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>"Certic" <PJS@winwaed.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:1016308313.4401.0.nnrp-10.9e98b74c@news.demon.co.uk...
>>
>> Stu <stu@stmirrenfc.net> wrote in message
>> news:a704kj$r6c$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> > "Han Monsees" <h.g.r.monsees@chello.nl> wrote in message
>> > news:a70436$hp0rc$1@ID-102087.news.dfncis.de...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Stu <stu@stmirrenfc.net> wrote in message
>> > > news:a702o6$u3q$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> > > > Anyone going to be able to tell me what happened in this game? Was
>> told
>> > it
>> > > > got abandoned with bout 10 mins left and something to do with not
>> enough
>> > > > players. Anyone able to help?
>> > > >
>> > > > Cheers
>> > >
>> > > According to BBC Ceefax:
>> > >
>> > > 3 Sheffield players had been dismissed when another Sheffield player
>got
>> > > injured and had to leave the pitch. Sheffield had already used their
>> three
>> > > substitutes, which means there were only seven Sheffield players left
>> and
>> > > the ref had to abandon the game.
>> > >
>> > > grtngs,
>> > > Han
>> > >
>> > Thought you had to be down to 6 players before the game got abandoned?
>> > Happaned with Hearts against Rangers a few years ago
>> -------
>> So hang on, what's to stop a team that's losing 2-0 going into injury time
>> in, say, a match they need to win to avoid relegation, feigning injury
>> and/or starting a mass brawl in order to get sent off and have the match
>> abandoned?
>>
>> --
>> You are Not entering Chapeltown.
>> We walk on two legs, the one abstract
>> the other surreal.
>> "No-one ever suddenly became depraved"
>> - Juvenal, Satires
>> --
>>
>>
>
>Exactly. That is why Megson is furious about this. He has said that if the
>League force a replay he will walk the players off the pitch as soon as the
>game is kicked off. I fully agree with his stance.
>
>This has been a disgrace by SUFC, and I am angry myself that they have
>screwed the fans who bought tickets. I know a hundred quid is nowt to the
>players and the club, but for those families who forked out the money and
>looked forward to the game this has been nothing short of fraud.


Au contraire my hairy Brummie friend. I've just spent the best 12 quid
of my life... now if Albion had actually tried to play football, I may
have a different point of view.
-- 
G.Sibon