Whats wrong with football?

[BambooToTheFuture]

Oh Lord thats appalling.

Trashy, plastic and a massive facade. Quite an apt shirt for a team with Las Vegas in it's name 

[Peter Venkman]

Trashy, plastic and a massive facade. Quite an apt shirt for a team with Las Vegas in it's name 

True, it still looks like something drawn by my 10 year old autistic nephew though

[Private Fraser]

A maths professor has calculated it's likely to cost £773-60 to complete this year's Panini World Cup sticker book! Not counting 'swapsies', of course.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43566749

[Reg Smeeton]

A maths professor has calculated it's likely to cost £773-60 to complete this year's Panini World Cup sticker book! Not counting 'swapsies', of course.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43566749

Imagine what it will cost from 2026, when Infantino has got it expanded to 48 teams. I'm not sure this WC will be proper, but it might just about be... after this it will descend to farce.

[Quagmire]

The football league writing to the Accrington owner after he said he gives the team £200 to buy a McDonald’s when they win. With it not being in the contracts they’ve asked him to explain himself.
Laughable
Maybe Power should give it a go.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43617974

[tans]

Surely the EFL should have more pressing issues?

Pathetic.

Hope the Accy chairman sends them a big mac container full of shir

[chalkies_shorts]

I'd love the Accrington chairman as ours. Always seems to talk sense and not afraid to ruffle a few feathers. A bit envious of their league position as well.

[RobertT]

Surely the EFL should have more pressing issues?

Pathetic.

Hope the Accy chairman sends them a big mac container full of shir

It is not a million miles away from what we got done for, but on a smaller scale.  HMRC might even take an interest.  Any payment in kind, if someone was to determine it was that, would have tax implications.  We just used brown paper bags with a few notes in rather than chicken nuggets.

[horlock07]

It is not a million miles away from what we got done for, but on a smaller scale.  HMRC might even take an interest.  Any payment in kind, if someone was to determine it was that, would have tax implications.  We just used brown paper bags with a few notes in rather than chicken nuggets.

Is it a payment in kind though, on the same basis I have got royally rat arsed on various employers over the years when we have had a success, I assume that should all be declared via self assessment at least?

The HMRC are already stretched to buggery, before they also become part of the customs set up post Brexit, they having to investigate every employer for giving the staff a treat is going to take them wy beyond breaking point.

[Wobbly Bob]

Just relegate the fuckers by two divisions or a hefty points deduction.

Anything that will enable us to move up a place. 

[RobertT]

Is it a payment in kind though, on the same basis I have got royally rat arsed on various employers over the years when we have had a success, I assume that should all be declared via self assessment at least?

The HMRC are already stretched to buggery, before they also become part of the customs set up post Brexit, they having to investigate every employer for giving the staff a treat is going to take them wy beyond breaking point.

Technically speaking it probably should be declared, even more so if it is regular, which it seems it is.  I'm being pedantic though, using it to compare to the crazy punishment we received for something every business probably has going on, let alone football clubs.  It does beg the question about player fitness though - Accrington are top despite eating burgers and getting smashed at a free bar all season :-)

[leftside]

Surely the EFL should have more pressing issues?

Pathetic.

Hope the Accy chairman sends them a big mac container full of shir

I must admit, my first thought was 'I wonder how close this is to what we were done for?' Probably something of nothing though.

[Posh Red]

I guess if we had been giving our players bales of hay as bribes it would have been closer.

But we were giving them envelopes with cold hard cash in them, strikes me as a very different thing than buying them a burger when they win.

Most clubs feed their players at the training ground, does that have to be declared?
(albeit I guess they do that whether they win or not, unless it's steak if you win, SPAM if you don't)

[horlock07]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43630062

We would probably get demoted three divisions if we did this.....

[reeves4england]

With the Accy chairman, does it make any difference that he's (apparently) paid them out of his own cash rather than the club account? Or does it all fall into a grey area?