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That's good news. The farther it's kicked down the road, the better. Hiring the Man City solicitors is starting to pay off. September 2027 would be better still.
What I like about Ballard is that he is not just a good finisher but creates a lot of his own goals.
He'll almost certainly be one of the top scorers in the Championship, along with Wolves' . Raúl Jiménez and if he is, at £5 mill, he'll be an absolute bargain. He's only 21 and is going to be worth a lot more in the future. Will we have any striker who'll score as many goals as Ballard? We have to hope so.
No wonder Bristol City fans are excited "absolute baller and huge we've got him".
René Girard's scapegoat theory explains most group interactions, including this. It is always a weaker, more vulnerable member of the group that becomes the scapegoat to be punished, not one of the stronger, more powerful ones.
Yes, these decisions are heavily influenced by power and money. It's usually the smaller, poorer clubs that get hammered with the heaviest punishments.
The people on these disciplinary panels are all doing it for the money, not because they want to see fair play.
If Man City and Pep Guardiola had done something similar before the FA Cup Final, for example, there would only have been a fine. They certainly wouldn't have been thrown out or banned.
Chelsea have the advantage of being punished a long time after the event, so there was little pressure on the FA from the media or other clubs, unlike the Gibbo-orchestrated witch hunt Saints have been subjected to. There have been prominent social media campaigns from Middlesbrough and Pompey fans to bombard the FA with e-mails demanding that Eckert be banned.
They will know all the details of the EFL case and the severity of the punishment and will, therefore, look for something of similar severity. Even if Gibbo and his mates haven't told them what they expect, the panel members will know. It's about money, power and influence more than fairness. The panel members will want to be consistent with their colleagues and keep their lucrative Sport Solutions work on disciplinary panels.
The FA and EFL use the same agency to provide their disciplinary panel members: Sport Solutions. They are drawn from a small pool, who will all know each other as they frequently work together so it would be no surprise if the punishment meted out were another harsh one. Sport Solutions would not want them appearing to disagree over the same issue.
It will be interesting to find out the names of the panel members when the punishment is made public. They are mostly solicitors and barristers with connections to sport. They get paid handsomely by the hour and so would not want to upset Sport Solutions. The solicitor who played football for Middlesbrough could well feature again.
The FA and EFL use the same agency to provide their disciplinary panel members: Sport Solutions. They are drawn from a small pool, who will all know each other as they frequently work together so it would be no surprise if the punishment meted out were another harsh one. Sport Solutions would not want them appearing to disagree over the same issue.
I remember Bielsa was quite proud of doing it before every game, as it showed his preparation was meticulous, and he was rewarded with the FIFA Fair Play Award at the end of that season. The FA didn't give him anything though.
"FA Rule E3.1 states that a participant must act in the best interests of the game and not engage in any improper behavior that could bring disrepute to the sport. It prohibits violent conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent, or insulting words or behavior. An "aggravated breach" occurs when there is a reference to any of the following: ethnic origin, color, race, nationality, religion, belief, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, or disability."
Punishment = 1 to 3 match ban
As no FA rule covers scouting training sessions, that's what they came up with.
As we've seen in both the USA and UK in recent years, the pie in the sky people vote for is the root cause of most of our countries' problems. As for referendums, the timing of them, rather than the merits of the case, will determine whether people vote yes or no. In the case of the Brexit one, the timing and the pie in the sky on offer both turned out for the worse.
It would be better for everybody, apart from a few politicians, if our country were just governed by professional administrators, who are not hamstrung by being part of some ideological faction, especially not the most dangerous ones of the extreme left or right.
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