Hall on the Ball!

BBC London’s Russ the Cabbie

Now I don’t want to get you all excited, but since this season began

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‘Non League Show.’ My contribution is taking the listeners around a non-league ground; telling you what division the team play in, the entrance fee, where to have a beer and some interesting facts about

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wondered what I sound like, why not tune in on Monday nights on 94.9fm and hear my dulcet tones which have been likened to as a

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north of Watford, you have no excuses as you can podcast the show as well at www.bbc.co.uk/nonleague. If you are a fan of a non-league football, you can email the show and I’ll have a look around your ground. After all, why watch a bunch of mercenary, over paid badge kissers who can’t wait to siphon your hard earned cash each week and then p*ss off to another club/country, when there’s a game of

real 

amateur game is that it’s cheap, it’s cheerful, it’s fun, it’s grassroots, it’s non-league and if you haven’t tried it, I want you to go and have a look the next time your league side are playing away.

Things are hotting up!

As we’re now in the month of April already, things are beginning to hot

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since its inception back in 1992. At the moment it could be a ‘two

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not having one of their usual dominant seasons when they steam

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Arsenal and Liverpool that secure the top 4 places and you have to agree it was getting pretty boring. So boring in fact it was getting like

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the hunt, who were my pre-season favourite to oust Liverpool from the usual dominance of the top four places. Plus of course you can’t really dismiss Aston villa under ‘permanent nervous wreck on the

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No one can disagree that Arsenal have played the slickest football this season that is easy in the eye for the purest of lovers of the beautiful game and Arsene Wenger has always been able to spot a talent but from a million miles away but suffers from myopia when it comes to

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He’s been between the sticks for the Gunners six times this season

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having a pop at referee Martin Hansson but to be honest Arsenal’s

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aforementioned Liverpool, I feel this will be a turbulent season. No top

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goatie beard and grab a bit of sunshine back in his homeland which

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Roberto Mancini will gate crash the ‘top four’ with or without his scarf!

The Portsmouth Predicament

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administration, but I feel this is an easy way out of a problem that

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treating it more seriously and doing something more severe about it. At the moment, business law states that any club that can’t pay its debts, when demanded, is insolvent and shouldn’t be allowed to

 

Southampton went into administration, were punished by having 10 points deducted, then a few weeks later they went out and spent over

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with their debts cleared, which to me, seems to be a rather crafty

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they’d prefer their club to go into administration to clear debts. When

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administration penalty is a total waste of time, because some clubs might not even be affected by the 10 point deduction and still avoid

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fair, any club that goes into administration should be relegated to the

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right message to make sure that football clubs are run like proper businesses in the future. Why should clubs that are trying to run their ship in an orderly fashion, feel sorry for other clubs that have seen it

 

Authorities to sort out this mess otherwise clubs will be going into administration on a weekly basis. It’s time to stop this farcical state of affairs because the only casualties to this horrendous situation are the loyal fans and they are the ones that I feel sorry for.

Copyright Russell Hall 2010

 

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