The Football League 2013/14 season

[Aidan11]

This "Fit and Proper Person" criteria has always been a bit loose.

Some of the owners of English football clubs made Allen Stanford seem like an angel.

[Alviro Patterson]

and the situation at Leeds only gets better

Their sponsors only issuing a winding up order over a £1.7 Mjllion loan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26038937

[yuppie]

and the situation at Leeds only gets better

Their sponsors only issuing a winding up order over a £1.7 Mjllion loan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26038937

Dont these guys have a vested interest in one of the bidding groups?

[Alviro Patterson]

and the situation at Leeds only gets better

Their sponsors only issuing a winding up order over a £1.7 Mjllion loan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26038937

Dont these guys have a vested interest in one of the bidding groups?

Looks like they did with Flowers being an upstairs bloke of Enterprise, who sponsor Leeds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26056333

Either Flowers has issued a winding up order to get their loan back, or as another way of obtaining the club should the administrators get called in.

[Gingerfinch]

Derby all over QPR, and Barton is getting rattled. Not bad entertainment.

[st_brendy]

Poor Harry. Has the squad with quite possibly the highest wage bill the Championship has ever seen (Newcastle about five or six years ago might have had higher), and he's struggling to even get them automatic promotion (let alone the title). They're also arguably the most talented since that Newcastle team.

It's not even like he can blame the old regime this time. Dunne, Austin, BAE, Henry, O'Neil, Phillips, Kranjcar, Benayoun, now Hughes, Doyle and Maiga too; these are all players - and ex-PL players at that, Austin aside - that Harry has signed.

[Gingerfinch]

They didn't play as a team last night, certainly first half. And as for barton. The bloke is a waste of space. I know he runs around a lot, but mostly like a headless chicken, and a stronger ref would have booked him early on.

[st_brendy]

To add to my point about their being a lot of ex-PL players in that QPR squad, I've just seen a stat from Opta saying that the team who played against Derby had more PL appearances between them than 18 of the current PL teams who played at the weekend.

(Not sure who the two with more PL appearances between them were. Liverpool and Man Utd maybe? Everton possibly? For once, Fulham didn't play most of their old guard).

[yuppie]

Fox looking a good signing. Finally a attacking left back.

[st_brendy]

Fox looking a good signing. Finally a attacking left back.

Well as I've said, an untrained chimp would make a better LB than Harding.

Fox got at least one assist, I assume.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Poor Harry. Has the squad with quite possibly the highest wage bill the Championship has ever seen (Newcastle about five or six years ago might have had higher), and he's struggling to even get them automatic promotion (let alone the title). They're also arguably the most talented since that Newcastle team.

It's not even like he can blame the old regime this time. Dunne, Austin, BAE, Henry, O'Neil, Phillips, Kranjcar, Benayoun, now Hughes, Doyle and Maiga too; these are all players - and ex-PL players at that, Austin aside - that Harry has signed.

You Southampton supporters never miss an opportunity to Harry bash. You need to let his calamitous time with you go.

[sussexpob]

Poor Harry. Has the squad with quite possibly the highest wage bill the Championship has ever seen (Newcastle about five or six years ago might have had higher), and he's struggling to even get them automatic promotion (let alone the title). They're also arguably the most talented since that Newcastle team.

It's not even like he can blame the old regime this time. Dunne, Austin, BAE, Henry, O'Neil, Phillips, Kranjcar, Benayoun, now Hughes, Doyle and Maiga too; these are all players - and ex-PL players at that, Austin aside - that Harry has signed.

You Southampton supporters never miss an opportunity to Harry bash. You need to let his calamitous time with you go.

They are also players all way past their best. Comes a time when you have to ask why he signs all these players, he must have a HUGE squad.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Poor Harry. Has the squad with quite possibly the highest wage bill the Championship has ever seen (Newcastle about five or six years ago might have had higher), and he's struggling to even get them automatic promotion (let alone the title). They're also arguably the most talented since that Newcastle team.

It's not even like he can blame the old regime this time. Dunne, Austin, BAE, Henry, O'Neil, Phillips, Kranjcar, Benayoun, now Hughes, Doyle and Maiga too; these are all players - and ex-PL players at that, Austin aside - that Harry has signed.

You Southampton supporters never miss an opportunity to Harry bash. You need to let his calamitous time with you go.

They are also players all way past their best. Comes a time when you have to ask why he signs all these players, he must have a HUGE squad.

I think most of them have come on frees but I imagine the wage bill is enormous. Needless to say if he doesn't get them up this season he will be out the door.

[yuppie]

Fox looking a good signing. Finally a attacking left back.

Well as I've said, an untrained chimp would make a better LB than Harding.

Fox got at least one assist, I assume.

That he did, and was commiting defenders, which was good.

[Alviro Patterson]

Carl McHugh you little beauty

The winless streak of 13 games (albeit 5 of them losses) has finally ended.

Parkinson's Bradford Army and all that jazz.