by ResurrectionRooney Mon Sep 05, 2011 8:11 am
VivaRonaldo wrote: ResurrectionRooney wrote: VivaRonaldo wrote:If I could quote the great Ian Holloway
"Who are they, to tell me how to play my team".
/thread.
Ian Holloway is an arrogant, stupid prick, he completely missed the point of his club being fined, and he didn't follow through on his threat to resign. I saw him in the Sunday Mirror last week giving Jose The Special One Mourinho advice on how to be a more successful football manager.
His club were fined for fielding a weakened side, even though the players were part of his 25man squad iirc.
Yeah, and rightly so. It's because of morons like him and Mick McCarthy that sheep like you don't understand why it was though. I explained at the time why his club was deservedly fined. FYI, they weren't all from his 25 man squad, here is the thread why I explain why you're wrong.
http://www.the-playmaker.com/t2785-blackpool-fined-for-fielding-weak-team
ahlycotc wrote: ResurrectionRooney wrote:It is a disgrace to do that, a fucking complete disgrace. You can't force them to play their full side, but they should be banned from the next tournament if they take the piss.
They aren't playing with their U20 team to take the piss. First of all, the senior team hasn't been doing any better on the field. They haven't won a single match. More importantly, the FA wanted to take this opportunity to give the U20 team a challenge seeing as several of those players will be promoted to the senior team soon. The national team is in a transition right now.
I don't care if they're doing it to take the piss, I care if they're putting out a team which makes a mockery of the competition by handing unfair advantages to other teams because they're already out and they don't give a damn. If they are going to compete they should respect the competition, and if they're not going to do tat they should be thrown out.
