Liverpool in Administration

[River Don]

So the Premier league have come out and said if Liverpool FC go into administration they won't be deducted 9 points because the club aren't insolvent. No, it's the holding company that's insolvent.

Isn't this exactly the same trick, Southampton, Leeds and numerous other clubs tried to pull?

It looks like the big clubs play by different rules, as if we didn't know it already.

It stinks. :angry:

[hoolahoop]

River Don wrote:

So the Premier league have come out and said if Liverpool FC go into administration they won't be deducted 9 points because the club aren't insolvent. No, it's the holding company that's insolvent.

Isn't this exactly the same trick, Southampton, Leeds and numerous other clubs tried to pull?

It looks like the big clubs play by different rules, as if we didn't know it already.

It stinks. :angry:

They do indeed RD and have for many a year, time to cut them loose perhaps ?

[timdrfc]

Agree , & while your on about administration why haven't Palace [ just out of administration ] & Portsmouth still in administration been deducted points this year?

Because don't you have to be out of administration by a certain date to avoid deduction of points?  isn't that why Leeds were deducted the minus 15 / points a couple of years ago.

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fcuk football i say

[Glyn_Wigley]

timdrfc wrote:

isn't that why Leeds were deducted the minus 15 / points a couple of years ago.

No. They were deducted 15 points for not having an agreed CVA.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

If happened then I would hope Southampton and perhaps other clubs would mount a legal challenge to the injustice of it all.

Is there any wonder people are falling out of love with football !!

[CusworthRovers]

Having said all that, isn't it a crying shame, when you see one of the giants of our game and world wide football names, the long time flag bearer of the English game in Europe, going through this shit.

Arrrh me, the great romantic fool.

[RobTheRover]

You sound like that knob of a presenter on Talksport this afternoon, basically saying Liverpool have brought so much to the English footballing table that its a crime the FA arent doing something to help them.

Is that like the FA bent over backwards to help us when Richardson and Weaver were raping our club?

Why should Liverpool be treated any differently?

[CusworthRovers]

Nobody is saying they should be bailed out (ie me), it's just a shame that a club like that is suffering this way. I feel the same for any club to be honest, but you always think naaaah not Liverpool or insert any self proclaimed massive club, it will never happen. A serious wake up call for our game. Wrong it may be, but it might take the Liverpools, and no doubt soon to be Chelsea, Man City, Man Utd for the FA or the Government or somebody to have a serious look at our game

[stuey]

CusworthRovers wrote:

Having said all that, isn't it a crying shame, when you see one of the giants of our game and world wide football names, the long time flag bearer of the English game in Europe, going through this shit.

Arrrh me, the great romantic fool.

In a word NO, it's not a shame. This is the same Liverpool that got English teams kicked out of Europe! And denied teams like Wimbledon a one and only chance to play on the continent. Fcuk Liverpool!

[CusworthRovers]

Oh well. I'm alone on this one then. Just a romantic fool

[Nudga]

I personally think it would do the English game a lot of good if a club like Liverpool got docked enough points to see them relegated.
It might just be the kick up the back side the PL need to use this 'Fit and Proper Persons Test' for real, as in, only letting people buy a football club if they have the reddies in their back burner and not use borrowed monies to purchase a club.
If ya haven't got the dough, then tough titties, ya can't buy a football club.
Sadly, I doubt this will ever happen as the PL are not bothered where the money comes from as long as the money comes in.

[Sandy Lane]

Sort of related, but I felt bad for the fans during this tenure.  I'm not sure they will be so happy if another American buys them, but I've read that the Boston Red Sox owner is well thought of and he has helped raise their profile and popularity. Apparently they are doing well if he can afford to buy Liverpool and take care of their debt as well, so I hope the fans give him a chance...

[BillyStubbsTears]

RobTheRover wrote:

You sound like that knob of a presenter on Talksport this afternoon, basically saying Liverpool have brought so much to the English footballing table that its a crime the FA arent doing something to help them.

Is that like the FA bent over backwards to help us when Richardson and Weaver were raping our club?

Why should Liverpool be treated any differently?

Post of the Year Rob.

Topiary versions of that quote should be sheared into every bush on every roundabout on every arterial road into Donny. (Alright, mebbe we could remove the bit about the knob on Talksport in the interests of brevity, but the rest can stay.)

[Thinwhiteduke]

stuey wrote:

In a word NO, it's not a shame. This is the same Liverpool that got English teams kicked out of Europe! And denied teams like Wimbledon a one and only chance to play on the continent. Fcuk Liverpool!

Liverpool FC did not get any English Teams kicked out of Europe for years.

A handful of knobhead thugs masquerading as Liverpool FC supporters managed that, with no small help from rival 'fans'.

Christ....next you'll be blaming Liverpool FC, (the Club), for Hillsborough.

[bedale rover]

Thinwhiteduke wrote:

stuey wrote:

In a word NO, it's not a shame. This is the same Liverpool that got English teams kicked out of Europe! And denied teams like Wimbledon a one and only chance to play on the continent. Fcuk Liverpool!

Liverpool FC did not get any English Teams kicked out of Europe for years.

A handful of knobhead thugs masquerading as Liverpool FC supporters managed that, with no small help from rival 'fans'.

Christ....next you'll be blaming Liverpool FC, (the Club), for Hillsborough.

i hate liverpool

in fact i hate any english football club except doncaster rovers

the sooner the money-grabbing parasitic premier league bas**rds are gouged from the face of the earth the better

[jucyberry]

CusworthRovers wrote:

Oh well. I'm alone on this one then. Just a romantic fool

I don't think it is a case of being romantic at all, of all the clubs that were big when we were kids Liverpool was at the time perhaps one the biggest, or seemed to be, of the lot.

To see it or any club in this position is sad..Wether they are in the premiership, or in the lowest league in Britain there will be decent honest supporters just like us that will be gutted. It isn't nice at all.

[Glyn_Wigley]

DonnyBazR0ver wrote:

If happened then I would hope Southampton and perhaps other clubs would mount a legal challenge to the injustice of it all.

Against who? Southampton were dealt with by the Football League, Liverpool would be by the Premier League. Different ruling bodies who can make their own rulings.

[stuey]

Thinwhiteduke wrote:

stuey wrote:

In a word NO, it's not a shame. This is the same Liverpool that got English teams kicked out of Europe! And denied teams like Wimbledon a one and only chance to play on the continent. Fcuk Liverpool!

Liverpool FC did not get any English Teams kicked out of Europe for years.

A handful of knobhead thugs masquerading as Liverpool FC supporters managed that, with no small help from rival 'fans'.

Christ....next you'll be blaming Liverpool FC, (the Club), for Hillsborough.

'Masquerading' as Liverpool fans? Do you really think that NO Liverpool fans were involved in what happened at Hysel? And, seeing as brought the matter up, do you think that Liverpool fans were 100% blameless at Hillsborough?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

That's a whole can of worms although I tend to agree with you. Many hundreds of Liverpool fans went without tickets.

Keeping the debate at a Footballing level, it is a cyclical game and for teams to prosper others have to fail. No team are exempt. Just as it happened to Leeds, Sheff Wed etc, there's a fair chance it can happen to Liverpool.

Other better managed clubs, like ourselves, can prosper. At the beginning of last season who could have predicted Blackpool have more chance of qualifying for Europe than Liverpool?

Support for the game is waining and if the Premier League get their way and ring fence 'membership', then that will be the death nail.

We have just had a golden decade and what have we done with it. Pissed it down the toilet and we're still no nearer winning a world cup !

[bedale rover]

DonnyBazR0ver wrote:

That's a whole can of worms although I tend to agree with you. Many hundreds of Liverpool fans went without tickets.

Keeping the debate at a Footballing level, it is a cyclical game and for teams to prosper others have to fail. No team are exempt. Just as it happened to Leeds, Sheff Wed etc, there's a fair chance it can happen to Liverpool.

Other better managed clubs, like ourselves, can prosper. At the beginning of last season who could have predicted Blackpool have more chance of qualifying for Europe than Liverpool?

Support for the game is waining and if the Premier League get their way and ring fence 'membership', then that will be the death nail.

We have just had a golden decade and what have we done with it. Pissed it down the toilet and we're still no nearer winning a world cup !

err shouldnt that be knell

or were you pinning your hopes on it?

[RobTheRover]

I believe he was taking a different tack.

[ravenrover]

Or just trying to hammer home his point

[NigelJ]

Come on. Can't we just knock this on the head?

[Wellington Vaults]

RobTheRover wrote:

You sound like that knob of a presenter on Talksport this afternoon, basically saying Liverpool have brought so much to the English footballing table that its a crime the FA arent doing something to help them.

Is that like the FA bent over backwards to help us when Richardson and Weaver were raping our club?

Why should Liverpool be treated any differently?

A certain LUFC442 has started posting on our of our sites adopting the Busty Young German Wenches avatar.  Go on Rob, tell me you have at last seen the (white) light!!

[RobTheRover]

Wash your dirty mouth out with a block of carbolic, Wellygogs.  

My lawyers shall be informed of this impersonator.  She's mine, all mine, I tells thee!