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by Richie_darlo
Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:31 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Punishment for the Boston game
Replies: 94
Views: 40634

Re: Punishment for the Boston game

He also claimed that - quoting verbatim - "we didn't even respond to the charge", which any number of public statements show to be untrue. Think what you like about the governance of the club (for my part it seems to be better now than it ever has been in my 25-odd years as a supporter, although tha...
by Richie_darlo
Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:45 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

"In these circumstances we believe that we have been misled by the National League, and therefore an objective independent person would consider it wholly unreasonable to require us to play matches until there is resolution to the financial and safety issues that have been known by the National Lea...
by Richie_darlo
Wed Feb 17, 2021 1:04 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

My personal fave along those lines is “Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty but the pig likes it” (George Bernard Shaw). Also v good. I'd like to think that - especially given the ongoing silence from him - the metaphorical pig in this particular case has come off the dirtier, and hasn't lik...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:12 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

This is excellent. I've needed an explanation of the concept of breach of contract for quite some time now, so I'm very grateful to you for providing it. Who knew that it was so famous and long-standing a legal principle?! It doesn't actually answer the question I asked, though, which was how you c...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

Breach of Contract....a radical concept you may not have heard of. Its only been in existence for centuries and is the subject of hundreds if not thousands of reported legal cases Imagine if you were able to do a Google search for yourself. You may come up with information like this https://www.lex...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:46 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

I’m no legal expert but what I do know is that the legal profession is very adept at constructing sentences and the use of language, especially in the spelling department. Spen is not. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You want me to write message board posts in legalease? Happy to do so, but most...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:34 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

"Those letters to Curzon and Dulwich are interesting." Aren't they just? "Is seems as if the NL Board have brought the charges & the NL Board have said they will be appointing the panel to decide the matter, if I have read the letters correctly"" You aren't sure whether you've been able to read the...
by Richie_darlo
Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:56 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

"Those letters to Curzon and Dulwich are interesting." Aren't they just? "Is seems as if the NL Board have brought the charges & the NL Board have said they will be appointing the panel to decide the matter, if I have read the letters correctly"" You aren't sure whether you've been able to read the...
by Richie_darlo
Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:42 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

"Those letters to Curzon and Dulwich are interesting." Aren't they just? "Is seems as if the NL Board have brought the charges & the NL Board have said they will be appointing the panel to decide the matter, if I have read the letters correctly"" You aren't sure whether you've been able to read the...
by Richie_darlo
Sat Feb 13, 2021 11:28 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void
Replies: 211
Views: 83511

Re: DFC Voted for League to be Null & Void

A number of teams have announced that they have/will furlough their contracted players and if necessary fulfil their fixtures using academy, non-contract players and probably anyone who stands outside the ground with his boots. Someone on twitter has asked if it is legal to furlough an employee and...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 09, 2021 6:31 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kettering Town
Replies: 67
Views: 30060

Re: Kettering Town

A club like York that want the season to carry on, would have a very good claim to take ot court that the voting is invalid, because after some clubs voted, the NL moved the goalposts ( re the testing). I would think such an argument had a good chance of succeeding. Not sure this would be much of a...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:24 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Kettering Town
Replies: 67
Views: 30060

Re: Kettering Town

A club like York that want the season to carry on, would have a very good claim to take ot court that the voting is invalid, because after some clubs voted, the NL moved the goalposts ( re the testing). I would think such an argument had a good chance of succeeding. Not sure this would be much of a...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:30 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: League restarts 6 February
Replies: 224
Views: 88650

Re: League restarts 6 February

I don't "have to resort to swearing" because someone holds a different opinion to me, pal. I choose to swear at you, because you're a pompous conniving arsehole. The clubs did not vote to start the season. They were instructed to start the season by the league. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. Yo...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 1:10 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: League restarts 6 February
Replies: 224
Views: 88650

Re: League restarts 6 February

It seems a crazy situation that a club like ours could effectively be forced into taking out crippling loans to carry on playing football in empty grounds with revenue streams cut off with no testing regime during a deadly pandemic. Our financial wellbeing could be effectively decided by clubs like...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:40 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: League restarts 6 February
Replies: 224
Views: 88650

Re: League restarts 6 February

As to the substance of the discussion, I endorse the analysis others have posted above. It invites an absolute clusterfuck where the NL national clubs work out that they can force through the completion of the season at both their and our level. Whether resolution 1 has to be a special resolution su...
by Richie_darlo
Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:20 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: League restarts 6 February
Replies: 224
Views: 88650

Re: League restarts 6 February

[/quote] The clubs are to partly to blame in my view for voting to start a season without ensuring plans were in place to finance it fully. They didn't think beyond the first 3 months. What business commits itself to a season of business with only funding agreed for half of it? Clubs were naive, ove...
by Richie_darlo
Sun May 17, 2020 12:02 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Raj Singh
Replies: 151
Views: 59512

Re: Raj Singh

.... When things return to normal the world is going to be a different place. I suspect a lot of football clubs will no longer be able to absorb the losses their current business models create. A lot of clubs will need a Walsall type model with significant external income sources to support their t...
by Richie_darlo
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:48 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Hereford
Replies: 78
Views: 32071

Re: Hereford

Apparently Styche has left today "by mutual consent"
by Richie_darlo
Fri May 08, 2015 8:43 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Change of playing name
Replies: 41
Views: 13809

Re: Change of playing name

It did take them a while, but then unlike us they were actually a new club, not an existing one that had a new name foisted on them by some gobshite at the FA. I don't see why they should set the precedent.
by Richie_darlo
Fri May 08, 2015 7:58 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Change of playing name
Replies: 41
Views: 13809

Change of playing name

As I remember, we applied to the FA last summer for our correct playing name to be reinstated. Being the FA, they (I think) rejected it without feeling the need to give any reasons for doing so. I was wondering whether anybody knew if we would do the same this year - or whether anybody reading this ...
by Richie_darlo
Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:49 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Sponsor a goal TODAY!
Replies: 54
Views: 10129

Re: Sponsor a goal TODAY!

I'm in for £20 per (second half) goal
by Richie_darlo
Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:41 am
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: Aldershut Out!
Replies: 32
Views: 16710

Re: Aldershut Out!

I got there at half-time, also cos of traffic, and (almost) had a similar result. Turnstiles were shut, but stewards clearly visible in the gap in the main gate. FOURTH DIVISION STEWARDS A Short Play By Me Me (very politely): Excuse me mate; could you find somebody who could let me in, please? Stewa...
by Richie_darlo
Fri Aug 07, 2009 11:19 pm
Forum: Virtual Feethams
Topic: WSC season preview
Replies: 1
Views: 1661

WSC season preview

"How will you do?" "Given that our current attack of Dean Windass (40) and Curtis Main (17) resemble a Werther's Original advert, it's going to be a struggle..." I can't be arsed to type out the rest, but I thought that was worth reproducing. They ask all the League 2 preview writers to vote for 4 t...