[Statesideowl]

I can't deny that, it does keep the season alive and stops it being sewn up after xmas. You're spot on there.

I wasn't trying to suggest the "old days" were necessarily better. Just that the continuing trend is moving towards the negative, and not nearing some sort of age of enlightenment in the Football World. Using the Playoffs probably wasn't the best example as it wasn't really the point I was trying to get across.

That cronyism and crooks are part and parcel of the game that shouldn't be normalised. We're slowly becoming de-sensitised IMO.

That's all I was trying to get at in my not so erudite way

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Somewhat interesting background story on Kieran Lee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footbal...o-way.html