My view about the F.A. was confirmed when I read in The Herald that the F.A. is to dock points from Harlow Town F.C. for fielding an ineligible player in their match against Wealdstone earlier in the year.
This was an innocent mistake by the Club, as they had been told by an official that the player was in fact eligible to play. This stupid judgement will cost Harlow F.C. much needed points as the Club is battling hard not to be relegated.
Instead of hammering smaller clubs for minor errors, how about the F.A. reforming themselves for a change, stop wasting money and ensuring that England reaches the finals of the major tournaments?
The picture shows Simon Morgan (Chairman of Harlow F.C),and Eric Pickles (Brentwood and Ongar MP and Tory national Chairman) and myself, on a recent visit to the Club. See HERE & HERE.
That is is unfair, the FA are like a mini dictatorship. I hope Harlow Town have a right of appeal.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should go and see John Monks, who was Secretary of the TUC prior to Brendan Barber. He's mad on Man United and backed the PFA (Professional Footballers' Association) in their dispute with the Premier and Football Leagues, when the players were threatening to strike over the allocation of television income.
"Monks said that professional football was a precarious profession in which only a few achieved celebrity status and he praised the PFA for trying to make sure that the increased money coming into the game is shared out among all players." So he might be sympathetic.
Admittedly, my friend and I didn't find him so. We wrote to him when he ran the TUC to ask for his support for the campaign against airport expansion.
We reminded John Monks that a scientific study for the Heathrow night flights court case had found that the sleep of the people of Heathrow is disturbed 16 times a night by aircraft noise. We said, please support the hard working people of Stansted and Heathrow in our campaign against this inhuman expansion of our airports.
We received the glib reply that he and the TUC support BAA (!) and the governments case as it is in the national interest for these airports to expand and to create more jobs.
There was no response to our points about the devastating impact of aviation on the environment and climate change. No mention of what a gamble it is to base a large part of the nation's economic growth strategy on a precarious industry like aviation. No mention of the c 24% of Heathrow's staff who were made redundant during the last recession.