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22 September 2005 : Mr Cheat Up In Court
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Cheating Boston United manager Steve Evans is still being dogged by the scandal that saw him banned from all football for twenty months and fined £8,000 on a series of charges relating to illegal payments and attempting to pervert the course of an F.A. investigation by bribing a witness. Ex-Boston United chairman Pat Malkinson was banned for twelve months and fined £7,000 for his part in the affair. The case related to Boston's promotion on goal difference at the expense of Dagenhan & Redbridge in the 2001-02 season. In a disgraceful bottling of its duty to protect the game from cheats the F.A. merely fined Boston United £100,000 and deducted them four points from the following season, allowing their ill-gotten promotion to stand.
Immediately the ban on Evans ended the man who had in the meantime taken over as chairman at York Street, Jon Sotnick, sacked the manager in situ and reappointed Evans. This decision has come back to haunt him as Evans has now been charged with fraud. Four others with former and/or present connections to the club have also been charged : ex-club chairman and owner Pat Malkinson, general manager John Blackwell, former book-keeper Ian Lee and former accountant Brian James.
The hearing concerning allegations of sustained years of defrauding the Inland Revenue dating back as far as 1997, when Boston were in the Northern Premier League, will open on Friday at 10.00 a.m. at Bow Street Magistrates Court or the Old Bailey (depending on which press story one prefers) in London.
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22 September 2005 : Goodbye And Good Riddance
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Bristol Rovers has relieved Ian Atkins of his managerial responsibilities at the club. Speaking on Radio Bristol a club director revealed that Atkins had been informed on Wednesday that his contract would not be renewed at the end of the season, and then told after training today that he was no longer First Team Manager.
Atkins, a man whose reputation as a football manager comes almost entirely through his own self-publicity and selectivity of memory, has never endeared himself to Yeovil fans, dating back to the F.A. Cup meeting with his then club Northampton Town in 1998, which The Glovers won 2-0. But his stock hit an all time low when his behaviour in the October 19th 2004 match between Bristol Rovers and Yeovil Town at the Memorial Stadium led to three separate charges being levied against him by the Football Association. Atkins spent several weeks spreading disinformation and insinuations through the local media whilst trumpeting that he would fight the charges against him to the bitter end. He got the hearing delayed, supposedly to further prepare his defence, and at the end of all this............ pleaded guilty. Even then he couldn't leave it alone, asserting in the Bristol Evening Post that he couldn't comment further because the police were pursuing further inquiries. Oddly only a few days before an unidentified source - who wouldn't have been Atkins, oh no not at all - had claimed the police were investigating individuals from Yeovil Town FC and considering charges. This was of course completely untrue as the police subsequently made clear : they were investigating no one and nothing. A mysterious illness - chicken flu perhaps - struck Atkins down for the return at Huish Park, and he did not show up.
Before Atkins gets to work on promoting his own version of his achievements at Bristol Rovers we'd better get his real stats at The Gas on record : won 31%, lost 31%, drawn 38%.
So let's er, randomly choose a good manager for comparison : won 52%, lost 27%, drawn 21%. And not a whinging whining excuse along the way. Give Gary a ring, Ian, and ask how it should be done.
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22 September 2005 : Johnson dismisses move stories as 'speculation'
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Yet again Glovers boss Gary Johnson is being linked to various managerial jobs elsewhere in the football world and yet again both he and the club are reporting that no official approach has been received from any other football club and that any stories in the media linking him with other clubs are nothing but speculation.
Today the Bristol Evening Post, the Western Daily Press and HTV Sport have all linked Gary with the vacant managerial position at League One rivals Bristol City, variously claiming that he's been interviewed for the post, is on a shortlist of five, and is favourite to get the job. The truth is out there, but not, it would seem, in any of the above claims. Speaking to today's Western Gazette, Gary said: "There is always speculation and this is what this is. Until the (Yeovil) board of directors receive an official approach from another club then there is nothing in any of it. The other thing to remember is that I signed a new three-year contract in April and a compensation package would also have to be agreed between Yeovil and the other club before anything else could happen."
Chairman John Fry, also speaking to the Gazette, added: "To be honest I get these sorts of things all the time now so I do not take any notice of them. We are very dependant on Gary but we also know that he will always be very much in the eyes of other clubs who are looking for a manager. Gary is under contract and is doing an excellent job but things change so we will just have to wait and see, and then react to whatever comes."
Further from that in an audio interview on the club's official site this afternoon Gary again emphasises that up until now (or 4pm this afternoon to be precise) that no approach for his services has been received from any other club, therefore there is no decision for either him or the club to make.
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22 September 2005 : Liam's not appealing
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Glovers defender Liam Fontaine, dismissed for a professional foul by referee Mike Russell in Tuesday night's defeat at the hands of Millwall in the 2nd round of the Carling Cup, has decided not to appeal against the red card.
The video recording of the incident in question isn't clear enough to justify an appeal according to today's Western Daily Press and with the match referee refusing to review his decision on the night it's been decided that the risk of the appeals committee increasing any ban on the grounds of frivolity is too great. Liam will therefore miss this Saturday's home match against Port Vale.
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22 September 2005 : Colin Lee's Verdict On The Carling Cup Game
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Millwall manager Colin Lee admitted he had been given a scare as the Championship side narrowly squeezed their way past Yeovil Town in the Carling Cup this week.
Speaking immediately after the match, Lee said: "That was a typical cup game in the end wasn't it? You've got to give credit to Yeovil. They slung everything at us and I must admit it was a bit scary in the last few minutes of the game. But we managed to hang on. It's very difficult to play so many games in such a short space of time especially three games away from home - Wolves, Sheffield Wednesday and then tonight. Obviously we didn't have the three boys who are on loan, although that could be a good thing in terms of team selection for Saturday as next week we play Saturday, Tuesday and Friday. We are being tested - that's for sure - and the boys that played in all three games you'd have to give a lot of credit to."
Lee also added that Yeovil's comeback showed that there was plenty of spirit within the club: "I was a bit disappointed we didn't keep a clean sheet. We've only kept one clean sheet this season. But you have to take into account that Yeovil have got nothing to lose at that stage of the game. They were going to get balls in. To be fair they did put us under pressure. I think the football went out the window, and it was a case of get the ball in there, get us under pressure, try and get corners and free kicks and it worked for them - there's no doubt about that. I said to Gary at the end that his team have got a big heart about them and they don't know when they are beaten. I think that's full credit to the manager, the players and everyone associated with his football club."
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22 September 2005 : Reserves lose to Swindon second-string
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Yeovil Town Reserves lost 2-1 to their Swindon Town counterparts in a keenly contested and fast-paced Combination League game at Huish Park last night.
The Glovers, fielding their usual combination of squad members, youth team players and a trialist - in this case central midfielder Anton Robinson of Millwall - began the match brightly with Arron Davies and Luciano Alvarez testing the Swindon keeper's reflexes, but as the half wore on the visitors - playing most of the side that featured in their 2-1 League One defeat at Bournemouth last Saturday - began to look more threatening, eventually taking the lead with literally the last kick of the first half when a Kyle Lapham cross was converted from close range by Jamie Cureton. The Glovers equalised on 58 minutes, Efe Sodje heading home from Arron Davies's corner; but a minute later and Swindon were back in front Christian Roberts following up to tap in from a few feet after Steve Collis did well to parry a long-range shot. Matt Harrold had the ball in the back of the net on 70 minutes but the goal was disallowed - presumably the referee knew why, no-one else did. The game degenerated slightly thereafter with some increasingly bizarre referring decisions livening up the small crowd.
Final score: Yeovil Town Reserves 1 - 2 Swindon Town Reserves.
Yeovil team:
1. Stephen Collis, 2. Adam Lockwood, 3. Gavin McCallum, 4. Richard Cullingford, 16. Efe Sodje, 6. Anton Robinson, 7. Paul Terry, 8. Arron Davies, 11. Luciano Alvarez, 12. Craig Allcock, 14. Matt Harrold
Subs:
5. Sam Croft, 13. Danny Barker, 15. Matt Concliffe, 17. Ben Wood, 20. Steve Thompson
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