Talksport
programme host.
Ignorance
Astounding!
This is what I thought happened. Hardly 'hammered'.Yeah, they got completely dicked:
Queens Park Rangers are set to avoid a crippling fine from the Football League that relates to the club exceeding financial fair play rules in 2013-14, with the punishment expected to be around a more manageable £8m.
The Championship club’s figures for the period in question, which was their promotion season back into the Premier League, showed losses of £9.8m, although the chairman, Tony Fernandes, and the other shareholders wrote off a further £60m in loans. The manner in which they did so raised questions and they have been at the heart of the FFP discussions between the club and the Football League.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/18/qpr-fine-financial-fair-play-8m
I thought Bournemouth had paid their fine?
Just listening to a QPR fan on Talksport explaining that QPR got 'hammered' when relegated for alleged FFP breaches in their promotion season.
"Really?" said the programme host. "Aren't there ways round that?"
Astounding!
I thought Bournemouth had paid their fine?
It amazes me that the media conveniently ignore cheating by clubs when waxing lyrical about their achievements.
QPR, Bournemouth and Leicester all won the Championship by flouting FFP rules, yet the media gloss over inconvenient facts that get in the way of a good story. Leicester had recently been in administration, too, so one might say that they cheated twice.
Then there is Newcastle United. If they are found to have cheated the taxman, we will be able to add them to the list of clubs who have won the Championship (or otherwise been promoted to the Premier League) by improper means.
We missed out on the title (and I for one am still annoyed about that), but at least we gained automatic promotion without recourse to flouting FFP or administration or tax evasion.
Is it cheating if you accept your punishment? .
All football is cheating then as Chelsea & Man City are prime examples of paying money that is put into the club by rich owners. I don't see the issue with spending money if it is done correctly. e.g. not like QPRIs it cheating if you accept your punishment? What about year one of FFP when there were no punishments and virtually all clubs ignored it?
Newcastle (and West Ham) are almost certainly to be being used as test cases and I'd be very surprised if there aren't 42 other clubs in the top two divisions quietly shitting themselves and hoping that the taxman doesn't look too deeply at image rights payments made to their players.
Is it really much of a punishment to have to pay a small fine while reaping the rewards of PL money - different to those who stayed down ,eg Forest who had their transfer embargo.
If you cheat in an exam (and caught) you lose the pass mark, will FFP cheaters lose promotion, of course not
All football is cheating then as Chelsea & Man City are prime examples of paying money that is put into the club by rich owners. I don't see the issue with spending money if it is done correctly. e.g. not like QPR
For us (Bournemouth) overspending on wages in the championship like many others was money well spent to get us into the top money league. The FA or PL don't care really as long as they are making money the whole system is corrupt anyway.
All football is cheating then as Chelsea & Man City are prime examples of paying money that is put into the club by rich owners. I don't see the issue with spending money if it is done correctly. e.g. not like QPR
For us (Bournemouth) overspending on wages in the championship like many others was money well spent to get us into the top money league. The FA or PL don't care really as long as they are making money the whole system is corrupt anyway.