The Football League have threatened Cardiff with an abandonment of the deal, if they cannot show them how they are paying for it.

Good on 'em.

I would love it if the deal fell through. Thousands of Cardiff folk left with their Craig Bellamy shirts as a reminder that cheating doesn't pay.

But the football league are practically toothless when it comes to this sort of thing.

I suspect that on paper they are not toothless in regards to player registration. But the issue is whether they would do anything about it.

I think we all know the answer to that one - Cardiff will get away with it AGAIN!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 926215.stm


Not the most surprising news, but the FL have approved everything.

There are times as a football fan (increasingly so) that you just feel less and less comfortable with the football industry. It makes you question how much longer the whole business can go on and hold the publics interest

For a competition run by the English FA, a club that doesn't play in any Welsh competitions - what a joke.

Harsh and a little unfair. Until the early '90s there was no League of Wales and there were a dozen Welsh teams plying their trade in the English leagues (albeit most were non-league). There was a Welsh cup competition which they were all allowed to play in, but because it wasn't affiliated to any FA, there wasn't a route into Europe for the winners. When the LoW was created, those who were professional teams in the English top 4 divisions (plus Newport County and Merthyr) were not interested in joining the new league, and why should they (from a business sense?)

Anyway, where's your ire for Berwick Rangers - an English team playing in the Scottish leagues?

My Cardiff mate has been singing...

No income tax, No VAT
We don't care we got bellamy
Whits and Jay and chops will score
Motherwell bailiffs at our door
...
God bless poverty
Viva poverty.......

THAT just about sums that poxy bleddy club up!