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But the Hong Kong businessman may be left with little choice but to take control once again, with the administrators UHY Hacker Young warning in the official Creditors Voluntary Agreement, published on Friday, that without his support "the club could cease trading". Translation: "I get most of the parachute money, keep control of the club and future TV money, and you accept 20p in the pound, or I pull the plug and you lot get diddly squat." CHEATING BASTARDS

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=22743 Or maybe it's Capello's cunning plan: tell Fat Frank to miss deliberately in a friendly, and tell the press we're not practising, in order to lull the WC opposition into thinking England are still crap at penalties? Says he clutching at straws.

I'm sure that Tijuana Tim will willingly start half a dozen new threads, if you ask him nicely. :cool:

Go on then, lock the thread. I dare you.

The thought crossed my mind too. It seems very feasible, provided the owner is dishonest enough. So a club like P***** wouldn't hesitate, whereas an honest owner (ML?) is less likely to try it. The moral is, in football ... ... CHEATS PROSPER

That brings up a good point: if they accept the 20% offer, not only do HMRC get ripped off directly from the 80% loss on the money owed to them, but also they'll lose even more from the reduction of taxes paid by the other ripped-off creditors! Just say no to the CVA, HMRC! CHEATING BASTARDS

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=22743

I'm sure they will say that. Whether the FL listens to them is a different matter. CHEATING BASTARDS

At a guess, liquidation and starting a new club before the season starts makes it easier for the FL to deny the new club its golden share. So it's safer to do it half way through the season.

So you're saying HMRC have a cunning plan to liquidate PFC, and then bankrupt UHY Hacker Young & AA? I couldn't raise my hopes up that high. But as cunning plans go, that's the best I've ever heard!

Say it's not so! That means I have to give them a warm welcome. I'd better get my Saints shirt out, and start preparing some rotten eggs and tomatoes. CHEATING BASTARDS

Agreed. Thank God they haven't sacked him yet. He's the French version of this clown.

It seems so. Automatic -10 for going into administration, regardless of a CVA. Extra point deductions for those not coming out of administration with a CVA.

:smt038

Since 1990 the following have needed penalties at some stage to win the World Cup: 1990 West Germany 1994 Brazil 1998 France 2006 Italy The only exception was Brazil in 2002 who didn't need penalties at any stage. So the odds are, no matter how good a team is, they will probably need to win at least one penalty shootout to win the WC. So that's England f**ked then. :mad:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/worldcup2010/article-1279183/WORLD-CUP-2010-Gary-Lineker-insists-Englands-players-start-practicing-penalties-ahead-finals.html I don't necessarily think we've prepared well enough in the past but I think Capello might be different,' said former England captain Lineker. 'You have to practice, absolutely you do. 'This argument that it's different when it really matters, well, of course it's different, but if you've hit hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of penalties, at least you've got an idea of what to do rather than go: "Oh, I've never hit a penalty before, this will be interesting". 'Really intelligent football people come up with this argument that it's different when the pressure's on. Well, yeah, but... 'It's like saying a golfer never practices a six-foot putt. Yes, it's different when it's for the Open Championship but it doesn't half help if you've actually hit a few. I just don't get the argument. There is no argument. It just doesn't make sense. 'You have to practice even more so when you're out at a World Cup because you know the chances are you'll have to take a penalty. You might be called upon, even if you're one of those who wouldn't normally take a penalty in any circumstances. 'If it's nine-all, you'll have to take one. You've got to hit loads, not just say let's all have one. I used to hit about 30 penalties every day.'

That reminds me of a manager in Scotland a long time ago (can't remember who), who said of one of his strikers (words to the effect): "He's bloody useless. He does practically nothing. All he does is score goals."

Half nice. My score: Mexico 10 England 3

Peter Crouch: 22 goals in 38.5 England matches. If he's not on the plane, and Heskey (7 goals in 57) is, then Capello has completely lost the plot.

It's mine the day before, so hopefully a dream present for both of us.

A lottery that the Germans (who practise a lot) always win, and England (who don't practise as much) almost always loses. Yep, nothing to do with practise. Damn those lucky Germans!