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O/T Doncaster Rovers Belles Demoted by FA in Favour of Emirates Marketing Project Ladies

Jordinho

Jordinho

Martin Peters
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Doncaster Rovers Belles will appeal against the Football Association's decision to demote them from the FA Women's Super League top tier in 2014.

The club has been a mainstay in the top flight for 22 years, in the newly-formed FA WSL since 2011 and the women's Premier League since 1991.

But next season they will be replaced by Emirates Marketing Project Ladies.

"To say we are disappointed might be the understatement of the year," Rovers chairman Alan Smart told BBC Sport.

"We've had support from all over the world and people are angry and bemused at the decision.

"But we are built on a wider fabric than one big benefactor. Doncaster Rovers Belles are a massive community club. We are made of strong stuff and we will fight on."

As one of the founding members of the national women's league, Doncaster have twice won the league and FA Cup double and were synonymous as women's football grew in the early 1990s.

But from next season the summer league will expand to two divisions, with Emirates Marketing Project joining seven other teams in FA WSL 1.

Having finished second from bottom in the first two WSL seasons, Doncaster will drop down a division to FA WSL 2 and compete against nine other sides.

The FA made its decision via an independent panel where clubs were assessed on their financial sustainability, where factors such as management, marketing and the quality of their coaching staff and facilities were considered.

Doncaster discovered the news after one game of this season, with boss John Buckley calling the situation "farcical".

The decision to split the league into two tiers, with relegation and promotion between both, is part of the FA's five-year plan to make women's football the second most-played sport in the country behind men's football.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22573491

Basically, they've been forced to drop into a new 2nd Division because City Ladies have more money.

Petition here: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/doncasterbelles
 
The First Division was increased from 20 to 22 clubs for the 1919/20 season and even though Arsenal only finished 5th they were promoted above Barnsley and Wolves and at the expense of Tottenham who were relegated. It is rumoured that their chairman Sir Henry Norris was linked to some dubious backroom deals
 
Lily White said:
The First Division was increased from 20 to 22 clubs for the 1919/20 season and even though Arsenal only finished 5th they were promoted above Barnsley and Wolves and at the expense of Tottenham who were relegated. It is rumoured that their chairman Sir Henry Norris was linked to some dubious backroom deals
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Yeah and the season we finished bottom of the First Division (as it was then), 1914-15, with a full scale war on, WHL was requisitioned for the war effort so we had to play all our 'home' games at ... Highbury. On top of that, Spurs were hit more than most* by the number of players joining up, so you'd have thought that after the war such noble sacrifices for the country might have counted for something.

*Bob Goodwin, Tottenham Hotspur: a complete record, p25
 
Spur of the moment said:
Yeah and the season we finished bottom of the First Division (as it was then), 1914-15, with a full scale war on, WHL was requisitioned for the war effort so we had to play all our 'home' games at ... Highbury. On top of that, Spurs were hit more than most* by the number of players joining up, so you'd have thought that after the war such noble sacrifices for the country might have counted for something.

*Bob Goodwin, Tottenham Hotspur: a complete record, p25
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Well, our rivals added white to their kit (the arms) as they respected us do much.

Always fun to tell goons that - they never seem to know their history
 
The teams that would be relegated should always stay up. Why isn't a proper rule made for this by FIFA for all divisions both male and female?

Signed.
 
Jordinho said:
Doncaster Rovers Belles will appeal against the Football Association's decision to demote them from the FA Women's Super League top tier in 2014.

The club has been a mainstay in the top flight for 22 years, in the newly-formed FA WSL since 2011 and the women's Premier League since 1991.

But next season they will be replaced by Emirates Marketing Project Ladies.

"To say we are disappointed might be the understatement of the year," Rovers chairman Alan Smart told BBC Sport.

"We've had support from all over the world and people are angry and bemused at the decision.

"But we are built on a wider fabric than one big benefactor. Doncaster Rovers Belles are a massive community club. We are made of strong stuff and we will fight on."

As one of the founding members of the national women's league, Doncaster have twice won the league and FA Cup double and were synonymous as women's football grew in the early 1990s.

But from next season the summer league will expand to two divisions, with Emirates Marketing Project joining seven other teams in FA WSL 1.

Having finished second from bottom in the first two WSL seasons, Doncaster will drop down a division to FA WSL 2 and compete against nine other sides.

The FA made its decision via an independent panel where clubs were assessed on their financial sustainability, where factors such as management, marketing and the quality of their coaching staff and facilities were considered.

Doncaster discovered the news after one game of this season, with boss John Buckley calling the situation "farcical".

The decision to split the league into two tiers, with relegation and promotion between both, is part of the FA's five-year plan to make women's football the second most-played sport in the country behind men's football.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22573491

Basically, they've been forced to drop into a new 2nd Division because City Ladies have more money.

Petition here: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/doncasterbelles
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Couldn't care less. The woman's game has no place as it stands, trying to imitate the men's game.

Get your kit off and let the lingerie league begin!! No butch rug munchers allowed.

Lingerie league
Lingerie league
Lingerie league.....

West ham united becomes wet clam united

And so on....
 
Arsenal's general manager Vic Akers said: "Donny have the support of all the league's current clubs.

"I've spoken to all seven and we all feel what the FA has done is unjust - in my opinion it's morally scandalous."

The Women's Super League (WSL), which is run by the FA, will expand to two divisions from next season, with newcomers Emirates Marketing Project Ladies joining seven other teams in FA WSL 1.

Having finished second from bottom in the first two WSL seasons, Doncaster will drop down a division to FA WSL 2 and compete against nine other sides.

But Akers, who along with Birmingham City chairman Steve Shipway represents the clubs on the WSL committee, said: "When they made their announcement, Donny had played only one match of the [current] season.

"To relegate them after 90 minutes is a joke - it's kicking them out.

"If you're talking about relegation then you should also talk about promotion, and Emirates Marketing Project didn't win the Premier League [the level below the WSL], they finished fourth.

"Sunderland won it for the third year in a row and yet they'll be in the WSL's second division next year. It seems to me it's more about money than football."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22694564
 
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