Do people still believe this was the fault of the Premier league and not due to the club’s incompetence?
I think the club needs to hold their hands up here and take some of the blame for what happened, but what really irks me about it all is how others clubs have been treat for breaking the rules. If I remember rightly, Rick Parry was heavily involved in Liverpool and they wanted to buy Ravenelli.Everything I've read on it suggests to me there was some degree of miscommunication between the club and the footballing authorities and a dollop of arrogance from Keith Lamb.
I don't think I've ever read Rick Parry's version of events either and he was the PL's Chief Exec at the time. He certainly didn't look good in Steve Gibson's assessment of the situation.
I agree and we have to remember Robbo was still a novice managerIf it was now, juninho, rav and Emerson would have been rested 4 the games v Hereford, Hednesford. Chester and Huddersfield.
Fjortoft and hendrie etc could easily handled those games
I also think the two massive cup runs effected us. I wouldn't swap them for the world but you can't say they didn't effect league form. We really struggled with the shear volume of games in the last couple of months.
I remember the 3 points chant at Cardiff when the FA guy came out (was it Parry?). Pure venom and we meant it, even the owld feller who was the most placid guy ever was spitting it out with fury. Go on dadThe 3 points chant helped me unleash months of angst, anger, and sheer agony. Talking about Teessiders being unified over 4 minutes in time
They were even to be heard from the Holgate in the sky . Peter was most unimpressed
Did he ever apologise for that or retract the statement?I remember that prat David Mellor telling the world that we were chanting 'Sieg Heil' at the Chelsea Cup Final, and not 'Three Points'! Tosser.