It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Roll on Feb.10th.

Saw Bradford's goals and was mighty impressed !.....the fourth was just like I love soccer to be played and that's the way the national squad should play !....instead of down the side and stupid crosses into the box with a packed penalty area like we see most of the time....

In case you missed it :-)

FA Cup: Chelsea 2-4 Bradford highlights

Chelsea 2-4 Bradford: Jose Mourinho calls upset 'a disgrace'

Soccer? Are you a yank RF?

Great news from "Doomed" castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30989117

Oh good, another outfit that could well finish below Burnley now, thank you Ashley... thank you so very much -):

LOL !

Link copied from over the road - FA CUP GIANT KILLERS and RONALDO RED CARD (Man City vs Middlesbrough Chelsea FC vs Bradford City)

Pearce gone at Forrest, a day before the transfer deadline closes...What timing!

Actually there is a transfer embargo at Forrest.

Transfer deadline day ends at 11pm tonight... Danny not for sale unless he stays on loan till the end of the season alright -):

Redcap resigns at QPR:

"I need immediate surgery," said Redknapp. "If I can't give 100%, it's better for someone else to take over."

A likely story!

Cracking transfer window for Cardiff ..... we got

2 Everton rejects
Rotherham centre forward
Millwall reserve left back
Huddersfield reserve right back
Southampton reject midfielder ... but can't be worse than any of the clowns we got left
Eoin Doyle (Chesterfield ?) .... top scorer in all English divisions this season (hope he's 7 foot and likes hoofball )


Start of season we had two full teams capable of winning this league until the owner decided to ship all our talent out and employ a clueless manager.

Gutted.

Never mind Dil, at least the 2 Everton rejects will feel more at home now your back in blue. :0)

Well at least you did actually sign some which is more then we did, still just goes to show the strength of the existing squad I suppose -):

Those were the days http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30699020

Danny Ings for England? about time as well, he should have been included in the last World Cup squad in my view.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31252356

No conspiracy against Chels - how many Everton yellow cards given last night, and how many reds ?

How long did it take Barry to make the 5 yd walk to leave the field ?

How many Evertonians surrounded the ref?

How many blatant cheating fouls did they make?

And yet the media focuses on one of our players trying to separate that vermin - the media and the scouse go well together imo - all vermin

PS - we're top of the league

Jose Mourinho ducks Match of the Day question

Roberto Martinez: Chelsea players 'try to sway referees'

LOL! media and scouse - all vermin together eh Joe?

Ivanovic should have walked. Thug!

Many Evertonians myself included baffled by Martinez's loyalty to Barry in picking him every week, he's a liability. If Everton had attempted to play open attacking football against Chelsea they would have been slaughtered. Short memory Joe. The year Chelsea won the European Cup (fuck knows how) the game against Barcelona, Chelsea adopted the same defensive tactics against a superior team. I won't mention a certain player called John Terry that night eh! Mourinho's a whinging twat :0)

FA charge Everton and Chelsea but Ivanovic gets off scot-free
by Lyndon Lloyd | 12/02/2015 Comments (83) jump
The Football Association have announced that both Everton and Chelsea have been charged with failing to control their players in last night's match.
A statement on the governing body's website reads:

Both Chelsea and Everton have been charged by The FA for failing to ensure their players conducted themselves in an orderly fashion and/or refrained from provocative behaviour.
Players from both sides squared up to each other after Gareth Barry tripped Willian late in the 0-0 draw and Chelsea' Branislav Ivanovic was pictured with a forceful arm around the throat of James McCarthy as he held him back before pushing his head into the Irish international's face.

McCarthy was booked, along with Cesc Fabregas and Ramires, and Barry was shown a second yellow card for the infringement that sparked the incident.

Ivanovic escaped censure from referee Jonathan Moss and was involved in the lead-up to the Chelsea goal that came from the free kick once play resumed.

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Ralph Basnett
1 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:23:02 Total cop out. Punish the whole team and then Ivanovic won’t be singled out?
Brian Waring
2 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:25:08 I don’t understand how they can charge both teams, but in the same breath say that the player who kicked it all off, Ivanovic, will face no further punishment.
Nick Waters
3 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:24:11 FA now running scared of upsetting Mourinho. I hope the club contests it but I doubt it because it would be pointless as it’s not a question of which team offended most or of who started it.
As for no action against Ivanovic....just desperate stuff. Mac gets a yellow and Ivanovic not even that.

Brian Waring
4 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:31:30 The panel who look at the incidents say the Ivanovic ’butt’ would not have been worthy of a red card, what about when Ivanovic grabs McCarthy in a head lock, you can actually see McCarthy going red in the face.
Tony Waring
5 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:36:57 Bloody disgrace but what do you expect. Mourinho is untouchable.
Peter Gorman
6 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:43:03 Totally predictable stuff. Football is so ugly it is unreal.
Brian Waring
7 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:44:13 You could say all the crap Mourinho has come out with, conspiracy, agenda’s etc against Chelsea has worked a treat.
Steve Carse
8 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:50:33 Brian (7) it was certainly there in the ref’s subconscious in his booking of Besic for the first challenge of the game.
Mike Price
10 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:54:32 Mourinho’s played a blinder, that’s the first little dividend paid from his perfectly planned agenda.
Insult to injury to Everton, the best behaved bunch of honest nice boys in the league get charged with the dark arts masters.

It’s time this management, players and club grew up and started playing big boy rules. No one gives a flying one about poor, hard done to Everton.

Eric Holland
11 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:58:44 Total gobshites at the FA, shit scared of Mourinho. Duncan Ferguson went to prison for not much more.
Ian Burns
12 Posted 12/02/2015 at 17:57:40 Shithouse loudmouth scheming manager 3 points;
Well mannered, uncontroversial manager 0 points.

Which do you prefer?

Tony Draper
13 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:01:29 The FA Official website
Link
They chose the image, so what does that say about complete hypocrisy ?

Andy Cobham
14 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:11:19 It’s this kind of shite that is turning supporters off Football. Not only do we have to put up with the fact that we have inept referees who can’t seem to see what’s going on right in front of them, and often don’t seem to know the rules- after the event when it’s blatantly obvious who needs to be punished, they some how cock it up again.
I don’t want to believe that corruption is at the heart of this, but it really feels like that’s the case...and it makes me question whether I want to bother with footy anymore, especially when Everton seem to be on the end of more shitty decisions and injustices than just about anyone else.

Paul Chaloner
15 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:36:21 I agree with Andy 14. It’s hard not to believe there is corruption at work when the Sky4 consistently referee their own matches and get away with it. Moss one of those leaning most towards these clubs.
In an effort to avoid responsibility the FA charge both clubs. The more money in the game the more this will happen. It’s time we grew up and started being ’professional’ it’s what they seem to want.
Tom Evans
16 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:38:36 Spineless bastards running the game sucking up to the top clubs there for all to see.
Nothing less than what I had expected.
Brin Williams
17 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:44:55 This is exactly the sort of things that has turned me off football.
Kowtowing to the 'elite' and fuck the rest - and we 'Everton' will sit
back and let them walk all over us.

It makes me sick and but for the fact that I am an 'Evertonian' first and foremost I would not bother with any of them.

Fuck 'em all!!

Colin Glassar
18 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:57:43 Money talks and Chelsea have lots of it.
Phil Rodgers
19 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:54:40 An absolute disgrace. Football has gone to the fucking dogs. He is doing exactly what Ferguson used to do.
How many times this season have the opposition had a player charged retrospectively against us?

Carl Sanderson
20 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:57:06 That is beyond farce. Ivanovic locks his forearm across McCarthy's windpipe within 12 inches of the referee and gets away with it Scot-free. I'm surprised the FA haven't charged McCarthy retrospectively with walking on the blades of grass.
Oliver Molloy
21 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:54:43 Disgraceful decision by the FA,but are we really surprised.
How Ivanovic escapes TOTALLY is beyond me.
I hope it comes back to haunt them and Chelsea,for they have now opened a giant can of worms.
Basically I guess all players now know that you can grab an opposing player by the throat,put him in a headlock and stick your head into his head right in front of the referee who will do nothing!
You couldn't make this up.

Karl Jones
22 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:59:15 The FA are a bunch of idiots who preside over a multi-billion pound industry and employ unfit, weak willed and easily manipulated officials, whose inept decisions more often than not decide the outcome of PL matches.
This is another example of a decision which leads me to question whether they are being manipulated themselves by the mega rich clubs.
The most corrupt sport in the world.
Ian Jones
23 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:01:42 Interesting that the link to the FA site indicates that if the match officials didn't spot the original incident a panel of 3 decides.
Why was a panel needed in the first place. Can't believe the ref didn't see it. He seems to have a good view.

Tom Evans
24 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:02:51 Panel of three former elite referees my fucking arse . Since when have we had "elite" officials?
Self serving fucks the lot of them.
It has been a long time since I have been this wound up about such matters.
Colin Glassar
25 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:03:23 Nothing in football surprises me any more. The FA and Scudamore are beholden to the super rich clubs (Chelsea and the two Manchester teams) followed closely by their sentimental favourites; Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs. The rest of us just make up the numbers.
If these teams fail then, in their opinion, their brand fails and if their brand fails....... It's all about money to them and if that means turning a blind eye to cheating, gross misconduct, biased refereeing etc.....then so be it.
Commentators, pundits, journalists, sports presenters etc...are all part and parcel of this private club and they are their to ensure the status quo remains. Justice? Fair play? Equal rights? Respect? Forget it. This is a mafia, mob rule, oligarchy, plutocracy call it what you want it's a fucking disgrace but it's what we've got.
Carl Sanderson
26 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:08:04 Tom, I'm not wound up at all. It is so predictable that I'm not even angry.
What does rile me is tin-pot clubs like Chelsea and Man City being regarded as "big teams" on account of the fact that they have dropped the fucking lottery, and reaping the benefits from an obsequious media and cowed officials. (This morning's Daily Mirror referred to Willian's goal as "sensational", "stunning", etc. There was no mention of a deflection and no mention of Ivanovic.) Now that really rings my fucking bell.

Michael Winstanley
27 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:11:28 What a corrupt pile of shite.
Carl Sanderson
28 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:12:57 Colin Glassar, that is an excellent post. As long as the game keeps better bigger and richer, no-one will rock the boat.
Ross Edwards
29 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:11:00 Incompetent, clueless, idiotic, out of touch, self serving, dinosaurs who have proven once again that English football is being ruined by this clique.
'Elite' officials. Do me a favour. Refereeing this season has been atrocious and probably the worst I've ever seen. Mike Riley is an absolute joke and it's incredible that he is still in a job after presiding over the worst decline in refereeing ever in the Premier League.

The media are up Mourinho's backside and are in awe of this puppet master making them dance to his childish rhetoric. The FA have massively shit themselves over this 'campaign' rubbish he's been spouting and have done this.

Spineless decision by a group of useless dinosaurs who have no right to run our game whatsoever.

Barry Thompson
30 Posted 12/02/2015 at 18:50:19 How many of the referees currently officiating in the Premier League would you class as being anything other than shite. Week in and week out the bollocks dropped by these useless pricks are the main topic of the post match analysis. Jon Moss, regardless of his fuck ups last night has got to be one of the very worst. But hey, what can we expect when their boss is 'Old Mother Riley' another useless prick when he was officiating. Football is too big a business these days and the decisions, or should that be 'non decisions' made by these SKY 5 loving homers and bottle merchants can cost clubs dearly come the seasons end. I by the way, don't believe it all evens itself out.
Will Firstbrook
31 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:12:36 There was no way in hell the FA was going to provoke that Russian dog with the threat of another player suspension after the Costa. fiasco. Certainly not at the expense of a little Club like our's.
Like it or lump it, the end result was never in doubt. Weak willed officials, weak-willed governing body - it's a farce. Has been for some time an will continue to be as long as there is mega $$$ at stake.

Brett Jonathan
32 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:21:17 Mourinho really is a master at this media manipulation game. Concrete evidence showing Ivanovic stirring things up - covered from every angle, but Chelsea get off. Well done Jose.
One day we might have a manager who thinks there is more to a post-match press conference than telling every how awesome they are.

Kunal Desai
33 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:21:38 I think this is where people just give up on football. You don't see these sorts of shitty decisions from people who govern the sports of rugby and cricket. Football is going one way and more and more footballing fans and supporters will look for entertainment elsewhere.
Dean Adams
34 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:28:40 We have been told time and again that it is "intent" that is the trigger as to recieving a card or not. Just wonder how much intent you have to show. FA saying that Ivanovic incident did not merit a card! Just how far are they going to go with this incredible show of blatant cheating? Every year it gets worse. Some one has to make a stand or the game will turn into a fiasco, which is'nt far away.
Barry Thompson
35 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:27:54 Bottom line for me is that we are just too fucking nice. The antics and cheating from those chavvy bastards last night was a disgrace especially from that reprehensible pair of twats Terry and Ivanovic. How I wish we had someone in our team capable of snapping either of them two shithouses in half. Nice wins fuck all these days.
Mike Green
36 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:35:04 The worst part is it's so horribly believable. Tossers, one and all. Best not thinking about it too much to be honest.
Tom Evans
37 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:42:28 Echoing Barry#35, I am being swayed by the calls for us to start acting like twats and for some of our leading players to grow a pair and start facing up to the likes of that c**t Terry.
Gloves off now blue boys for fucks sake.
Carl Sanderson
38 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:43:56 Today's Grauniad basically said that Ivanovic had to be charged. It's easy to imagine the milquetoasts at the FA letting Ivanovic off just to spite the odd journalist who calls it as he sees it.
Carl Sanderson
39 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:47:24 Barry 35:
You are totally right. Terry, Gerrard, Flamini, Fabregas (what a twat he is) - they are all constantly in the refs' faces, all game in every game. It is psychological warfare and we are shit at it.

Oh for the days when Reid, Gray, van den Hauwe, Ratcliffe took no shit off anyone. Mind you, Sharp was a right moaning twat.

Paul Hewitt
40 Posted 12/02/2015 at 19:50:37 No