Chairman of Accrington Stanley, best club in 92. Great asset for Hyndburn, generating much needed footfall and social goodness. Football vital for community.
How did football survive from 1882 until 1992 without
@premierleague
???
They are an absolute joke, claiming to be the saviour of football with their meagre handouts.
They have one objective, that is to monetise football and funnel all the proceeds to themselves. It wasn’t…
The FA and The
@premierleague
have reached an agreement to strengthen the
#EmiratesFACup
format and increase support for grassroots football.
Swipe for details ➡️
This one is going to bore many, I will keep it as simple as I can...
I took over
@ASFCofficial
not because I loved it, supported it, nor was I a particular football fan. I’ve had a table
@ManUtd
so that says a lot about me 😂.
Accrington, a founder member of the football..
Have a drink on us.🤝
It’s a long trek from
@Only1Argyle
so for the expected 600 or so, hand your ticket in at the bars and you will get a free cold drink.
Beer, pop, water etc.
Regardless of the result today we wish you all the best.
Club will put details out soon.
Stop whining for Christ sake.
You have everything at your disposal and it’s still not enough.
If these players should be playing L1, LET THEM GO and buy them back when they’ve been trained.
Pep Guardiola suggests that Manchester City should be able to put their U23 squad into the Championship or League One after Carabao Cup game with Wycombe
I’m not known for grumbling 😳 but credit where it’s due.
@ManCity
have given us as new goal posts for free and Bracewell transport collected them for nowt.
Saved us over a grand. Much appreciated. 😊
Calling Pep
@ManCity
….
Away attendance
@ASFCofficial
for the
@LCFC
U21’s game was 8.
Not 8,000…
8
A Peugeot traveller full.
Please bear this in mind next time you’re pushing for B teams in the
@EFL
league structure.
The
@premierleague
and
@FA
still don’t realise how easy it is to get football supporters to hate them even more. I’d have thought it was difficult but they always manage to find a way.
They’re tone deaf. Blinded by self interest.
Do we even need an
@EmiratesFACup
anymore?
It’s being trashed by the
@FA
What if we quit the comp and build
@EFL
cup, opening it to Non league sides?
We’re the clubs playing the majority of FA cup games in any case. Big clubs don’t start till is nearly over.
Thoughts??
Finally.
I’m sorry I can’t resist it.
@HullCity
complaining to
@EFL
about our changing rooms (after we beat them BTW!)
How do you think we feel using them every week ?
By Dion for £5m and I’ll make some posh ones for next time you come😇😇
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And
@Wrexham_AFC
streamed the match internationally, a match that WE paid for and hosted, without us receiving a single $cent.
Under rules set by previous employee of
@EFL
who now works for Wrexham.
So don’t start me off 😂😂
Talking of big clubs, my visit to
@SunderlandAFC
yesterday was my best ever away day.
Their staff and directors treat us as equals, though we aren’t.
They’re building something good up there listening to their plans and I am 100% certain they’re going to succeed.
They talk...
My mates daughter (24) died last night.
Had anorexia, caught
#COVID19
and was too weak to fight it.
The last thing the world needs right now is pricks on here denying it.
The scary thing is that a large % of people now actually support these sackings as they’ve become accustomed to it... How can you build a football team without getting 2-3 years. A rule change is required to moderate sackings of managers mid season in their first year at a club.
If
@SalfordCityFC
get L1 next season I’m going to start going to divisional meetings again for balance.
Vote for salary cap, never wanted salary cap.
Don’t believe in sacking managers.
Paying wages far higher than many L1 clubs whilst in L2.
Saving the game?
My arse.
I won’t be voting
@Coventry_City
out of the league.
@EFL
need to find a way to get at owners risking their clubs, not clubs and supporters.
We should be protecting clubs from shit owners.
Instead we allow clubs to wither on the vine, without tackling owners.
This was 10 mins ago. The potentail buyers are using our budgets to get a feel of theirs if a deal is done for
@buryfcofficial
Work is going on. It might be too late but 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
All clubs outside
@premierleague
need to push back against ANY change to
@EmiratesFACup
and show
@FA
they can no longer assume that the majority of clubs will just roll over on any issue in ANY competition in future.
Football is a democratic operation. Agreement has to be…
We are writing to
@EFL
to tell them NOT to debate
@EmiratesFACup
4th round replays with
@FA
and
@premierleague
unless or until our clubs give them the go ahead.
There should not even be a discussion unless WE expressly ask them to do so.
It’s OUR
@EFL
The board works for us.
This is our income from the game against
@BarnsleyFC
that I’m publishing to thank both sets of fans.
It doesn’t include season ticket or loyalty card income.
It’s why we built the new stand and why we have to allocate tickets to try to fill the place.
Visiting fans matter
#ASFC
I hope
@CamBurgess95
doesn’t mind this. I didn’t know his agent at the time and didn’t speak to him. Though I have since and he’s a top agent I’d recommend.
The only thing I’ve cut out of this thread is my phone number.
Why would the hapless
@FA
scrap early round replays that can be lucrative to minnows? A chance to change their financial fortunes? Against
@EFL
clubs?
I expect nothing less of Masters and Co
@premierleague
buying the game into a format that suits their needs.
As usual.
The FA and The
@premierleague
have reached an agreement to strengthen the
#EmiratesFACup
format and increase support for grassroots football.
Swipe for details ➡️
At face value...
Stewart Day had sold the stadium which has a debt on it of around £3.7m. The interest charged, eye watering.
He had sold car parking spaces, around 250 of them, at £10,000 a pop.
Without a deal to settle these liabilities there was no hope.
So that’s £6.2m
***Update***
@ASFCofficial
1. I put the club up for sale a while ago. Whilst there has been a lot of interest, we are not actively in discussions with anyone in this regard.
There are a lot of clubs available to purchase, and there is a lot of choice.
My guess is you’ll
Then I receive a letter from
@EFL
demanding an explanation because the
@McDonaldsUK
is not specified in the players contracts.
You have to wonder what these folk would do with their life if it wasn’t for my errors of judgement.
The
@EFL
are 72 clubs, nothing else.
Nobody at our club including someone actively involved with the
@FA
knew anything about this.
We should be actively supporting minnows not taking opportunity away.
I’d also support them choosing to play away if it earned them more income.
He’s a disgrace.
I’ll never understand why top clubs and top
@premierleague
players don’t stand up and stay united with clubs and players further down the pyramid.
This is pure selfishness of the highest degree.
I’d drag myself out of bed to play the replay.
Because it’s...
Jürgen Klopp has confirmed that he and his first team will not be involved in the FA Cup replay with Shrewsbury, stating that they will "respect the winter break" organised by the Premier League. Neil Critchley will take charge of the team.
Friday 13th Feb 1981 my dad departed. 38 years old.
“I love you son” his voice is still as clear in my mind as if it was yesterday.
Not a day goes by.....
RIP Dad ❤️
Why have we suddenly got a minority of fans being absolute dicks lately?🤬🤬
This is a disaster.
Behind the scenes major progress is-was being made to lighten up rules and restrictions, reduce aggressive stewarding and police…
Talk to
@EFL
about this regularly who were…
A lady walked in the new facilities
@ASFCofficial
yesterday, said they looked great, asked if I was happy with them, then handed us a cheque for hundreds of pounds from her family as a donation ❤️😩
Wouldn’t take it back.
It’s about community.
Bet that doesn’t happen in PL.
I’m still staggered by the shamelessness of this Government.
This is worse than Barnard Castle for me.
‘New scheme nobody knows about saves Minister from having to isolate’
Jim are you for real? Lower league clubs are on their arse and top
@premierleague
clubs are pushing them further down to sate THEIR greed.
It’s all about money.
You criticise lower league owners of trying to protect what little they have now.
🙄
It’s frustrating when certain cynical lower league club owners big up replays as if for the good of the fans and the players when in reality their only interest is in the money it brings in - money they need to paper over their financial mistakes to stay afloat a little longer.
The FA and The
@premierleague
have reached an agreement to strengthen the
#EmiratesFACup
format and increase support for grassroots football.
Swipe for details ➡️
So I’m going to try to simplify this....
... but it might not be simple enough.
The Mirror man will never know as much as me on these subjects, because I have sat in the meeting where they’ve been discussed with other owners.
I spoke to a couple of
@SkyBetChamp
clubs on the...
Because
@NorwichCityFC
and
@WatfordFC
have gone back up to
@premierleague
via the rigged parachute set up, the other 22 clubs are blowing nearly £500m a year in losses chasing ONE single place.
4 in playoffs, one of which has rigged parachute cash.
Mugs game.
Wake up guys ffs.
"I've managed at every level, and who's to tell me that top one is better than where I'm at now? I don't think it is."
Ian Holloway is fuming over the treatment of smaller clubs... 😡
📹
@footballdaily
Absolutely no issues of note. Spoke to our staff this morning for debrief.
Top travelling support
@swfc
Our police were happy to let fans mix, once again it was shown that supporters treat right, respond in kind.
A credit to your club.
Give the guys at Accrington Stanley and this fella
@AndyhHolt
some respect today. Proper club with proper leadership thats come on in leaps and bounds. Lets show them what incredible support is all about
#swfc
My view on
@CPFC
Viera incident.
No further action.
Players, managers, officials being assaulted are entitled to protect themselves.
We need to stop them being in the position where they feel they need to.
Accrington Stanley's
@AndyhHolt
picks up the title of English Football's Best Owner for a second consecutive season!
Here's the top ten owners, as voted for by you!
Reyt.
Season ticket prices are going up as we re stabilise the club following disastrous relegation from
@SkyBetLeagueOne
Relegation that was deserved.
The increases to season ticket prices will
Generate an extra £34k
Remember we’re in a million pound hole.
So...
...last one this morning.
@EFL
breakup.
The EFL turns over around £150m
It doesn’t defend its clubs. In fact it expels and destroys them, fines them, deducts points from them, has lawsuits flying around, applies rules disproportionately.
The
@SkyBetChamp
loses...
Bristol Rovers president Wael Al-Qadi has told fans he will protect the club and its staff after the League One club announced debts of over £24m.
More details 👉
#bbcfootball
Listen you fool.
If you needed 3 points for promotion and we played a load of kids against your promotion competitor in the race, giving them a 5-0 and 3 point win, you’d squeal like a pig.
The
@EFL
would fine us.
So none of this shit that playing kids doesn’t matter.
I don’t know why we can’t expand the
@EFL
Cup. Everybody below
@premierleague
play as occurs now in
@EmiratesFACup
Prem clubs invited to join in if they want.
If they don’t, that’s their choice.
All club below prem quit the FAcup.
We can’t let prem and FA away with this.
Anyhow....
A very good friend of mine had an aneurism a couple of weeks ago, talk about shit..
Life support
Pneumonia
Sepsis
Dialysis
Blood clots
Today, he’s begun breathing for himself 🤞🤞🙌🙌🙌
Thanks to the NHS.
Come on Terry, KEEP FIGHTING ffs! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
So
@ASFCofficial
vs
@swfc
If you’d said 6 years ago…
Anyhow, it’s an absolute pleasure to welcome everyone from Sheffield Wednesday to our place.
We will bust a gut to try to make it a great day for everyone.
This is football.
See you all soon.
Come on you reds 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️
Big game at
@SunderlandAFC
in a top of the table clash. 😇
These are the days I will never take for granted.
Soak it up folks!
Come on you Reds ❤️
Ha’way the lads.
May the best team win.
🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴🔴
He sees everyone else losing games as solution to his problem.
But is more than happy to play more European games.
Be great to see them outside top 6 for a while, so he can rest his players without worrying about
@ChampionsLeague
games tiring them out.
Could stop crying then.
🗣 "Burnley I'm not sure how many players of them play international football, when our players have three games they have no game."
Jurgen Klopp outlines the problems with having the rule of 14 Premier League clubs voting in favour of changes like five substitutions
Said to
@AFCWimbledon
staff before the match, ‘if we have to lose a game, I’d rather it be to you, you’re doing great job down there, top club’
No need to batter us though 😳😂😂
Jesus Christ
@SkyJacquie
I’m watching you banging on about
@ChelseaFC
what about, players, what about Chelsea what about academy set up by RA.
What about thousands dying for no reason in Ukraine?
What about the threat of nuclear war?
What about chemical weapons?
You know for me the problem with
@EFL
is this:
I never feel they fight for our 72 clubs in a way I’d fight for them.
I never see any red lines published to protect our collective in a way I’d set them.
I never hear them asking clubs what they think should be the agenda..
4 years ago tomorrow I ended up becoming the major shareholder of
@ASFCofficial
@EFL
are still regretting passing me as fit and proper 🤷♂️
You never know what life has in store for you.
😂😂
I’m delighted he got the move HE chose, he liked
@Pompey
on his visit.
As a club, to bring players in at the bottom we have to let them out at the top.
There is no other model for
@ASFCofficial
Nothing but gratitude to Colby, top man, hope he smashes it.
I keep saying ‘every now and again something turns up that really gives me a lift’
Remember, if we
@ASFCofficial
@ASFCacademy
@stanleyfctrust
do our jobs right, the whole town prospers.
Jobs, wages, exercise, health....
Thanks for the letter Andy, appreciated. 👍