Pope John XXIII - 23/5/2017 05:21
Mark2310 - 22/5/2017 23:50
PVH - 22/5/2017 19:51
All clubs have a deadline by which they name their squads don't they? Now unless they've fielded players that are ineligible to play in that squad and subsequently fielded said players, I fail to see what Huddersfield had done wrong personally. In fact I don't see the case to answer.
You name a squad of say 22 players, a club and coach/manager is entitled to use those 22 players as and when they see fit.
I found it embarrassing that posters on here were actually whining about this in the first place.
And you can be absolutely certain sure that there is no connection friendship or past dealings between either owner or managers of the two clubs?
This is a competition and if that wasn't enough in its own right it certainly is up and down the country on a Sunday morning these games are at the top of the pyramid which means that millions are being gambled directly on them and millions can be and were at stake in this particular case
Every fan up and down the country turns up to their respected club spend a small fortune doing it and deserve as fair a result across every stadium as they can get and that equally applies to video technology and anything else that preserves the integrity of the result
You allow your logic to run rife and its a matter of time before some club or another completely throws a game to the detriment of a local rival
Would you be Ok if a manager to instructed players to not tackle to avoid injury for a keeper to not dive for the same reasons or to use the game as an opportunity to try out a revolutionary formation of 1-1-8 under the auspice of it being his team to do as he see's fit?
Football is rife with corruption teams that do this Man Ure being another are the thin end of the wedge where there seems to be endless debate of what is patently wrong in the spirit of the game
Spot on.
The idea that "It's their own fault for being in that situation" is as immoral as the act itself.
We can extend that to any area of society- it's the fault of poor that they are exploited, etc.
Every team deserves to earn every place on merit. Even if that is a relegation place.
You earn each place in the League over 46 nearly top level fixtures. How are those places earned on merit if one club has to play only 45 top level fixtures plus a youth team/reserve game.
Did Birmingham earn their 54 points on merit? 51 of them yes. We and Blackburn earned our 51 points completely on merit with 46 hard fixtures. Who knows how many points Birmingham would have earned if they had played the same number of second level fixtures as us.
But Blackburn are rightly aggrieved and Huddersfield's lofty arguments of privilege really rankle to be honest. The idea that once you are down at the bottom you lose your right to fairness and a level playing field is for the birds I'm afraid.
I very much hope in the future one of these clubs is in the position to teach Huddersfield a lesson about this.