Quote from: Peter on 06 April, 2021, 07:02:00 pmHa, yes, Duncan, I know what full-time means "officially" but you'd be hard-pushed to find a pro. putting in a 40-hour week, I think. Anyway, I'm just teasing.I think Sunderland have had a significant fall from grace, which is always good to see: they were the last of the original members of the top division to be relegated.Can you clarify what you mean by this? Sunderland were not one of the original members of the football league
Ha, yes, Duncan, I know what full-time means "officially" but you'd be hard-pushed to find a pro. putting in a 40-hour week, I think. Anyway, I'm just teasing.I think Sunderland have had a significant fall from grace, which is always good to see: they were the last of the original members of the top division to be relegated.
Quote from: Hair_Today_Gone_Tomorrow on 07 April, 2021, 09:47:45 amQuote from: Peter on 06 April, 2021, 07:02:00 pmHa, yes, Duncan, I know what full-time means "officially" but you'd be hard-pushed to find a pro. putting in a 40-hour week, I think. Anyway, I'm just teasing.I think Sunderland have had a significant fall from grace, which is always good to see: they were the last of the original members of the top division to be relegated.Can you clarify what you mean by this? Sunderland were not one of the original members of the football leagueClarification is simple: I was wrong - but not by much! They joined the league in it's 3rd year, I think, won it loads of times early on (they are still one of the most successful teams so far in the top division, though not for about 100 years!). I think what I may be remembering is that when they were relegated for the first time in 1958, they had been in the top division longer than anyone else (about 70 years) but I may be wrong about that, too! It's fascinating to realise that Accrington were founder members and finished halfway up the table. I can remember their decades in the wilderness.
....Fair enough - I didn't research all of the clubs in National League N (or S), I was just going from memory. Apologies for missing out your team!
HTGT - OK, but it gets a little tedious if one has to say "a team from Accrington" and so on, every time, especially for a topic that's not important anyway. By the way, were you old enough to be at Feethams when a team from Durham upset a team from west London in a 4th round FA cup replay?
You really know how to hurt, don't you? Brentford play in Sunderland shirts!
Mmmmm. Bolton are usually heavily in debt, which is why they are in that division, really. Either way, it helps Grimsby or Southend, I suppose. If it's Bolton, it might also affect the promotions, too.
This thread may need to be renamed the local lower leagues club threadThere was an article in one of the local newspapers I think about how little Colchester have spent the last year and have risked relegation by being financially stable where as lots of clubs are at no risk of relegation but at more financial risk Southend have got Phil Brown back who i seem to recall managed Colchester back in the day.
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Quote from: The Family Cyclist on 09 April, 2021, 11:55:33 amThis thread may need to be renamed the local lower leagues club threadThere was an article in one of the local newspapers I think about how little Colchester have spent the last year and have risked relegation by being financially stable where as lots of clubs are at no risk of relegation but at more financial risk Southend have got Phil Brown back who i seem to recall managed Colchester back in the day.Oi! You start your own thread!
As mentioned above, having been shafted financially by HM Govt, it seems unlikely that the season will be completed and if that eventuality comes to be, then there will be no promotion or relegation.