That's a surprise

[selby]

  So we will be playing Wycombe and not Derby County next season after the EFL decided they had little chance of overturning the fine imposed by an independent tribunal ( AHEM).
  So the little club suffers again. Why oh why cant we get rid of this seemingly useless set of pigs in the trough and start running a league for every participant in the competition instead of letting a few clubs completely monopolise the competition and bend over a style to be thoroughly shafted every time by the city clubs.

[LincsRover]

Couldn’t agree more Selby, absolute disgrace but no surprise at all, the EFL are f* k*ng corrupt to the core and always favour the ‘bigger’ club, no matter how much of a lunatic asylum they are. Ridiculous!

[roversdude]

I agree no surprise but it is so wrong and things need to change

[John Fitzpatrick]

Yes you are so right
just look how many televised games they have been  given  in August
that will more than pay there fine
corrupt

[John Fitzpatrick]

not a newbie  iam NORTIKORNER change password

[drfchound]

not a newbie  iam NORTIKORNER change password

Why the change of moniker mate.

[John Fitzpatrick]

dont know mate just change password and gave me my name

[Campsall rover]

  So we will be playing Wycombe and not Derby County next season after the EFL decided they had little chance of overturning the fine imposed by an independent tribunal ( AHEM).
  So the little club suffers again. Why oh why cant we get rid of this seemingly useless set of pigs in the trough and start running a league for every participant in the competition instead of letting a few clubs completely monopolise the competition and bend over a style to be thoroughly shafted every time by the city clubs.

It’s a joke Brian. Seriously something wrong with the way the game is administered.
They make it up as it goes along. In which other Sports do we have this fiasco. This is our no 1 National Sport and it is administered by amateurs.
When will things change?  Now, 5 years, 10 years, Ever.   

[roversdude]

Well it’s fair to say that cheats do prosper and for the EFL to just accept it verges on criminal

[goalkick]

How are these people who run EFL elected and who gets to vote for them.is it a closed shop?

[silent majority]

I’m not sure how many times I’ve answered this question on here, but the EFL is run by the clubs themselves.

There is no separate authority and all rules and by-laws are voted on by the clubs.

So, who elects them? Well it’s simple the clubs do.

[the vicar]

I don’t know why everyone is so shocked, it happened every time a big club breakers the law.  And the lesser clubs suffer, just like Bolton with us and then there was Bury fc

[ravenrover]

Wonder what Windies think about it, wasn't their points deduction for the same thing?

[BobG]

The criticisms of the management of English football goes back decades. The grey beards will remember that The Valley Party succesfully got a Charlton Athletic supporter elected to Greenwich Borough Council in 1990 to publicise the shambles that the FA and FL were presiding over.

Going back further, it took The Billy Goat (aka Jimmy Hill) in 1961 to force the FA and FL to step into the postwar world by forcing them to abolish the maximum wage.

It was the FA and FL who refused to allow English clubs to take part in European competitions for year after year.

And, worst of all, it was the forever accursed FA sitting supinely on its hands that allowed the birth in 1992 of that magnificent example of private greed masquerading as public benefit; the Premier League and its Sky TV fellow traveller. They are both a direct consequence of the inability of the FA to govern anything at all.

Football, for decades, has been the one of the very worst managed, worst led industries in Britain. If you ever make a list of the scandals that the FA and FL have swept under the carpet, you will surprise yourself. Or maybe you won't.... Here's a couple to start you off:

The appointment of Sam Allardyce as England manager. A surprise to nobody except the FA when it blew up in their face.
The bungs that even Saint Alec Ferguson was moved to write about
The uselessness of the 'fit and proper person test'' they had to be forced by the Labour government to introduce after the shambles that surounded Brighton and Donny Rovers in 1999 (and, of course a dozen other identical examples in the years since 1990)
The appointment and swift removal of Graham Bean as the FA's first, and for quite a while, last Compliance Officer.
Junketing writ large. Even as far back as the 60's and 70's junketing was a firm FA favourite. I bet you didn't know that right through the 60's and into the 70's FA personnel travelled first class to England away matches. Guess what class the players and coaching staff travelled.....

The FA? It will surprise none of you to hear me repeat that I despise them.

Cheers

BobG

[foxbat]

Good analysis  there Bob,  and only scratches the surface . Are , and have always been in recent memory  contemptible.

[Barmby Rover]

So called big club breaks the rules, nothing happens. Lesser club breaks the rules, close them down. It depends on the corrupt at the top of the FA/EFL/Premiership and how much "influence" you carry as to your treatment. That is no way to administer a competition, and that is why any of these bodies are not even worthy of contempt.

[roversdude]

Past mistakes would be more bearable if lessons were learned but it’s like Groundhog Day. Passing matters to an independent enquiry just delays matters. To quote The Stranglers “ Something Better Change”