Matthew Le God

Done.

Thats gotta be worth a retweet of my tweet.

I'm confused by option one in the vote... 1. Free tickets to local schools for League One games at Fratton Park in 2012/13. These would be distributed by our Football League award-winning charity arm, the Pompey Sports & Education Foundation. It means youngsters who may rarely get the chance to come to watch Pompey can do so for free. Seats will be in the Milton End and would be available from our home game against Oldham on September 1. So the club give out £30,000 worth of free tickets to kids to fill up some empty seats at Fratton Park, where does the £30,000 actually go? Back into the club's coffers? Surely that can't be right when the organisers said it can't be used to pay off debt. Also £30,000 equates to 3,000 kids tickets for that Oldham game, so watch out for them claiming how great their support is on 1st September.

An interesting read about Sports Interactive's spilt from Eidos/Championship Manager to move to SEGA and start Football Manager in 2004, something not discussed before for legal reasons... http://www.edge-online.com/news/miles-jacobson-comments-eidos-split Also the first bit of news about FM13... "Sports Interactive will unveil the latest iteration of Football Manager in the autumn, which Jacobson says will feature “less conservative” design than in the past." So Dune won't like it then!

What do you mean? That makes no sense.

How will they "validate" the votes on facebook? Yes, some Saints fans have clues in their profile pictures, but not all.

and the goalkeeper kits (home and away).

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June 2013 has been given as a date, although the second phase hasn't been given planning permission yet. You can see the extent of the changes in detail on the New Forest website... Phase One... http://web3.newforest.gov.uk/planningonline/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeDocs&TheSystemkey=178604 Phase Two... http://web3.newforest.gov.uk/planningonline/acolnetcgi.gov?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeDocs&TheSystemkey=178603

Half were in today for tests and half tomorrow. Youth team and development squad came back a week or so ago and many already have tests done. Training for the 1st team properly starts next week and they go to Champney's for a week like they did last year, before the Liebherr tournament on the 14th.

Simply being on the bench a few times does not make you the "Spurs no.2" keeper as you claimed... The lack of appearances on the bench indicates other keepers were ahead of him for the rest of the season. Robinson, Cerny and Alnwick were all ahead of him in the pecking order. Forecast was 4th choice, not 2nd.

Find me that season on this... http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/archive.htm Simply being on the bench a few times does not make you the "Spurs no.2" keeper.

They won't be allowed to register them.

No he wasn't.

And if they are downgraded they won't be allowed to do this. Chelsea were one of the main players forcing through EPPP. I'm sure they are more than happy with it and how it fits with their future strategy as they played a key role in writing it. Same applies to Arsenal.

If a club is downgraded what "actions" will it repeat in the future? There is a difference between classification and rules/rule enforcement.

"Enforce"? Enforce what? It isn't a "rule", clubs do not have to blood youngsters. However if they don't then they will be downgraded in an independent auditing procedure. You also haven't answered this... If a club isn't blooding youngsters why would it be so desperate to hold onto category 1 status? It may aswell save time, money and effort and downgrade.

It isn't a "rule", it is categorising a youth system based on strict criteria by an independent auditing body separate from the FA. The two situations are not at all comparable.

Every 2 to 3 years iirc

Of course they aren't examples. They have nothing to do with the auditing procedure of an academy for what tier of a youth system it goes into. If clubs choose not to blood youngsters when a new audit is carried out by the independent company separate from the FA, they will be downgraded. Simple. As I pointed out, Saint Clark makes a good point above, if a club isn't blooding youngsters why would it be so desperate to hold onto category 1 status? It may aswell save money and downgrade.

This is a key point. Why bother hanging on to category one status if you aren't using the benefits that cat 1 provides to your advantage?

I've already answered that, they aren't "making a manager pick youth players". It is entirely his choice (although club policy may now influence him), should the club not give games to youth products the category one status will be downgraded. Have they? How, when and is it comparable to EPPP?

I think that still counts as a compliment.

Schniederlin is our much younger, less good version of Pirlo...