If it hadn't bin fer ...(Part 23 zillion and 1)

[PhilM]

At least this one's not our fault - yet.

 

Everton 'disgusted' with Uefa as protest is ignored

 

 

Tony Leighton

Monday October 15, 2007

The Guardian

 

Beset by off-field problems for which they blame Uefa, Everton look set to end their Women's Cup second-round tournament in Belgium with the disappointment of failing to reach the quarter-finals in the club's first season of European football.

 

That is in stark contrast to the holders Arsenal, who are through to the last eight for the sixth time in as many attempts after comfortably winning the first two of their three games in the four-team tournament they are hosting in Hertfordshire. Everton have lost their opening two games - both 2-1 to stoppage-time goals - against the host side Rapide Wezemaal and the German champions, FFC Frankfurt. In order to progress they must tomorrow beat the Icelandic team Valur Reykjavik by at least four goals while hoping that Frankfurt beat Wezemaal.

 

 

That mighty task is the latest in a series of obstacles which the manager, Mo Marley, says have been placed in the way of her team. "We had to play in fog and under floodlights that weren't the best in our first game," said the former England captain. "I'm not making that an excuse for losing, but I'm disgusted with Uefa for what followed. The other two teams in the group, who had played their first game earlier in the day, refused to play their second matches under the floodlights so at short notice Uefa brought the times forward and that affected us badly.

 

"We had far less preparation time than Frankfurt and then we weren't provided with a pre-match meal, so we had to go into a game against one of the best teams in the world at a real disadvantage. We protested about the situation but Uefa disregarded us, yet when a big club like Frankfurt shouts 'boo' people jump. Isn't that a bit like the men's game?"

[Fallen Angel]

We protested about the situation but Uefa disregarded us, yet when a big club like Frankfurt shouts 'boo' people jump. Isn't that a bit like the men's game?"

 

That would imply that they and their male equivilent are a 'small club' which can't be right as Moyesie, Kenright and now Stubbsie et al have said they are not.

[Randy Marsh]

ifithadnabinfer god, there would be no such thing as fog.

Redshite Bastard

[Harry Squatter]

Even Valur Reykjavik are bigger than them