Is It Right To Bend The Rules For Cash-Strapped Club?

Last updated : 19 February 2010 By Footy Mad - Editor

And ... as we all know ... Portsmouth could be without a football club, if the law goes agauinst them in coming weeks.

The Premiership are desperate to see them fulfil their 2009/10 programme, and many have sympathies with Pompey ... but NOT Burnley boss Brian Laws, who claims it would be "ridiculous" to allow relegation rivals to sell players outside the transfer window.

Has he a point?

Well I cannot see what advantage Portsmouth would get from it. They are SELLING not BUYING. So what is the problem?

Brian Laws: "We all work within rules and regulations.

"That is the way the Football League or Premier League has worked for hundreds of years.

"Why should we have to change that for one particular club who are finding it very difficult with their finances?

"They should be looking in a mirror to find the answer. They got themselves into it, (they should) get themselves out of it.

"I would hate to think the Premier League would allow them such a ridiculous thing beyond the transfer window.

"Allowing them to get a player out of the door, get some money and finances in, and then he goes and scores a goal against us that could be the goal that takes us down - that's ridiculous.

"I would think 100 per cent of the Premier League would be saying the same, so I don't think they would get much support from the Premier League clubs."