I love mysteries, which is probably why I started studying the football league pyramid a few years back. During my time trying to work out what is actually going on I have gone from website to website and the one consistent factor that I have picked up on is that if something is on the F.A. Website nobody else is allowed to publish it on their own website.
Now I have always suspected that the F.A. are out of touch with the modern world, if only by their continued appointments as England Manager of those people who were "good a few years ago". We shall see if Sam Allardyce is another in the long line but I have a feeling that he may just be the man we need because I hate him with a passion. He was one of the first to park the bus in front of Arsenal and get a draw as a result. As England are not the perfect team that the press would have you believe we probably need to start with defence and then gradually build an attacking approach.
The F.A. Website clearly uses out of date processes to update its own systems. I have noticed that when teams change their names the F.A. still use the old name for a season and sometimes longer. I will pick up on name changes as I always try to identify which teams are the same as a similarly named team from the previous season and which are entirely new teams. This is not always easy given the dearth of information online. Often it is only the locals that know.
This season I went through the F.A.Cup draw and saw that Leicester Nirvana are still called Thurnby by the F.A. There must be some rule about cup entry if you change your name. Tower Hamlets were on the site as Bethnal Green but I have just checked the site and somebody has now updated that one. Now that I check again the name Thurnby has been changed to Leicester as well. This proves to me that the F.A. are just a bit slow or stupid. Either that or their processes are restrictive.
The mystery for me was when I found out that match number 66 does not exist on the F.A. Website but I feared not as the F.A.Cup draw, although banned by the F.A. from other websites, appears in various places at various times because enough people care about it. I found a good site where the information showed me that match number 66 is Bardon Hill Sports v. Kirby Muxloe. A quick search of my league tables revealed nothing in the top 10 tiers of the game. What was going on? Where were Bardon Sports? I found a website that referred to the Leicestershire Senior League and there I found them, but why are they the only level 11 team in the F.A.Cup? The mystery deepened.
I had to delve into last year's tables to find the Bardon Hill Sports team that entered the F.A.Cup. There was a Bardon Hill Sports that were relegated from the Midland League Premier Division. That must be the team that the F.A. were referring to. I guess they went through the classic departure of team and/or manager and folded. The club will continue in the Leicestershire Senior League and their second team will become their first team. This is a familiar situation that I went through with my first lower league team, Elmore Eagles.
It would be nice if the F.A. would put out a statement to explain this but they do like to keep everything secret. You are only allowed to know stuff if you are in the know. Match number 66 remains missing but it is possible to work out what has happened because in the Preliminary Round Kirby Muxloe are already in place. As the matches have not taken place this can only mean that a walkover has been awarded. Please you F.A. (change to expletives from definition) put a statement on your website to explain the situation.
This is an interesting time of year for me. I need to choose another (or the same) set of teams to follow at every level of the game for the new season about to start.
Arsenal are a given, but I may change any other team for any reason. I do, though, link up to the websites of any team that I have chosen to follow and some teams do a far superior job of keeping me informed than others. Those are the ones I am much more likely to visit and pay my entrance fee. I must recommend the Weston-Super-Mare efforts as I regularly get to see the goals.
My F.A.Cup spreadsheet is now set up for the season. Only one week until the competition starts.
Now I have always suspected that the F.A. are out of touch with the modern world, if only by their continued appointments as England Manager of those people who were "good a few years ago". We shall see if Sam Allardyce is another in the long line but I have a feeling that he may just be the man we need because I hate him with a passion. He was one of the first to park the bus in front of Arsenal and get a draw as a result. As England are not the perfect team that the press would have you believe we probably need to start with defence and then gradually build an attacking approach.
The F.A. Website clearly uses out of date processes to update its own systems. I have noticed that when teams change their names the F.A. still use the old name for a season and sometimes longer. I will pick up on name changes as I always try to identify which teams are the same as a similarly named team from the previous season and which are entirely new teams. This is not always easy given the dearth of information online. Often it is only the locals that know.
This season I went through the F.A.Cup draw and saw that Leicester Nirvana are still called Thurnby by the F.A. There must be some rule about cup entry if you change your name. Tower Hamlets were on the site as Bethnal Green but I have just checked the site and somebody has now updated that one. Now that I check again the name Thurnby has been changed to Leicester as well. This proves to me that the F.A. are just a bit slow or stupid. Either that or their processes are restrictive.
The mystery for me was when I found out that match number 66 does not exist on the F.A. Website but I feared not as the F.A.Cup draw, although banned by the F.A. from other websites, appears in various places at various times because enough people care about it. I found a good site where the information showed me that match number 66 is Bardon Hill Sports v. Kirby Muxloe. A quick search of my league tables revealed nothing in the top 10 tiers of the game. What was going on? Where were Bardon Sports? I found a website that referred to the Leicestershire Senior League and there I found them, but why are they the only level 11 team in the F.A.Cup? The mystery deepened.
I had to delve into last year's tables to find the Bardon Hill Sports team that entered the F.A.Cup. There was a Bardon Hill Sports that were relegated from the Midland League Premier Division. That must be the team that the F.A. were referring to. I guess they went through the classic departure of team and/or manager and folded. The club will continue in the Leicestershire Senior League and their second team will become their first team. This is a familiar situation that I went through with my first lower league team, Elmore Eagles.
It would be nice if the F.A. would put out a statement to explain this but they do like to keep everything secret. You are only allowed to know stuff if you are in the know. Match number 66 remains missing but it is possible to work out what has happened because in the Preliminary Round Kirby Muxloe are already in place. As the matches have not taken place this can only mean that a walkover has been awarded. Please you F.A. (change to expletives from definition) put a statement on your website to explain the situation.
This is an interesting time of year for me. I need to choose another (or the same) set of teams to follow at every level of the game for the new season about to start.
Arsenal are a given, but I may change any other team for any reason. I do, though, link up to the websites of any team that I have chosen to follow and some teams do a far superior job of keeping me informed than others. Those are the ones I am much more likely to visit and pay my entrance fee. I must recommend the Weston-Super-Mare efforts as I regularly get to see the goals.
My F.A.Cup spreadsheet is now set up for the season. Only one week until the competition starts.
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