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The Royal Spanish Football Federation runs football in Spain from top to bottom.

Barcelona were last seasons Champions and are members of the RSFF.

Deutscher Fußball-Bund is the governing body of football, futsal, and beach soccer in Germany, running it from top to bottom.

Bayern Munich were last seasons Champions and are members of the DFB through the DFL as are all German Clubs.

The Italian Football Federation manages and coordinates the Italian football league system from top to toe. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the Italy national football team (men’s), women’s, and youth national football teams. The Italy national futsal team also belongs to the federation.

Napoli were the Italian Champions in 2022-23 and… you’ve joined the dots together – are members of the IFF.

Riddle me this.

When the Premier League was formed in 1992, the clubs involved all resigned from the FL/EFL

None of the clubs in today’s PL are members of the EFL.

EFL – English Football League
Therefore – the League of English Football.

If the Premier League sits outside and aside from the EFL, then is there a challenge to be made here?

If they are not part of the EFL, then last years English Champions must have surely been Burnley?

So, should Burnley, Sheff Utd, Luton & Middlesbrough be representing England in the Champions League this season?

Premier League – they want their cake and to eat it.

EFL should close the doors on the clubs finishing in the relegation places of the PL. Let’s see how interesting and exciting it is when it’s the same old, same old season after season.

The German, Spanish & Italian representatives in the Champions League are all respective members of that country’s Administrative Federation.

England’s representatives aren’t.

It’s Kerry Packer football !
Challenge it!

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Crap prediction.

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Iron 1-0 Celtic

Celtic 1-1 Iron

I reckon we’ll take four points from the double header.

Tamworth 2-1 Olympic

Olympic 1-1 Tamworth

Bank holiday fixtures tend to throw up some ridiculous scores due to beer, food, partying etc.

To be honest, anything could happen.

Ding, ding; R2

I’m going to stick with my 1-1 draws for Scunny & Tammy.

The weather is going to be poor, heavy rain 80% likely at Farsley.
It’ll be a scrappy, ugly, poor game with the highlight the bovril, pie & chips at half time.
UTI

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1992-93 was the inaugural Premier League season.

Since it’s inception, only Premier League teams have won the EFL Cup.

The last team from outside the Premier League to win the League Cup / EFL Cup was Sheffield Wednesday in 1990-91.

Wednesday were on a one year secondment to the second tier that season… lol.

Yes MASTERS!

So, for the last 31 years the EFL have allowed and being happy to let non EFL members win their trophy.

Will an EFL team ever win the EFL Cup again?

You couldn’t make it up!

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Did any young (20s) guys or girls sign up?

A lifetime of football for a token, if we survive.

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The Premier League don’t need the EFL ‘feeder leagues’.

The Premier League clubs buy whomever they want from whatever league in the World that they want.

A death knell.

EFL are paupers and constantly begging for scraps from the PL.

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cassidystash wrote:

Need to be talking to some players/agents in January to agree reduced terms for next season. A significant reduction for some should still be attractive in NL/NLN.

Agreed… but how do you sell that one?

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The optimal group size for decision making is 7(+/−2) members.

Slightly larger gatherings may be thought to be more representative?

JC had a ‘committee’ of 12 – his being the 13th voice.

Always have an odd number.

Nothing worse than ‘no decision’.

You can only get the begging bowl out so many times.

Scunthorpe has a small population and doesn’t even have the pull of a Leeds United… lest alone a Manchester United.

How do you get businesses to throw money at sponsorship… what returns do they see? We ain’t a high profile club!

Better to flip it on its head and eliminate waste first.

It’s said that Rodwell was on £250k a year when he was there. Wasn’t Mayo on about £150k a year too?
I wonder what Wallace’s annual salary was. £100k?

That’s a lot of money for little old Scunthorpe United.

Trim the squad, trim the playing wages, no agents fees, fewer stop overs, less salubrious hotels, less salubrious bus, fewer complimentary tickets, bin the third kit (how many do we sell a year?), online only shop, would we get larger crowds playing Friday night / Sunday lunch times? Less competition.

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Wham & SUFC – both No1 at Christmas!

UTI

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King Leonidas might have said:

“This is where we play them, this is where we fight, this is where they lose!”

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1-1

Over optimistic – deadlock at no goals apiece.
Two points lost yesterday?

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1-1 is the shortest score cast price at 5/1 (Head)

1-3 to the Iron will be my selection at odds of 14/1 (Heart)

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Congratulations to Wham on making it to the Christmas No1; 39 years after it was first released!

That’s Andrew & George; not Davide or David or Dave or Rodney or whatever his name was.

Maybe it’ll be a good Christmas after all?

Here’s to a great 2024!

Last Christmas, I gave you…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67800521

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Northumbiron wrote:

Rearranged for Tuesday 6th of February.

Third time lucky?

Forecast has the north of the country snowbound then.

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Sanfran49 wrote:

The New Show Ground.

The New Shoe Ground

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Deereyme66 wrote:

12/30 for me (without any hints). Rubbish.

https://fourfourtwo.kwizly.com/fourfourtwo.php?code=eA6QgW

11/30 no hints
Not my cup of tea, premier league or and international football

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For me, next season (24-25) is all about securing a mid table spot in the NL and ensuring that we start 2025-26 in the stated league.

Let’s not chase a quick return to the EFL. We need to be debt free and a self sustaining business before we go chasing promotion to L2.

I’d prefer a few seasons in the NL and the club having no financial hangovers than running up debts chasing a dream too soon.

Same squad will do me for next season.
We need to galvanise a team where the output is greater than the sum of its parts.

We need a Wimbledon type mentality in the coming seasons, both on and off the pitch.

UTI

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It might even be worth paying a ‘lose bonus’… we don’t want any slip ups and a win.
A mid-week home match in the next round would cost money and be a further injury risk hurdle to avoid.
I’ll be very happy with a 0-1 defeat tomorrow evening.

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A must lose game.

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They appear to be the away day draw specialists having drawn five of their ten games on the road.

Great victory.
We’re stretching the chasing pack now!
Ten points clear of the third placed team.
Pedal to the metal – grind them in to the dust over Christmas!
Let’s shake Tamworth off!
UTI !

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Att: 3,281
[Inc 101 Chorley fans]

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League Winner Odds
(Sat 16th Dec, 1pm)

Scunthorpe 4/7
Tamworth 5/2
South Shields 10/1
Chester 16/1
Chorley 33/1
Brackley Town 50/1
Spennymoor 66/1
Hereford 150/1
Carson Ashton 150/1
Alfreton 200/1
Southport 200/1
250/1 and bigger the rest.

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Lol, not like he’s got much else to do.

Who does it these days, James?

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If the shortest correct score price is 11/2… why are we 7/10 (odds on) to win the game and the game to end in a draw is 13/5 ?
Chorley to win are 3/1

Yet, the stats say that the most likely result is a 1-1 draw.

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We can’t exceed our FL or EFL record number of goals scored as we aren’t in the EFL.

We won’t exceed our Non League record (133) of goals scored in a season.
We’d need to score 88 goals in the remaining 25 games.

The author / editor of the programme should know that and should be more accurate with their narrative.

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1938-39 we scored 133 goals from 42 games.

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Get down the sides to the line, whip the ball in to a ‘big un’ and a ‘quick un’ in the box.

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I like width.
Cutting inside makes the (already) small pitch even smaller and you run in to more ‘traffic’

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I’ve said for a few years that ultimately football will end up a non contact sport like basketball.

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