The Football News Thread 2022/23

[Deutsch Wolf]

No manager, not enough players: how Swindon Town were left to fall apart | Ben Fisher

The League Two club are in utter disarray three weeks before the new season with staff not having been paid in full

www.theguardian.com

Swindon are in massive amounts of trouble.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I can’t see them starting the season. Total mess.

 

[Kenny]

Liverpool introducing a new system for STH's.

Access granted via a NFC digital pass(no smart phone you can get a photo ID card). At the start of the season you can put 20 people on your friends/family list and if you cannot make it you can pass your digital ticket to them. Once the season starts no changes can be made to the friend/family list.

 

[lemonjelly]

Liverpool introducing a new system for STH's.

Access granted via a NFC digital pass(no smart phone you can get a photo ID card). At the start of the season you can put 20 people on your friends/family list and if you cannot make it you can pass your digital ticket to them. Once the season starts no changes can be made to the friend/family list.

Interesting...

*sends hasty whatsapp to darlo*

 

[The Bear]

Sounds a good system.

 

[darlowolf64]

It does sound a really good idea

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The EFL are properly hitting Derby.

At the moment they have nine senior players available, two are keepers. They have the likes of Jagielka, Stearman, Morrison etc on trial but they can't sign them as under an embargo, you can't if you have 23 players of "senior standing".

Why is it 23 and not 9? Because their whole squad got wiped out due to a Covid outbreak in January and they had to play Chorley with a youth team. All those players now count under that classification, even though none of them have played a single first team game since.

Almost as if they've got an axe to grind.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

What a terrible terrible shame.

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

my heart bleeds for them

 

[YoungWolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1417232294302130176

Blimey, there were some twitter rumours the other day about a player but I just assumed it was usual nonsense

 

[Tony Towner]

I started to post it the other day, but thought better of it. Rafa will need a new penalty taker...allegedly

 

[Lupo]

Innocent until proved Gylfi

 

[Derby Wolf]

Foreshadowing

 

[Tony Towner]

The EFL are properly hitting Derby.

At the moment they have nine senior players available, two are keepers. They have the likes of Jagielka, Stearman, Morrison etc on trial but they can't sign them as under an embargo, you can't if you have 23 players of "senior standing".

Why is it 23 and not 9? Because their whole squad got wiped out due to a Covid outbreak in January and they had to play Chorley with a youth team. All those players now count under that classification, even though none of them have played a single first team game since.

Almost as if they've got an axe to grind.

Can now sign freebies to the max of a 1 year contract

 

[Kenny]

No manager, not enough players: how Swindon Town were left to fall apart | Ben Fisher

The League Two club are in utter disarray three weeks before the new season with staff not having been paid in full

www.theguardian.com

Swindon are in massive amounts of trouble.

Looks like they are saved - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57903056

 

[Kenny]

Spectator going after a player who has made the Government look like twats

https://twitter.com/x/status/1417560450393329666

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

Good for him for seizing the initiative and getting his side of the story out first. He really does come across as an intelligent and sincere young man.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Spectator going after a player who has made the Government look like twats

https://twitter.com/x/status/1417560450393329666

Excellent response too, more power to him.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Imagine printing that front page.

"Fabian Delph isn't a paedo, so let's put a massive picture of him next to a paedo story".

 

[Tony Towner]

That's ropey. They aren't allowed to name who it is so they'll show you the 31 year old Everton International it isn't