marco
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i always said that Everton v Wimbledon game was never bent,how could it have been ;-)
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The Telegraph set to release evidence of corruption in the Premier League withing the coming days
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Makes you wonder if there's an old boys network that would happily let their teams roll over and have their bellies tickled in return for receiving former players of the club.
You have absolutely no evidence that this happens and you're out of order for even suggesting..oh, wait a sec, err, as you were.Makes you wonder if there's an old boys network that would happily let their teams roll over and have their bellies tickled in return for receiving former players of the club.
Prestwich_Blue
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The game has been corrupt in one way or another almost since it began as an organised professional sport. We were nearly destroyed as a club in 1906 over the issue of illegal payments to players and alleged bribery of opponents. Of course everyone else was illegally paying players but it suited the authorities to pick on moneybags City. Then a few years later, there was the bribery case of the rags v Liverpool game, where there was a betting coup plus the rags desperately needed the points to avoid relegation.I've felt the game was corrupt for a while now
More recently my eyes were opened at the end of the 2005/6 season when Arsenal (who were 4 points behind fourth place Spurs with a game in hand) played that game in hand against us at CoMS. Despite not making any major decisions (such as penalties or red cards) the referee, Graham Poll, did a great job (in my view) of ensuring an Arsenal win. Nothing too blatant but disrupting our game and giving them free kicks, plus pulling us back for free kicks on a few occasions when we had a clear advantagea There was one occasion where we had a clear run on goal until Poll pulled play back for our free kick. To be fair, Arsenal almost certainly deserved the win in the end but the score was level until the last quarter. And of course Spurs had that mysterious good poisoning incident in the run-up to their last game at West Ham, in which a win would have seen them finish 4th.
manimanc
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Have the hateful eight been revealed yet?
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Enjoyed it did you?Spurs had that mysterious good poisoning incident
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Makes you wonder if there's an old boys network that would happily let their teams roll over and have their bellies tickled in return for receiving former players of the club.
I've said for years the apparent ease with which the rags get rid of fringe players that haven't even made their first 11 to other PL sides managed by ex rags is frankly laughable.
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Surely we know three already, it's the other 5 we want to know.Have the hateful eight been revealed yet?
MillionMilesAway
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Being greedy isn't illegal on its own, and he did say he'd have to run it past his employer first.
It would be really difficult for the FA to enforce rules while employing a manager who advocates how to avoid those rules, and claims to know that other managers are also breaching those rules.
MillionMilesAway
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That's an envelope not a bag, you need a bag. Come on ffs!
But if you move past envelopes, doesn't that just get you the sack?