FA Cup 2014-2015

Fined £71 by FIFA.

Just waiting for Bristol City to employ McCade, McCade and sons to sue us.

Charlie Ham wrote:Fined £71 by FIFA.

Just waiting for Bristol City to employ McCade, McCade and sons to sue us.

Err, £ 71 thousand, Mr Ham.
Pretty lenient even at that, I would have thought - Splatter won't buy many FIFA delegate votes with that paltry sum.

well septic bladder has at least secured the vote from the Senegal FA in the next election

it's very weird... not that FIFA ain't one of the most incompetent and corrupt organizations around... but the rules clearly state any games an ineligible player takes part in will have the results reversed if they won...

so not sure how they justify only a financial penalty..

probably cos FIFA is only interested in money...

Still they fined us less than we got given for taking part in the game, so that's a bit of a win-win...

of course... Brizzle are 'considering their options' - so expect a whole bunch of lawsuits to be heading our way... especially if we win the damn thing.

Hopefully, the ultimate fall out will be that the club actually pays more attention to these things and doesn't let it happen again... to field one ineligible player in my lifetime would be bad enough... to do it twice just smacks of incompetence...

Ryan Giggs was at it for years, pulling out of the Welsh squad through injury only to play for the Mancs 3 days later

Campo wrote:Ryan Giggs was at it for years, pulling out of the Welsh squad through injury only to play for the Mancs 3 days later

ah, but you're forgetting... it was always one rule for Fergie, a different rule for everyone else.

westhamonkey wrote:

Campo wrote:Ryan Giggs was at it for years, pulling out of the Welsh squad through injury only to play for the Mancs 3 days later

ah, but you're forgetting... it was always one rule for Fergie, a different rule for everyone else.

Which is one of the reasons FIFA brought in the rule(s) which we have broken !

good point...

but then how come they've completely ignored them and just given us a measly fine?

Juan Mata take a bow

The kind hearted Mata realised that Cambridge players couldn't afford to give up their shirts as they had to pay for a replacement so when he swapped shirts he even offered to pay the £40 for a replacement. How many of his team mates even thought about it?

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Offering to paying for the shirt is Juan Mata

Having to pay for the shirt is a different matter altogether.


I'll get me coat........ or shirt.

JulianDicksLeftKnee wrote:Offering to paying for the shirt is Juan Mata

Having to pay for the shirt is a different matter altogether.


I'll get me coat........ or shirt.

A reminder - FA Cup FIFTH ROUND



Saturday

12:45 West Brom - West Ham
15:00 Blackburn - Stoke
15:00 Derby - Reading
17:30 Crystal Palace - Liverpool


Sunday

12:30 Aston Villa - Leicester
14:30 Bradford - Sunderland
16:00 Arsenal - Middlesbrough


Monday

19:45 Preston - Manchester Utd


Who sees an upset amongst those??!

I do !
Bradford to beat Sunderland
Palace to beat Liverpool
Blackburn to beat Stoke
I might go down the TAB and put a few bob on that!
As for the rest, Hammers, Derby, Arsenal, Man Utd and Villa to win

I'm obviously a happy boy this weekend, only the 5th time ever we've got to the quarter-finals!

Thought of you when this result came through.   Congrats .... Here's to Reading drawing Liverpool in the next round and crushing them big time. 

Jiggs wrote:Thought of you when this result came through.   Congrats .... Here's to Reading drawing Liverpool in the next round and crushing them big time. 

I'll second that. Your Russian blokes doing well this season isn't he

I was taught that if you have nothing nice to say that you shouldn't say anything

FA Cup 6th Round Draw

Liverpool v Blackburn Rovers
Bradford City v Reading
PNE or Man Utd v Arsenal
Aston Villa v WBA

Red Mancs are through , key player Phil Dowd yet again, he had a shocker last night

As if proof were needed that the magic and romance of the cup has gone - 25,000 turned up at the old Reading Elm Park in 1950 for a first round tie against Doncaster! There was never a finer site in football than Elm Park packed to the rafters! A wonderful photo which is taken from the 1949-50 RFC Handbook ...



hope you like it guys!

I'm excited!

1927 - the last and only time Reading have won an FA Cup quarter-final, beating Swansea 3-1.

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good luck today mate...

Scenes at Villa Park yesterday. The FA could throw the book at Villa for this?


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daib0 wrote:Scenes at Villa Park yesterday. The FA could throw the book at Villa for this?


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Great run by the linesman though ... !!

caught in action!!