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Lack of flexibility is bad, then maybe this is the answer - issue them all with a foam batons. It's bound to be the cheapest option too, as they are only a few quid each on Ebay so 2 birds with 1 stone

Newsflash - Public sector uses procurement whether it be the Police, MOD or Councils. Each one will use it's own procurement arrangements and they will have put out appeals for companies to tender for those contracts and this will mean that there will be therefore a variation in the price that...

So several posts refer to procurement however the discussion can't be widened on this and has to stay focused solely on night sticks as it is something that can be used to bash ... the Tories ?

??? - I suggest you read the whole reply. No mention of the police at all, or their equipment but it was a general reply about the issues with the procurement process, and also to the point about the suggestion to have 'cheapest' price rules in place during procurement "All you’d have to do...

A big drawback to that is that cheapest isn't always best. For example why buy some piece of equipment for £300 that will break within 2 years when they can buy one for £350 that will last a decade or longer? The biggest issue is that there is a lack of flexibility when it comes to public...

The law of diminishing returns in full effect

However the non league team players may find a game staged away to a league club may be their only ever opportunity to play in a league ground in their career, that rule would deny them that opportunity Secondly, what if the non league team has a very small ground, which will limit income...

It would only make any sense if they were to bring forward the date for the 3rd round when PL clubs enter the competition, (meaning potentially fewer games in the 2nd half of the season) however if that remains the same, i can't see the argument to support their being scrapped

The FA in the 1990's - Not caring about, or acting to help protect the future of lower league clubs The FA now - Not caring about, or acting to help protect the future of lower league clubs

yes please

Not City. They still have 115 charges hanging over them which should have already been dealt with by the football authorities and if guilty (as the outcome is expected to be) the punishment for their breaches would have already been handed out (which may have included relegation down 1 or more...

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I'm going to reply to this comment properly, but on a new thread which will follow shortly

Presuming the booing was aimed at the ref at half time? which just happened to take place just as a fair few of our players were starting to disappear down the tunnel. Surely if it is aimed at the ref, why boo when there are plenty of chants that could be used instead to make their feelings...

In response to the original question posed, i'd have expected us to have been wound up and gone out of business. There may well have been a phoenix club, but we would have faced a lot of problems even with that (finding a place to play, finding a squad / manager, would fans of the original...

Would we? We (the fans) had a reputation for protest and disruption (pitch invasions, protest marches, game called off (York) after a pitch invasion and the crossbar was snapped (which happened to be described iirc as a riot, with running battles between fans and riot police) and so on.... so...

Were they newly homeless too? with no clue where they would be playing their matches the following season?

We wouldn't have had a home ground of our own, would we have found it easy to find somewhere to a) play, and b) be able to generate enough income to break even, (we were in a predicament that let the clubs we approached to ground share dictate how much they charged us, and could exploit that...

I went into that bar on the day of the match, and there didn't seem to be anything in there to remotely suggest that there had been any trouble in there the day before They were also more than happy to allow Brighton fans in to drink on match day, which would have been unlikely if there had...

If the owners are rich enough and are willing to put the money into the club and pay those bills from their own wealth, should they be stopped from doing that? They wouldn't be saddling the club with debt, but the rules stop them from doing that despite having the money to actually pay for it...