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What happens if an EPL team goes bust?

  • 31-12-2008 2:41pm
    #1
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    What happens if an EPL team goes bust mid-season?

    Are the results against them removed?

    Do the remaining games become 3-0 walkovers for the opposition?

    Which is fairer?

    Say "Bust Team A" had beaten Team X and lost to Team Y, doesn't Team Y gain in this situation?


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  • #2
    Xavi6
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    Could it actually happen mid season?


  • #3
    UnitedIrishman
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    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Could it actually happen mid season?

    Doubt it would, I'd imagine the league would do what they did up in Scotland with Gretna (think it was them) and helped fund the team until the end of the season before they were dissolved.


  • #4
    eZe^
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    Platini and Blatter will have orgasms.


  • #5
    astrofool
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    All results have to be void surely to be fair (though would this include cards picked up in those matches also? :)).

    It's not a desirable situation, and unavoidable unless the teams sign some sort of indemnity at the start of the season declaring they have the funds to pay the players.


  • #6
    redout
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    Did it not happen a team in Scotland last season ?


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  • #7
    Insect Overlord
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    redout wrote: »
    Did it not happen a team in Scotland last season ?
    UnitedIrishman wrote: »
    Doubt it would, I'd imagine the league would do what they did up in Scotland with Gretna (think it was them) and helped fund the team until the end of the season before they were dissolved.

    Read the thread ;)

    :)


  • #8
    Guy:Incognito
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    Des wrote: »
    What happens if an EPL team goes bust mid-season?

    We get first refusal on Robinho.


  • #9
    Draupnir
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    Stekelly wrote: »
    We get first refusal on Robinho.

    :D This happens in Junior Soccer a good bit and usually the results depend on the stage of the season, sometimes it voids the results and sometimes it goes to 3-0 walkovers. It is a very harsh way for teams to get ridden rock solid sometimes


  • #10
    Zebra3
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    Des wrote: »
    What happens if an EPL team goes bust mid-season?

    LoI fans gloat? ;)


  • #11
    stovelid
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    If two clubs go bust simultaneously:

    Sky will call it Ford Super Meltdown Sunday.

    Sky will insist that one club admits the receivers at 12; the other club at 4.

    Gray and Tyler will do a live commentary outside the grounds as weeping, topless fans, stunned kitmen, and the receivers arrive.


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  • #12
    tony1kenobi
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    Des wrote: »
    What happens if an EPL team goes bust mid-season?

    Also what happens to us? If it's my team do I go and support another team or just start watching a new sport?

    I'm all worried now.

    Oh it's alright...just remembered I don't support West Ham.


  • #13
    Zebra3
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    stovelid wrote: »
    If two clubs go bust simultaneously:

    Sky will call it Ford Super Meltdown Sunday.

    Sky will insist that one club admits the receivers at 12; the other club at 4.

    Gray and Tyler will do a live commentary outside the grounds as weeping, topless fans, stunned kitmen, and the receivers arrive.

    With analysis from Jamie Redknapp:"The fans'll be disappointed with that".


  • #14
    dsmythy
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    I think it's fairer than the results are voided which involved said busted team. Whether one team beat them and the other lost wouldn't mean anything as the league then would exist as if the other team never was.


  • #15
    anonymous_joe
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    It would be almost impossible for a club to go bankrupt midseason.

    If a club has unsustainable losses, then a fire sale at Christmas will greatly reduce wages - the primary outlay - as well as reducing debt directly.

    Far more likely is for a club to sell all it's players and get relegated and keep plumetting. (Plummet...?)

    Eventually, if they cannot begin to make a profit, the club would go into administration and possibly just get liquidated.

    But anyway, teh transfer window means it should be impossible to go bankrupt.


  • #16
    Mitch Connor
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    anonymous_joe wrote: »
    It would be almost impossible for a club to go bankrupt midseason.

    If a club has unsustainable losses, then a fire sale at Christmas will greatly reduce wages - the primary outlay - as well as reducing debt directly.

    Far more likely is for a club to sell all it's players and get relegated and keep plumetting. (Plummet...?)

    Eventually, if they cannot begin to make a profit, the club would go into administration and possibly just get liquidated.

    But anyway, teh transfer window means it should be impossible to go bankrupt.

    I would imagine the transfer window would make it more possible - not less. Things could look ok'ish in january, but something could go seriously wrong in Feb/Mar, and the club would be unable to sell anyone. If there was no transfer window, they could sell whenever they needed too.


  • #17
    Pigman II
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    It's already happened. Remember Dublin City folded in 2006? They had at that point played 17 games of the 33 game campaign. All results against them were wiped and the league season finished on 30 games.


  • #18
    _blank_
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    Dublin City weren't an EPL team.

    So, anything the FAI did is harldy a precedent.

    I'm sure the FA/Premier League have their own rules.


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