SwimWithTheTide":3ui6axa4 said:Deacon played against us for Crawley last season. He's awful. A decent step over against Arsenal in the FA Cup isn't justification enough to rate a player. His failings in his career are.
Keepitgreen":3ktdrqbx said:The FA and the Betting Commision are now looking into the pasty eating saga as bookies were running a book on it.
Lundan Cabbie":1amd4dnm said:And it now seems that Sutton United have asked him to resign over this Piegate stuff. A sad ending to what was a great story for the club.
Knibbsworth":38ryg5g4 said:At the time I thought it was so contrived and embarrassing when he ate that pie for the cameras/fans.
But the Sutton players are relatively normal blokes on normal wages enjoying their few minutes of fame and an excellent cup run.
Take a Sunday league side and put them on telly. If you pick a fat reserve and give him odds of doing something silly during a game, when he gets wind of it he's going to do exactly that for a laugh. His mates would never forgive him if he didn't.
To sack the bloke over it is ridiculous. It's SunBets fault for putting odds on for something that isn't exactly up to chance - he can easily do it if he wants to. Why shouldn't he? Why ruin his life over it by sacking him? What a load of nonsense.
Cobi Budge":1dg3todc said:Sutton aren't 'Sunday League', despite the BBC coverage making out that they are 483 leagues or so down.
Sutton are actually only a league below ourselves, they're in a league with a number of clubs whom we've played very recently, and whether they have other jobs or not, players in Sutton's league are, according to FIFA rules, professional footballers, including (until today) Wayne Shaw.
I laughed at the time I'll admit, I laughed a lot, but I can definitely see why Sutton offloaded Shaw, would you expect Torquay substitutes, or Lincoln substitutes, or Dagenham Substitutes, or Tranmere substitutes, or Wrexham substitutes to be doing the same?
Knibbsworth":24xklbo1 said:Cobi Budge":24xklbo1 said:Sutton aren't 'Sunday League', despite the BBC coverage making out that they are 483 leagues or so down.
Sutton are actually only a league below ourselves, they're in a league with a number of clubs whom we've played very recently, and whether they have other jobs or not, players in Sutton's league are, according to FIFA rules, professional footballers, including (until today) Wayne Shaw.
I laughed at the time I'll admit, I laughed a lot, but I can definitely see why Sutton offloaded Shaw, would you expect Torquay substitutes, or Lincoln substitutes, or Dagenham Substitutes, or Tranmere substitutes, or Wrexham substitutes to be doing the same?
What, eat a pie for a laugh because you're 20 stone, you've become an overnight icon of lower league football and a bookie has put odds on you at 8/1? What has listing all those clubs got to do with it? Akinfenwa would have definitely done it if he was on the bench and the gaffer's used all his subs, and fans are chanting one more pasty and you're dead!! Christ lighten up folks!! It was just a bit of self deprecating humour and banter with the fans. He probably wasn't in cahoots with the triads FFS or Russian gangsters. And even if he was, it would have been Sun Bets own fault for putting on such a stupid comedy bet.
Knibbsworth":wh8mf08a said:Cobi Budge":wh8mf08a said:Sutton aren't 'Sunday League', despite the BBC coverage making out that they are 483 leagues or so down.
Sutton are actually only a league below ourselves, they're in a league with a number of clubs whom we've played very recently, and whether they have other jobs or not, players in Sutton's league are, according to FIFA rules, professional footballers, including (until today) Wayne Shaw.
I laughed at the time I'll admit, I laughed a lot, but I can definitely see why Sutton offloaded Shaw, would you expect Torquay substitutes, or Lincoln substitutes, or Dagenham Substitutes, or Tranmere substitutes, or Wrexham substitutes to be doing the same?
What, eat a pie for a laugh because you're 20 stone, you've become an overnight icon of lower league football and a bookie has put odds on you at 8/1? What has listing all those clubs got to do with it? Akinfenwa would have definitely done it if he was on the bench and the gaffer's used all his subs, and fans are chanting one more pasty and you're dead!! Christ lighten up folks!! It was just a bit of self deprecating humour and banter with the fans. He probably wasn't in cahoots with the triads FFS or Russian gangsters. And even if he was, it would have been Sun Bets own fault for putting on such a stupid comedy bet.