Football League Playoffs

[Sacko]

Yep on foxsports tonight (as the Millwall loss was last night).

It'll be great to see the Blades fans in the same state that Millwall were last night - and as Burnley also play in claret and blue like Sc**thorpe it could well be their year!

Go Burnley

f**k off Millwall / Blades!

 

[goingtoadisco]

gooo sc**thorpe ! 1 step away from the premier league.

 

[Sacko]

Hold on to your hats the Blades are staying DOWN!

 

[Sacko]

YES!
1-0 Burnley!
13th minute

 

[Arabmariner]

Burnley should've tied this game up by now.Missed 2 great chances early in the 2nd half.

Might come back to haunt them later.

 

[Sacko]

A well deserved win for Burnley, had a couple of chances to wrap it up in the 2nd half.
Sheff Utd resorted to cheating in the 2nd half and their young sub got sent off for twice deliberately handling the ball.

Sheff Utd had a big shout for a penalty in the 1st half, it wasn't given perhaps they will sue! 

 

[Arabmariner]

Sheff Utd had a big shout for a penalty in the 1st half, it wasn't given perhaps they will sue! 

LOL

You don't hold a grudge for long do you ? 

 

[The Smart one]

Eight clubs from the northwest of England now in the premier league season 2009 /10, we will take over soon.

 

[Sacko]

Sheff Utd had a big shout for a penalty in the 1st half, it wasn't given perhaps they will sue! 

LOL

You don't hold a grudge for long do you ? 

Only 4ever!

 

[Sacko]

Sheffield United To Launch New Legal Action
The Games Gone Crazy

Following their failure to secure promotion to the Premiership via the backdoor of the play offs, Sheffield United are investigating the possibility of new legal actions to compensate for their extended stay in the Championship. The 20m already agreed with West Ham was designed to compensate for the initial demotion and a further season's stay outside of the Premiership; however, with today's failure to secure a return to the land of milk and honey, the Sheffield United board are now pursuing new legal avenues.

A source close to the club said: "West Ham are ultimately responsible for today's defeat. We were stripped of a number of our key players following relegation who would undoubtedly have secured victory for us today. The settlement agreed out of court may be regarded as binding as far as West Ham are concerned but we believe otherwise."

But West Ham are not the only club sweating on a legal ruling. The source continued: "We are seeking to overturn the decision to promote Burnley. It seems self evident that the team promoted should be the one that ends up with the most points over a season. We finished above Burnley and the playoffs are an illogical contrivance. We will be using the precedent of the Premiership to prove our case. Chelsea are not in a play off with Villa for a place in the Champions League are they? Chelsea have qualified based on their league position. What holds for the Premiership should apply to the teams seeking promotion to the Premiership. We are confident of proving this point in a court of law."

The scorer of the winning goal, Wade Elliot, is also in the frame. The source continued: "We are investigating a third party agreement in relation to Mr Elliot. If our information is correct, it appears that Mr Elliot is either married or committed to a member of the female sex. We have a sworn affidavit which states that, in the event of his partner giving birth on the day of a game, Mr Elliot would be deselected from the team. This is clearly a Third Party Agreement in breach of FA rules."

Referee Mike Dean also faces a compensation claim. Controversy centres on the decision to send off Jamie Ward for a "deliberate hand ball" and the failure to award two penalties to Sheffield United. The spokesman said: "Ward was seeking a hypothetical advantage when handling the ball. To exact punishment for a hypothetical is absurd. The failure to award the penalties is clearly a dereliction of duty on the part of Dean. He is a cheating bastard, end of. We will make him pay!"

The final plank in the legal action centres on Burnley's club colours. The spokesman finished by saying: "It has not escaped our attention that Burnley wear claret and blue. Our lawyers have investigated the precedent of the Tollpuddle Martyrs and it is self evident that there is an illegal secret association here. Tevez may not have played for Burnley today but he was there in spirit. We are confident that, not only will we be compensated and promoted to the Premiership, but West Ham will be transported to Australia. Their captain, Lucas Neill, will help them settle somewhere in the Outback."

 

[Sacko]

No tears for another season without Sheffield United, but who will they blame this time?
By Hatchet Man
Last updated at 10:13 AM on 26th May 2009
Daily Mail

Sheffield United are facing their third successive season in the Championship after losing to Burnley in the play-off final. Good. After two years of parachute money and two failed promotion bids, it is where they belong and even the best lawyers in the country would struggle to argue otherwise. This is the club who acted like the only victims when they went down because West Ham broke the rules over Carlos Tevez. It was utter rubbish of course. The game was hard done-by, the Premier League were shamefully soft and everybody lost. Even if West Ham had been relegated because of their misdemeanours, Sheffield United deserved to go with them because they werent good enough. They have stayed down for the same reason and if they still cant get out of the Championship next season with the advantage they have from the Tevez money they won through the courts, they have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[Kareem]

i am disappointed about sheff utd not getting promoted
Why?
For a purely selfish pro-mariners point of view

I would think rejects from a lower EPL club >>> rejects from a CCC side (assuming they strengthened once getting into EPL)
I'd rather get a player who cant cut in EPL (i have no problems with that) then one who cant cut in CCC (who here wouldnt?)

until they can manage to get promoted the best we will get is injury stricken players eg. Travis

 

[dibo]

posting fictional bullshit from WHU sites doesn't help you prove a point sacko. we get that you don't like SU. you don't need to post little fairy tales here. move on.

 

[Sacko]

posting fictional bullshit from WHU sites doesn't help you prove a point sacko. we get that you don't like SU. you don't need to post little fairy tales here. move on.

Dibo the Daily Mail is not a WHU site it a "up market" UK tabloid!
As for moving on, that's what should have happened after the EPL fined West Ham GBP5m, it's those Sheff Utd c**ts who wouldn't let in lie by carrying on suing until they found somebody that sided with them! 

 

[dibo]

your club cheated and got fined and sued, you got off light.

 

[FFC Mariner]

I have no love for Sheff Utd either but in any other universe, Wham would have been relegated in their place.

You got a result, be happy

 

[marinermick]

Wham would have been relegated

does that make bear george michael and sacko andrew ridgely?

 

[FFC Mariner]

Sacko has more talent than Andrew Ridgely

 

[Sacko]

Well Mick & Bear have heard me on sing star!

 

[marinermick]

Well Mick & Bear have heard me on sing star!

Too true - you are a gun.

Not a scratch on my "heart of glass" though