Peterborough United have been given a suspended three-point deduction and fined £50,000 by the EFL for failing to comply with league regulations.

The club failed to declare chief executive officer David Paton as a relevant person in January 2022 and allowed him to act in that role without the written authority of the EFL.

Posh were charged in September and Paton had been suspended since then.

He has now left the League One club with immediate effect.

The three-point deduction is suspended until 31 December.

Posh said in a statement that they "regret the oversight" and apologised.

"We have implemented a rigorous set of procedures to ensure that such breaches do not occur in the future," they said.

"We thank the EFL for completing its investigation in a thoroughly transparent and professional manner."

THE MATCH

SATURDAY 15TH APRIL KO 3:00PM

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LAST MATCH



We got back to winning ways as we brushed aside Accrington. We go off to quick start and were rewarded when the ball fell to Adeniran 12 yards out and he finished well. We had few other chances while Stanley clipped the bar from a free kick. Onto the 2nd half and we quickly doubles our lead with Adeniran firing home from close range. We made the game safe when Bannan fed the ball through to Palmer, who steadied himself and fired it into the bottom corner. We saw the rest of the game out and went back top of the league but the others do have a game in hand. 

THE MATCH



Next up and a short trip to Burton. Burton, not too surprisingly, have been in the bottom half of the league for the season and currently lie in 18th place. They do look like they might avoid the drop, they have a 7 point gap to Accrington in 21st place and have a game in hand. There leading scorer is Victor Adeboyejo, who has 11 goals and a couple of assists. They are currently managed by Dino Maamria, who has been in charge since September.

ALL TIME H2H

OWLS 3
BURT 3
DRAWS 2

CURRENT FORM

OWLS              -                                                                                

BURT               -                                                      

EFL STOOGES

DOES IT MATTER THERE ALL CORRUPT  

WILL FINNIE
Steven Rushton and Richard Woodward
Fourth Official : Alan Clayton

THE TEAM

Dawson
Palmer Famewo Flint
Adeniran Bannan James Vaulks Johnson
Gregory Wilkes

SCORE & SCORER (HOME TEAM SCORE FIRST)

1-2 Gregory

WEDNESDAYS FIRT GOAL TIME

26

BML LEAGUE

Owlskev 25
Stateside 23
SCO 22
Imre 21
Wash 20
Maddix 17
Peiowl 14

OTHER GAMES OF MILD INTEREST

Chelsea v Brighton
QPR v Coventry
Forest Green v Barnsley
Rochdale v Bradford
Notts Co v Woking

AAAAH

THE MUPPETT LEAGUE




KATE BECKINSALE TRIBUTE PIC

Gamball:
Aston Villa - Newcastle

Others:
Wolves - Brentford
Chelsea - Brighton
Everton - Fulham
Southampton - Crystal Palace
Blackpool - Wigan
Stoke - WBA
Swansea - Huddersfield
QPR - Coventry
Exeter - Plymouth

outh Shields' promotion to National League North was made all the more special by the "expectation and pressure" they have played under this season, says boss Kevin Phillips.

The full-time Mariners won 1-0 at Whitby thanks to Tom Broadbent's goal, to win promotion with two games left.

It will be their first time at that level since reforming in 1974.

"I'm not normally emotional, but I am now as it's a massive achievement," Phillips told BBC Radio Newcastle.

"In my first full season in charge and being able to build my own squad, it's an incredible feeling to get over the finishing line with the pressures and expectation.

"There's huge relief but also monumental proudness of my players, the squad, the staff and everyone connected with the football club."

Ex-Football League players such as Broadbent, Blair Adams, Gary Liddle, Lewis Alessandra and Michael Woods have been key figures in the side this season, helping South Shields to 24 wins from 40 games and an unassailable eight-point lead at the top.

Such depth will make former Sunderland and England striker Phillips' life much easier when it comes to preparing for the next step.

"We've already been planning for next year," Phillips added. "We put a squad together last summer that if we did go up, could cope with the league above and we need to add maybe two or three additions, so we haven't got a busy summer going up.

"At the minute I'm not focusing on that, we just need to enjoy this occasion because it's an immense achievement."

Tom Broadbent
Tom Broadbent scored South Shields' winner at Whitby to earn promotion as champions
The ambition shown by chairman Geoff Thompson has already been a galvanising factor for Shields, attracting crowds of 3,000 to their 1st Cloud Arena home in nearby Jarrow.

About 1,500 away supporters made the trip down to the north Yorkshire coast to see promotion achieved, and double that is expected for their final home game against closest rivals Warrington next weekend.

He hopes the promotion will "bring some upturn" given the potential for sponsorship, gate income and other spin-offs.

Success this season also helps fans, players, coaches and the hierarchy to make peace, given their hopes of achieving this feat were dashed just three years ago.

"It's been long awaited," Thompson told BBC Radio Newcastle.

"We had the challenges over Covid when the season was null and voided, when we were 12 points clear with nine games to go.

"So this really feels like something that I'm not saying we deserved, but something that we've been waiting for, for a long time."

2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score      
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points

The random badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  
The joker   is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.

The prize for winning the league is one rep point.

Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in.
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year.  

End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.

The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point.

Friday 14th April:
Middlesbrough v Norwich City

Saturday 15th April:
Swansea v Town
Town scorers:
Swansea scorers:

Sheffield United v Cardiff City (12:30)
Blackpool v Wigan Athletic
Millwall v Preston North End
Queens Park Rangers v Coventry City
Reading v Burnley
Rotherham United v Luton Town
Stoke City v West Bromwich Albion
Sunderland v Birmingham City
Watford v Bristol City
Blackburn Rovers v Hull City (19:45)

Tuesday 18th April:
Sunderland v Town
Town scorers:
Sunderland scorers:

Blackpool v West Bromwich Albion
Rotherham United v Burnley
Sheffield United v Bristol City
Stoke City v Wigan Athletic
Millwall v Birmingham City

Wednesday 19th April:
Blackburn Rovers v Coventry City
Queens Park Rangers v Norwich City
Swansea City v Preston North End
Watford v Cardiff City
Middlesbrough v Hull City
Reading v Luton Town

Bonus match:
Saturday:
Scottish Premiership:
Hibernian v Heart of Midlothian (12:30)

Table after Matchday 34:

1. jjamez = 804 pts
   
2. Baggiebob(BBB) = 765 pts
   
3. themaclad = 764 pts
   
4. theo_luddite = 748 pts
   
5. St Charles Owl = 734 pts
   
6. neonfoxinthebox = 724 pts
   
7. Lord Snooty = 689 pts
   
8. ritchiebaby = 667 pts
   
9. Amelia Chaffinch = 642 pts
   
10. SHEP_HTAFC = 638 pts
    
11. Devongone = 606 pts
    
12. WakeyTerrier = 171 pts

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/234...statement/

So Robbie Neilson's inevitable dismissal finally materialised and HMFC officials trying to appease themselves with lots of disenchanted Hearts fans who finally had enough after their latest capitulation, 0-2 at home v the Buddies.

I want to see Hibs board "grow a pair" and take similar action to finally get rid of a worse manager than Neilson - a Hibs manager who similarly failed miserably today v a very poor Dundee United side that had never won a game in their last 11 fixtures - TOO MUCH! INEPT AGAIN, SLOW AND LABOURED - TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!!

Preston North End v Reading
                                                        DEEPDALE
                                                    10 APRIL 2023 KO 3.00PM



Our visitors last time out




FORM GUIDE

PNE 16  READING 4



https://www.readingfc.co.uk/

https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopi...1&t=190263

In The Dressing Room

Ryan Lowe confirmed Alan Browne was on crutches as a precaution after the game against Queens Park Rangers and that he would require a scan to determine the extent of the injury which the Irishman picked up in the first half.

Liam Lindsay should be good to go again after sustaining a head injury in the same game, but the defender battled on with a bandage to help his side keep a clean sheet.

Ali McCann, who is getting closer to a return, will be missing once again, as well as long-term absentees Ched Evans, Emil Riis and Greg Cunningham.

A Look At Our Visitors


After being hit with a six-point deduction last week, Reading will arrive at Deepdale in desperate need of points to lift them outside of the division’s bottom three.

Under Paul Ince, the Berkshire side found themselves at the other end of the table in the early stages of the season, having won seven of their opening 11 league games.

However, things have changed for the worse since then, and with just two wins since the turn of the year and none in their last seven games – as well as their point deduction – there is plenty of work still to do.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 66
PNE wins: 26
Draws: 13
Reading wins: 27
Last meeting: Reading 1-2 PNE, 4th November 2022

One To Watch

North End will have to deal with the presence of 6ft 4in striker Andy Carroll on Monday afternoon.

The former England international – who scored once in a short-term loan with Preston North End back in the 2007/08 season – has netted eight goals so far this campaign, including two in his last three games.

With experience of being promoted out of the Championship, and winning the League Cup among other achievements, Reading will also be looking to call upon the knowhow of Carroll to help them survive in the second tier.

Match Officials


For the second season running, John Busby will referee a meeting between Preston North End and Reading at Deepdale.

While North End were on the wrong end of the scoreline that day, PNE have enjoyed themselves in the main with Busby in the middle, with the referee overseeing a victory over Swansea City, and a win and a draw against Coventry City this term.

In total, Busby has taken charge of 28 games this campaign, showing 108 yellow cards and four reds.

MANAGER

Paul Ince

Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (/ɪns/; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship side Reading. A former midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1982 to 2007, starting his career with West Ham United and later representing Manchester United, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Swindon Town and Macclesfield Town in England, as well as Inter Milan in Italy. With a combined total of 271 league appearances for the two, Ince is one of the few players, especially in the Premier League era, to have represented both of arch rivals Liverpool and Manchester United.

Ince spent the majority of his playing career at the highest level; after breaking through with his then-Second Division boyhood club West Ham United, he joined Manchester United in 1989 where he would win the Premier League twice, the FA Cup twice and the Football League Cup once during his six year spell at Old Trafford. After falling out with manager Alex Ferguson, Ince was sold to Inter Milan of Serie A in 1995, where he was a runner-up in the 1997 UEFA Cup.

After two years in Italy, Ince returned to the Premier League with Liverpool, later also representing Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the top flight before beginning to move into coaching in the mid-2000s. After a spell as player-coach of Swindon Town, he retired from playing while player-manager of Macclesfield Town in 2007. He went on to manage Milton Keynes Dons (twice), Blackburn Rovers, Notts County and, after an almost-two-year break, Blackpool. He was capped 53 times by England, scoring two goals.

As a player, he won numerous honours with Manchester United, and became the first black player to captain the England national team.[3] His son Tom is also a footballer.

THE JOY OF EX



MACS VIEW

Easter Monday buisness end of the season and quite bizarrely we are still in with a chance of losing to Middlesbrough in the play off semis, quite how we have still managed to be in with a chance is just weird but apart from being dicked by Boro and Burnley we have actually been in a decent bit of form. We have actually won some home games which after losing five on the trot does make a difference, if we had done better in those games we'd bwe challenging the tp two.
Any Reading at home should be winnable aganst the legend that isn't Paul Ince, presently in the drop zone due to the inability of their board to run a booze up in a pub having points docked once is stupid twice is criminal.
Will the Royals be up for it, we shall see tomorrow, a win for us and we can keep dreaming

Altrincham 2-2 Gateshead
Bromley 1-0 Boreham Wood
Dag & Red 1-2 Chesterfield
Eastleigh 1-0 Aldershot
Maidenhead United 1-2 Torquay
Maidstone United 0-2 Barnet
Scunthorpe 0-2 Oldham
Wealdstone 2-0 Solihull Moors
Woking 0-1 Southend
Wrexham 0-1 Notts County
Yeovil 1-1 Dorking
York 2-2 Halifax


League Table After Matchday 54
SaltergateBorn - 981
Devon - 935
St Charles Owl - 921
Spireitematt - 846
Lord Snoots - 821
Dancing - 811
Amelia - 731