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Disagree. Miliband has shown some integrity here. Mind you, he wasn't going to be very involved anyway since he's off to New York.

Sometimes a manager takes a while to find. Why they didn't hoof Thorn out in the summer I don't know. It would've made things much easier.

I think it took a lot longer than that. I wouldn't be surprised if the board arrived at the decision to bin MON and made contact with PDC before the international break. With your manager leaving the way he did, the board can't be expected to have foreseen it.

Weren't they on professional contracts though? Pompey just had kids who certainly weren't on pro deals, hence the dispensation. Would you want to put a load of 16 year olds up against seasoned pros? Yes, that would be irresponsible.

They're under no obligation to field a youth team, in fact it'd have been irresponsible to do so, and in any case that's nothing to do with why they were able to sign players. Apart from that though, spot on.

It's because they've got the best fans in the world or something. You know, that fat twat who rings that bell, and erm...

As you know sports people are entertainers, the same as actors or musicians, and generally speaking they get paid according to their appeal and/or market worth. What makes this possible is the fact that so many people willingly dip their hands into their pockets to pay ever more extortionate...

Oh, if only footballers' earnings were entirely performance-related. A running joke on one LCFC site is that Ben Marshall drives a Bentley. Can you believe that? A Division Two footballer driving fucking Bentley! Modern football is shit etc.

Apologies, I was referring to the bit where you called him a wage thief. The lad might not be good enough any more, but ultimately the decision to pay him whatever they're paying him was not made by the player. And he's got bills to pay, same as all of us, so he has no choice but to continue...

If it was you, SBT, would you ask the club to rip up your contract, knowing you might struggle to get another comparable one elsewhere?

That reminds me, if you end up at the KP (or Knighton Lane East) I'll be wanting cash up front from anyone using my private parking space.

You should see how some of them spell Leicester.

Football on a Saturday? You, sir, are mad.

I'll go to a few Barwell games next season and find out what it says.

See you all at the Kung Pao Bowl next season then?

That sums it up pretty well. After a number of clubs entered administration after relegation was confirmed but before the end of a season, thereby making the points deduction worthless, the Football League amended their rules so that they alone - not the clubs - would decide when points...

Apologies, I should clarify. For obvious reasons this season's CL places were allocated according to the 2011 rankings: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2011.html The coefficients you quote - the 2013 ones - will inform the 2014-15 European season, and they'll still...

Not one mention of Andy Impey. Shocking.

They get four as of this season, at the expense of Serie A. England and Spain (in that order) are a long, long way ahead in the coefficient rankings, so it's very unlikely either will lose a Champions League spot in the foreseeable future.

Cocked that up didn't you? :D