18-05-2018, 18:06
I want to see an honest Chesterfield, not a Cheaterfield or a Chesterfield that is the first to leap in to try to profit from any old stray Ched Evans. I want to feel proud of our club. I want the place where I was born and lived a lot of my life to both be doing well and to be highly regarded. Wouldn't it be great to hear some fans saying, "Why can't we do a Chesterfield?" instead of "Thank Christ we're not Chesterfield!"
One of the troubles with football regs is that it is very difficult to draw the line between hospitality or civility and an illegal approach. Everyone knows that little chat in the corner of the bar is an illegal approach, but it's also the losing side congratulating the winners over the prawn sandwiches mmmmmmm. Take England in Russia. Lingard and Rashford are chatting to Ruben Loftus-Cheek, "Mate you need to get your agent to get you out of Chelsea they'll just loan you out again f'sure, but you'd fit right in with Jose and us up in Manchester. He was telling us last week how he wishes he could get you up here ........" Illegal approach or new mates chatting? It happens all the time and all the way down to the local amateur game - no team wants to go through the hassle of the seven-day system locally unless they know they've a pretty good chance of success.
An illegal approach is hard to prove. Sprog Carson says, "Yeah I seen Dave and Martin Allen 'aving a chinwag. They were 'aving a right laugh and I thought they're gettin' on well. I thought I wonder if he we could get him as our next manager that's all. Worth a flutter, didn't tell me dad, o' course."
If it cost us a fortune we'd be unlucky in a way. Football is dirty, corrupt and criminal. It operates double standards all the time - look at Allardyce: tears and protests all the way out the back door at Everton over his treatment. No mention of the millions he is collecting and the corruption he even had the nerve to display within a month of becoming England manager ....... Thing is though, because it is dirty, corrupt and criminal football occasionally has to catch the odd naughty boy to maintain the illusion that it's clean. And it could be Cheaterfield again.
One of the troubles with football regs is that it is very difficult to draw the line between hospitality or civility and an illegal approach. Everyone knows that little chat in the corner of the bar is an illegal approach, but it's also the losing side congratulating the winners over the prawn sandwiches mmmmmmm. Take England in Russia. Lingard and Rashford are chatting to Ruben Loftus-Cheek, "Mate you need to get your agent to get you out of Chelsea they'll just loan you out again f'sure, but you'd fit right in with Jose and us up in Manchester. He was telling us last week how he wishes he could get you up here ........" Illegal approach or new mates chatting? It happens all the time and all the way down to the local amateur game - no team wants to go through the hassle of the seven-day system locally unless they know they've a pretty good chance of success.
An illegal approach is hard to prove. Sprog Carson says, "Yeah I seen Dave and Martin Allen 'aving a chinwag. They were 'aving a right laugh and I thought they're gettin' on well. I thought I wonder if he we could get him as our next manager that's all. Worth a flutter, didn't tell me dad, o' course."
If it cost us a fortune we'd be unlucky in a way. Football is dirty, corrupt and criminal. It operates double standards all the time - look at Allardyce: tears and protests all the way out the back door at Everton over his treatment. No mention of the millions he is collecting and the corruption he even had the nerve to display within a month of becoming England manager ....... Thing is though, because it is dirty, corrupt and criminal football occasionally has to catch the odd naughty boy to maintain the illusion that it's clean. And it could be Cheaterfield again.