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Due to the following email I have removed the list of fixtures on the site, oh how real football fans are put first!:

Dear Sirs,

DataCo_NBCAD_12675

We write on behalf of the Football Data Co Limited which is the appointed
licensee of the FA Premier League, the Football League, the Scottish
Premier League and the Scottish Football League ("the Leagues") in respect
of the licensing of certain intellectual property rights of the Leagues,
including those in the fixture lists for this season August 2005 - May
2006 ("the Fixture Lists"), for use by third parties.

We have noticed that your website
http://www.sheff-utd.co.uk/0506/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=
is displaying Football Fixtures. In order to display the Fixture Lists you
must either obtain the necessary license from Football DataCo
([email protected]) or be an officially nominated fanzine for
your chosen club. If you are not nominated as the official club fanzine
and you do not wish to purchase a fixture license you can post a link to
your club’s official site.

Without nominated fanzine status or a license there is no provision for
any fixture to appear in advance of the match being played. However, if
there is an editorial preview of the next upcoming match in which the
fixture is mentioned then this is unlikely to be objected to, provided
this is done in a clearly editorial form. Mentioning more than one fixture
would not be accepted.

We thank you for your cooperation.

Yours sincerely,

Philip Stubbs

NetResult
A Division of Projector NetResult Ltd
Mulberry House,
583 Fulham Road,
London
UK
SW6 5UA
 

Just reading that again......

You can't mention more than a game in front?

Madness rules.......or little spotty men behind desks!

:eek:
 
What a load of crap! Haven't they got anything better to do down at the F.A?
 
Selby Blade said:
It's all balls, bet you have to pay for the licence!!
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it's not exactly cheap either ;)
 
Linz said:
When I get chance, all future fixtures will be on but in anagram form :)

Thanks to Silverfox for the idea and "UP YOURS" Football League :)

QUOTE]

Does that mean any fines will come my way???

:eek:
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I have a few suggestions for some anagrams

I NEEDED SLUT (A local Yorkshire rival)

A DEFENDED WISHES FLY (A very close local rival with a shit defence)

A MOTHS PUN TO (not so local south coast team with a backstabbing manager that left them)

I CULL THY (the worst place to live in england)

ICKY TOTES (from the pottery)

CHRONIC WITY (boxing day piss up game)
 
gezblade said:
I have a few suggestions for some anagrams

I NEEDED SLUT (A local Yorkshire rival)

A DEFENDED WISHES FLY (A very close local rival with a shit defence)

A MOTHS PUN TO (not so local south coast team with a backstabbing manager that left them)

I CULL THY (the worst place to live in england)

ICKY TOTES (from the pottery)

CHRONIC WITY (boxing day piss up game)
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Nice ones mate!

I Needed Slut is very appropriate!

:D
 
silverfox said:
Nice ones mate!

I Needed Slut is very appropriate!

:D
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Cheers

I love playing around with letters. From my real name I get 'regard, 'grader' and 'red rag' I like the last one and my username I came up with 'glazed be' and 'glaze bed'. Thinking of a few more for my usename.

Hehe, I get Sliver fox, Livers fox and lovers fix for you silverfox, i'll try for more later.
 
Ok racked my brain (plus with the aid of my brainy cousin) we came up with this one for Sheffield United 'I NEED DUFL FETISH'

HAHA Funny edit here: DEFIED ELFISH NUT My cousin sent me that one just now by text
 
gezblade said:
Ok racked my brain (plus with the aid of my brainy cousin) we came up with this one for Sheffield United 'I NEED DUFL FETISH'
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How about INDEED FUL FETISH.

:D
 
Haha some quality ones there Gez. I like what you have done with the fixture list on the site Foxy,very good:p
 
My alternative anagrams you may wish to consider (or not):
Mon 6th- Fart Wod.
Sat 11th- Play Ugly Mother
Tue 14th- Ring Ade (note to Warnock lol)
Sat 18th- "Why send feed", said elf
Sat 25th- Queer Gran Spankers (HAHAHAHA) (can't changed was mine anyway)

March

Fri 3rd- Rex anal weed car.
Sat 11th- Cry Convey Tit (needs leaving, no others)
Sat 18th- Tiny Rich Cow. (needs leaving)
Sat 25th- Toon shut pam

April

Sat 1st- Yeti Stock
Sat 8th- Hilly Cut. (cant think of anything else)
Sat 15th- Fat dry ficci
Tue 18th- Nude listed E
Sat 22nd- Lu wont not
Sun 30th- Pally cat races
 
Dear Martin Fox,

We have noticed the page
http://www.sheff-utd.co.uk/0506/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21
&Itemid=30 is still displaying fixtures. Even though the team names are
displaying in anagrams, the dates and times are correct. Please remove all
upcoming fixtures from your site immediately.

Regards,
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This is getting boring now....

Dear Neil Bharadva,

Further to your email sent 8 February 2006, I would like to put it to you that it's none of your business what Queer Gran Spankers get up to on the 25th February at three o'clock in the afternoon although if you wish to join them, I'm sure that they would be more than accommodating.

I suggest that if you wish to follow your line of argument, you persist in contacting every church fair, every theatre production and every Weight Watchers meeting which just happens to coincide with one of the Football League's matches as they are obviously contravening the copyright of the Football League fixtures by holding and publicising an event at the same time. In fact we won't be able to have a 15:00 on a Saturday anymore; we'll have to skip straight from 14:59 to 15:01!

We'll stop being facetious when you do Mr Variable Hand (anagram see? Go on, check it.)

Maybe you were just unhappy that we had the cheek to complain on the results page, the link of which you so kindly keep sending us. I suggest you tell the Football League that once we fans have paid for season tickets (£219 in the case of my poor NUS card holding self), cup tickets (only £20 this year), away tickets (£207 and still counting) and the endless monetary expense of travel, accommodation and other paraphernalia, two hundred quid more to publish some fixtures is a bit ridiculous. And no, the £1 option isn't an option in our case as the Administrator of the Sheffield United official site refuses to acknowledge any site other than his mistaken-ridden, dreadfully templated and advertisement-laden monstrosity.

You were fortunate we were feeling amicable enough to take down the fully formed fixtures, don't push your luck with the anagrams. Although may I say thank you for your use of the word “please” in the last email.

Regards.

PS: Nice to see you’ve been getting a good press anyway… http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,1671699,00.html
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The red bit is what I'm tempted to put, but I'm not going to :)

Moral of the story... Lindsay is gonna kick-ass as a solicitor :D
 
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