Old joke, but... FA were so mad at Man City and Chelsea for FFP violations, they threw the book at Birmingham.
Birmingham just have less lawyers. They're every bit as guilty of ignoring FFP regs as the big boys.
Old joke, but... FA were so mad at Man City and Chelsea for FFP violations, they threw the book at Birmingham.
And in "dog bites man" news, Joey Barton is still a dirtbag.
Minor correction. Sheffield United had a 1 and done in 2006-07.
The circumstances of their clinching is a too strange to be true tale. In the Leeds - Villa match, Leeds scored while Villa had a player down injured. Rather than send the ball out, they matriculated the ball down the field and scored. Villa were incensed so Leeds manager told his team to allow Villa to score on the ensuing kickoff. The 2 points that Leeds dropped allowed the Blades to clinch.
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Yeah ... West Brom invested their golden parachute money into largely keeping the roster together and loaned in a few key players. With their instability in the boardroom (note that they STILL have a caretaker manager) one would have thought that was going to be a mess, but it somehow worked for them. Now, hopefully Villa take them out :0)
After finishing last season as the caretaker, Darren Moore was made the permanent manager right after the season ended. But he was sacked in March and replaced by the first team coach who will remain caretaker until the ends of the season.
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Salford City beat Fylde 3-0 for promotion to the Football League for the first time. They’re 60% owned by members of Man U’s Class of 92; Gary and Phil Neville, Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and David Beckham. Giggs promised Championship level football witching 15 years. It took 5 seasons after they took over to get promoted to the League. They were in the 8th tier of the pyramid when they took over and either won their league outright or made the playoffs every season.
Apparently that game drew less than 9,000 souls at Wembley ... and frankly, I never did see a still photo that revealed even one paying customer. Salford's owners have pumped insane amounts of money into simply getting them promoted to the freaking League. It's nonsense. An absolute vanity project.