Leicester cheating again

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  1. Gor

    Gordon Ottershaw Well-Known Member

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    Once again Leicester got promoted by cheating and overspending. This is the club that forced the Football League/FA to start issuing points deductions for going into administration, after they blatantly used admin to clear their debts, before spending tens of millions on new players. Then they got over £100m in debt once again, but sold their ground to their owner at a vastly overinflated price. And now we learn they got promoted once again by overspending.

    I dislike this club more than Millwall or even Leeds. Horrible club, horrible fans.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cnv113m0n4qo
     
    Gordon Ottershaw, May 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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    Don't forget they got their stadium when brand new for nowt due to admin. I was hoping they wouldn't win the Premier League that time they did. Just shows that cheats do prosper.
     
    DazFrumTarn, May 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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    Breaking the rules is never good. It just shows how broken football is, despite all this they’ve been easily relegated. Clubs only chance of surviving in the Prem is to break financial rules and even then it hasn’t worked. Game has gone at that level, the 17 established teams were sat in the seats when the music stopped and they’ll never vote to change it.
     
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    Love football hate premier league
     
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    And me, our achievement that season (bottom of League 1 in December and promoted via the playoffs) was easily the most impressive but of course we were completely ignored due to them winning the Prem - a massively over-hyped competition if ever there was one. Our season was really and truly against-all-the-odds, whilst theirs was merely unlikely.
     
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    Love Barnsley, hate football.
     
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    As punishment. They should be Dropped to league 2. (A la Swindon )
    But no. Premier league payments will
    Cover the debt. And they go again with parachute payments.
    Like Everton a slap on the wrist.
    "Now then chaps let's not let it happen again or its a slap on the bum, "
     
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    What a complete surprise. Who would have thought it from such upstanding citizens.
     
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    I see little point in arguing that one club is worse than another. They are all out to stretch the rules to breaking point and to spend whatever money they can lay their hands on. It has spread to the Championship, and - this season - to League One in the form of Birmingham. Money has utterly corrupted the game and the genie can not be gotten back in the bottle. 1996-97 can never be repeated unless we find a billionaire who is prepared to throw money at us. The present owners - rightly or wrongly - seem unwilling to join this circus, which makes me wonder what (from their point of view) is the point of it all?
     
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    And yet we almost repeated it a few years ago under Val. And I don’t think Luton were bankrolled by a billionaire.

    I do agree that money has ruined the game though, but regarding the owners’ unwillingness to join this circus, I’m firmly in the ‘rightly’ camp, cos I’d still like a football team to support in 5 years time, which wouldn’t be a given if our board began vastly overspending.
     
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    I think I'd be in the middle. Even the 'stability in the Championship' promised by Conway looks a long way off as things stand.
     
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    Shame about Spurs bottling it.
     
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    I'd love Barnsley to play some football.
     
    Stephen Dawson, May 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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    They might like it ;).
     
    Stephen Dawson, May 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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