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Post by Good Golly I'm Olly Thu 16 May 2013, 6:06 pm

Could you imagine a re-formed premier league without an Everton, or an Arsenal ?

Well, it's happened in womans' football. The Doncaster Belles, who have been in the female top flight for 22 years, have been removed from the top tier of the reformed womens football league structure - being replaced by a Man City team who have only ever played in the second division.

http://popularstand.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/the-belles-toll-on-the-fas-relegation-of-the-doncaster-belles/

"...it is not for football that the Belles have been removed from the top flight. In the first two seasons of the Super League they have not finished bottom, instead Liverpool have grasped the wooden spoon on each occasion. They have not been taken from the top flight due to facilities as in the Keepmoat Stadium, of which they are fully-fledged co-tenants, they boast the best regular home ground in the league. And they have not been kicked out due to a lack of support, because whilst the Belles crowds could be higher, they have not been the lowest in the league, and they’ve certainly not been the quietest. Instead, they have been demoted and removed simply because the name doesn’t fit, and the pounds in their bank account couldn’t match the pound signs rolling around the eyeballs of those at the FA who make these decisions.
The new Super League set-up is full of inexplicable non-reasoning to the extent that is arguable the Belles are not even the hardest hit. (There is no place for Leeds in either division despite the fact they remain in with a shot at the Premier League title, whilst Lincoln have been allowed to completely rebrand themselves as Notts County and retain their top flight status despite abandoning the city which has backed them for the last decade). But come next season the Belles will be the most notable absence from the top-flight table; people will look at the Women’s Super League standings and think “What happened to Doncaster?” And you can’t simply reply “oh, they had a bad year and were relegated,” because they didn’t. Instead they were simply not wanted. Shafted and scratched out by an FA who have made it abundantly clear they care more about finance and ‘partners’ than the people and the teams who did more than they ever could to establish the women’s game in this country in the first place."

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Post by Good Golly I'm Olly Fri 17 May 2013, 12:22 am

The FA really are incompetant fools
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