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Did anyone really fall for this latest nonsense? Oh what a surprise that it came, along with another appalling PR exercise in Milton Keynes, just a day before the Football League board met to decide on their move to a temporary home from Christmas.
Surely they weren’t trying to put pressure on the Football League to decide in their favour, after all they wouldn’t do this. They have done everything by the book, or so they tell us.
The Football League have let the game down very badly on a number of issues recently but hopefully this will be the time they get it right and say no to this despicable shower. Today they at least failed to give permission asking for further information, John Nagle of the Football League said, "The board has requested that Wimbledon FC supply further information relating to this application to enable it to make a fully informed decision."
Please Football League, call their bluff and say no. So what if they close down, I’m not sure anyone cares any longer. Apart from a young kid in Milton Keynes who had a team photo yesterday. When asked who his favourite player was he said the one who had signed his photo although he had no idea who he was.
Get rid of them whilst we still have the chance.
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The crazy Dutchman has this week suddenly decided that we need to change the rules and has even advocated scrapping the offside law.
Van Basten was a great player who played in great teams. He played in the Dutch side that was so successful in the early 90s and also in the AC Milan side, alongside the likes of Ruud Gullit, that won all before them in Italian and European football.
Who can forget his spectacular goal in the European Championships of 1988 as the Dutch lifted the trophy?
So why can’t he leave the game alone. It is a simple game that works well but no he has to go and suggest ridiculous changes that nobody wants and nobody needs.
Sorry but I much prefer to remember Van Basten as a great Dutch striker.
And onto third place and moving up from the also rans from last week is Chief Executive of the Football Association Adam Crozier.
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At a time when the game is suffering at all levels financially this looks to be one of the most obscene decisions ever taken. I know the money couldn’t be used as handouts but already since the decision to go ahead was made one club, Barnsley, have gone into administration.
Others look set to follow and Leicester and Coventry are the latest to ask their players to take a pay cut. Leicester’s shares have been suspended and they look as though they could be the next to follow Barnsley.
The Football Association is responsible for football at all levels in this country, or so they would have you believe but it seems they are intent on throwing all this money at a stadium that will be built in the most inappropriate of places and looks set to be of great benefit to the prawn sandwich set.
Never has the timing for such an outlay been so bad and surely there is no way on earth that this sort of cost can be justified.
Mr. Crozier seems to think so and will carry on regardless. I just wonder how many of the current 71 Football League clubs (franchised clubs cannot be included) will still be around when it finally opens.
In what has been a quiet week following the hectic days of the week before we also still had nominations for Tony Livesey high enough to almost keep him in the top three alongside all the referees who in a recent survey believed they were doing a good job.
Needless to say there were also nominations for a manager of a Lancashire club whose ground is nearer to the M65 than any other and the manager of a South Yorkshire club based in the city where the Clarets won last week, although not the same club. But then it wouldn’t be Tw*t of the Week if those two didn’t receive nominations.
That’s week 9 then so onto week 10 and your chance to choose the next winner. You have until midnight next Thursday to decide and send us your NOMINATIONS and next Friday the winner will be revealed.
The winners so far:
Week 1 – Roy Keane (Manchester United)
Week 2 – Jeff Winter (Referee)
Week 3 – Football League’s Football Disciplinary Commission
Week 4 – Alex Ferguson (Manchester United manager)
Week 5 – Luton Town supporters
Week 6 – Barry Knight (Referee)
Week 7 – Burnley FC Showboaters
Week 8 – Tony Livesey (Editor Sunday Sport)
Week 9 – The Directors and Owners of Franchise FC