TeaCider24 12,401 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Feel sorry for the fans, but that's the correct decision. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
ballyclover 210 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Shows what i know....zero Link to post Share on other sites
wilsoncgp 9,230 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 9 minutes ago, TeaCider24 said: Feel sorry for the fans, but that's the correct decision. I'd go so far as to say the appeal they've made is entirely frivolous. It's dreadful what the club is going through right now and totally unfair from a sporting stand-point... but they've surely picked the wrong way to fight this! 2 Link to post Share on other sites
AnglianRed 6,229 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Now up on the BBC - so I guess its officially official now... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53649840 Horrible for the club and the fans, but examples have to be made when owners fail to run their clubs properly...to serve as a warning to others, if nothing else. They were always clutching at straws, trying to use the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse. Being forced into administration is generally the result of long-term mismanagement and given most other clubs weathered the storm, their appeal was always likely to be rejected. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 24 minutes ago, AnglianRed said: Now up on the BBC - so I guess its officially official now... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53649840 Horrible for the club and the fans, but examples have to be made when owners fail to run their clubs properly...to serve as a warning to others, if nothing else. They were always clutching at straws, trying to use the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse. Being forced into administration is generally the result of long-term mismanagement and given most other clubs weathered the storm, their appeal was always likely to be rejected. Examples have to be made of what? Those owners aren't the owners any more. The punishment means absolutely nothing to them. It's like you being fined for me speeding. Long term mismanagement had nothing to do with this particular case. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 57 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said: I'd go so far as to say the appeal they've made is entirely frivolous. It's dreadful what the club is going through right now and totally unfair from a sporting stand-point... but they've surely picked the wrong way to fight this! What way should they have fought it? Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 They should have fought it as being deliberately used as a vehicle for corruption as it is "rumoured" that a huge bet was made that Wigan would be relegated and if that was the case then the EFL were grossly incompetent and complicit in the demise of the Club. The Covid-19 argument was always doomed to fail as the other 90 Clubs faced exactly the same challenge and was never the reason why the club entered administration. Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 5 minutes ago, Redcar Rioja said: They should have fought it as being deliberately used as a vehicle for corruption as it is "rumoured" that a huge bet was made that Wigan would be relegated and if that was the case then the EFL were grossly incompetent and complicit in the demise of the Club. The Covid-19 argument was always doomed to fail as the other 90 Clubs faced exactly the same challenge and was never the reason why the club entered administration. They couldn't fight it that way. You can't fight a case like this with a rumour. They had to take a shot on what was most likely to give them a chance and that was the effects of the virus. Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 1 minute ago, Changing Times said: They couldn't fight it that way. You can't fight a case like this with a rumour. They had to take a shot on what was most likely to give them a chance and that was the effects of the virus. I used the word "rumoured" for legal reasons for the sake of this site. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Changing Times 12,218 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 4 minutes ago, Redcar Rioja said: I used the word "rumoured" for legal reasons for the sake of this site. The problem is that they are only rumoured. Unless the administrators actually had proof then they couldn't use it as the reason for the appeal. I agree that the appeal was doomed to fail, I can remember several people talking about it a couple of weeks back, I just don't believe they would have had much of an alternative. Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 I hope Wigan don't let this go as that is exactly what the EFL would want, the entire thing stinks to high hell and back. Along with the Charlton/Wednesday/Derby/Birmingham farce the EFL need to be hauled over the coals. As an organisation they are totally unfit for purpose but Wigan were unlikely to win an appeal based upon how the judge and jury are poor at their job. https://loftforwords.fansnetwork.co.uk/news/52581/in-form-wigan-left-high-and-dry-by-owners-and-efl--interview Link to post Share on other sites
Redcar Rioja 5,872 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 The irony is that in theory the EFL would fail their own Fit and Proper persons test but unfortunately they are so incompetent and unfit for their own purpose they would probably pass it. Link to post Share on other sites
White Band 831 Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Fulham would be out of sight if it wasn't for Brentford's goal keeper Link to post Share on other sites
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