Giant Axe; a great ground for trainspotters. Unfortunately the only time I've ever been, the WCML was closed. However, it was nice to put one over on Mexican Phil.

There are, at the back of RCTS 'Locomotives of the LNER' Part 2B, diagrams of a rebuilt B7 with 100A boiler and 2 B1-type cylinders; the original B1 diagram, and a B1 rebuilt with a standard BR3 boiler, from 1953. In the same publication part 5, there is a diagram of a proposed J21 rebuild for the darlington - Tebay services. This had 2-off 19"x 26" inside cylinders with 8" piston valves, J39 - type frames, a boiler at 200psi and an enclosed 2-window cab.

Also, I remember an article of might-have-beens in 'Backtrack' which included a diagram for a Great Eastern 4-4-0 mixed traffic loco dated 1915. It looked similar to a 'Belpaire Claud', but had 5' 7" drivers.

There's few for the LNER types to be going on with! Where would the GE 4-4-0s have been numbered in the Thompson renumering scheme? 2621-2649?

Isnt Leeds owned by that nice chap Ken Bates ? you know the one, the one who buys clubs for a pound, makes em bankrupt to clear debts, then buys em again. Or is it some one else ?

He says he is not the owner. Apparently, HMRC would like to know who the true owner is. The club is owned by one of his (offshore) companies. As to the administration event: most of Leeds' debts were allegedly to companies owned by Bates, so that the approval of the CVA was dead easy. It was this financial finesse that caused the 15-point deduction, and which has created so many problems for clubs trying to exit CVAs, especially where HMRC is concerned. You acn bet if they are the major creditor, they will veto any CVA that does not pay them in full.

Praise The Lord! We (Leeds Utd)Anyone else out there who has/is suffered/suffering the same sort of despair with their club, over the years?

Well, the Chester supporters, over the last 11 seasons have been well and truly f****d over by their successive owners, culminating in last season's debacle. leeds, on the other hand, still have a club to support. We don't know who owns it, but that's a by-the-by.

Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity.

 

I took a coaching course with this chap, no idea what he was thinking. He'd been involved in a meaningless bit of handbags earlier on that got him and the other player a chewing out. We came out for the second half and I asked him to keep his head in the game, then he gets himself sent off with a stupid "professional" foul.

 

"I just did what I had to do" Yes, maybe you did, now I'm doing what I have to do, bye. I can't remember the last player I sent off, but he had to go. He went without much ado, and his teammates knew it was the right decision, no complaints from them.

 

The one I like, and we don't use it over here, is OFFINABUS (Offensive Insulting Abusive language). Here it's just AL Abusive Language. DOGSO actually just gets written up as DGF.

You had one assistant, you lucky b****r! I've recently had two (junior) semi-finals; although I should have had assistants, in both cases I was on my own, even the team managers were a bit peeved. Luckily nothing controversial happened.

Funny you should mentioned Offinabus; on my report cards, that's how that sending-off is given.

I missed the game on TV, and only caught 10 minutes on the radio as I was heading pub-wards. Even in that short period, Chris Waddle could be heard tearing his hair out over the diving and general cheating going on.

 

I think you're right about English football - I watch MOTD regularly, and cringe at the amount of pathetic behaviour, including diving. But then, I see a single game involving (usually) a Spanish or Italian team, and it's twice as bad as anything the PL can offer.

 

That's not to excuse the English game, however, and you're right to point out that so-called "simulation" is cheating, pure and simple. Unfortunately, I think that, until UEFA and FIFA admit that cheating is a problem which risks ruining the game for many fans, nothing will be done about it.

 

You may ask what can be done, especially if the referee is unsure? Me, I'd start having review panels after every televised game. Any contentious incident (including red cards, diving or whatever) would be analysed, and action taken accordingly. Diving? Two-game ban (or more), straight away. You might argue that this wouldn't affect the result, but if enough managers found themselves missing important players for crucial matches, they'd find ways of stopping their players from making asses of themselves.

Simulation, or 'diving', has been a cautionable offence for some time now; at least three seasons, if my memory is correct of when we received the instruction to caution for simulation. The problem at the top level, given the speed of the game, is detecting what is simulation and what is a genuine foul.

So, Mr Administrator has finally published how much Pompey are in debt. A cool £120,000,000.00 . To put this into context, that's Cristiano Ronaldo, Robinho & Sebastian Bassong in one go!

 

Seriously though, that is one hell of a lot of money and how this will be paid off is anyones guess. That said, the answer will probably be very simple - CVA. Obviously that means that some will get nowhere near as much back as what they are owed...some suggestions are as low as 10p in the £.

 

As I have mentioned here before, there are some that I really do not care about. Some of our previous owners should be hit hard in the pocket...a lot of damage has been caused by people who patently have no idea about how a football should work. Yet there are those businesses that cannot afford to loose such large percentages of money they are owed, that said liquidating the club would not help either...I very much doubt Pompey have half that amount in assets.

The twohundredpercent site is suggesting the taxman will reject any CVA, though; especially one with as low a payoff as that. And quite right too. Why should my taxws subsisdise an impecunious football club?

If anything good can come of the sad demise of Chester, it is that messers Vaughan and Maison are no longer (currently) involved with football. Here Here

 

I hope they aren't ever again.

 

In better news;

 

This week I got a very competitive quote for a 100 seater stand for Hailsham Town FC. When I say very competitive, it's still nearly 20k, but a lot better than other prices I'd noted. Currently planning fundraising campaigns - including letters to the '92', as well as the 12 SPL clubs, for Merchandise to auction off/offers of presason friendlies.

 

If anyone wants to contribute, contact me - 'The RMWeb Stand' has a nice ring to it...

 

Also; Week off work booked after Easter - I'll be spending it doing some painting at the ground, as well as digging out the footings for a new hardstanding path on two sides of the pitch.

 

On the pitch, we go to Shoreham tomorrow - a ground I've not done before, which is always nice, and the Youth Team are at home on Sunday morning, so that'll be another game (taking me close to 50 for the season I would have thought)

Is that one of those bolt - together arena stands?

 

One club (mabye Rotherham) took further advantage of the points deduction by waiting until just before the final whistle on the last day of the season where the right result would've kept them up and went into administration when it became clear they would be relegated anyway, took the points deduction at the end of that season rather than the start of the next and prompted a further revision to the rules. Leeds got a double hit for the method they came out of administration (there is something shady about going into administration then the club being sold back to the person who put them in, even the administrator in that case strikes you as somewhat iffy)

 

Spare a thought for Farsley Celtic who have just gone out of business in much the same way Chester City did, both having their results for this season wiped from the records.

Leeds did that as well. The Chester collapse has at least got rid of one rogue from the game.....now how do we get rid of KB?

That DB West Coast Pendo looks quite good. At first glance I thought it was an ICE3.

United tapping up players - Try Berbatov as an example, soon as he heard Sir alex was intrested his form went right off eventualy refusing to play for Spurs till he got his move. Still we did get a lot of money and its no point keeping a player who doesnt want to be there

You can add Ruud van Nistelrooy, probably, and Arjen Robben certainly, to that list as well. The reason the latter signed for Chelsea was that the PSV president said that he would never have dealings with United again.