City Women - Champions and Continental Cup Winners 2016.

[EdenBlue]

All I know is that it was a player who turned 18 and City had an email from the FA saying she was eligible to play (not sure why her age mattered)hence the reason why City appealed and the FA very very quietly dropped the charge as they didn't have a leg to stand on. I imagine the conversation went like this:-
FA: That player is unregistered, we are going to charge you and throw you out of the competition
City: You emailed us and confirmed she was registered
FA: Oops, can we let this one slide?

She signed her first professional contract in June so perhaps it was this?

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

So the FA make a mistake and now we have to play the match against Arsenal 3 days before the last game of the season while Chelsea have a week off. Brilliant.
Let's hope we don't pick up any injuries.

FArce and Mismanagement Committee. They'd struggle to organise an U10s tiddlywinks competition!

 

[hertsblue]

Nick Cushing: Football Association 'disrespected' Manchester City
By Tom Garry BBC Sport
Manchester City Women boss Nick Cushing labelled the Football Association "disrespectful" over the re-arranged Continental Cup quarter-final.

City lost to Arsenal on Thursday, three days after being told of the new date.

The tie was re-arranged after City were cleared of fielding an ineligible player, with the FA saying it might have lost the registration form.

"We're a professional football team trying to drive this game on and that's not good enough," said Cushing.

"On Monday morning when we gave the players the day off, we thought we had Notts County in six days.

"We play on Sunday to potentially win the league and, for certain, to grab a Champions League place.

"I would have liked the respect, and to have been honoured with five or six days' preparation for that.

"To put a quarter-final of a trophy, that we hold, in two days before it - personally, I think that's a little bit disrespectful."

A statement on the FA website said: "It was significant in the opinion of the management committee, that whilst the registration form could not be located and had not been processed, that written confirmation from the FA, in the form of email, had been received by Manchester City Women FC."

Cushing said that teams cannot win games on two days' preparation.

"I really feel for the players because this wasn't their doing," he added. "They wanted this Continental Cup. It's our trophy, and we wanted to retain it, but things were taken out of our hands."

Cushing's side could win the Women's Super League One title on Sunday, but must beat the Lady Magpies and hope that leaders Chelsea drop points in their final game against Sunderland.

 

[lancs blue]

And people wonder why we've never come close to winning a major tournament since 1966.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

The FArce in a farce. Or is it a pantomime? I think they are moving their HQ from Wembers to the Whitehall Theatre now the Ardwick Hippodrome has gone! Piss up in a brewery isn't in it!

 

[CelesteItis]

The farce of the wrongly aligned player made by the FArce, was devised to stop City winning the double. It reeks of cheating.

 

[Eds]

Can you imagine the same scenario happening in the men's game with the Dippers or the shite? No neither could I so why with the women's, a sport supposedly the FA are trying to promote? Could the game not have been played next Wednesday after the last league game. Why did it take so long for the FA to make a ruling given that City had until September 17 to appeal. Two weeks to admit that they have fucked up and then they fuck us over by making us play the game two days later...

 

[mat]

David Gill in being a **** shocker?

 

[kaz7]

Are they on a mission to piss off the women in football or just bent,unbelievable

 

[cleavers]

Is today's final day being shown on TV anywhere ?