In the current climate of reckless double footed challenges being chucked around like cheap crimbo cards that don’t stand up on their own, the FA’s argument that to review an incident that had already been dealt with by the referee would undermine his or her’s authority is as wobbly as Tesco Value Christmas card.
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Following on from a previous post FA must approve “Burton”, it is reported in the Daily Express today that the plan is under threat because one of the old codgers on the FA board, David Sheepshanks has said that he objected to the site in Staffordshire.
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The Advertising Standards Authority has told Setanta Sports that it can’t advertise Non-League fixtures in the way they have been and then not actually broadcast them.
Earlier in the season, I was happy to see Setanta advertising coverage of Non-League matches. They’d taken out adverts in the Non-League Paper and I think some reports appeared [...]

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25 year old Brazilian super star, Ricardo Kaka picked up FIFA’s player of the year award in Zurich earlier this week.
Beating off the challenge of footballs new young upstarts, Lionel Messi (2nd) and Christiano Ronaldo (3rd), Kaka added the award to his European Player of the year trophy from earlier this month.
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It should come as no surprise that the same old codgers on the FA, who took just a couple of weeks to name Fabio Capello as successor to Steve McClaren as England coach, have been deliberating on the long term future of an English football academy for ten years!
Originally outlined in the, then FA Technical [...]

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