James Rayner

Husband, Father, Project Manager, still trying to play a bit of football, WBA STH and shirt collector! X

[Pro:Direct Soccer @ProD_Soccer]

That's right, Reebok are back 🔥

The iconic brand return to pitch with a modern Sidewinder, built around grip, structure and striking power.

The boot will be available at Pro:Direct Soccer before anywhere else, from 24th June.

[The Lower Tiers @LowerTiers]

EFL Clubs Who Have Won The Most Matches In Top Flight History 👏⬆️

[England Cricket @englandcricket]

Goodnight, England fans 🫡

[England's Barmy Army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎺 @TheBarmyArmy]

Cricket is a simple sport.

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 Venice’s football team has just been promoted to Italy’s top soccer league ⚽️

The celebrations are absolutely insane

Only in Italy 🇮🇹!

[Venezia FC @VeneziaFC_EN]

VeneziA.
The return.

#ArancioNeroVerde 🟠⚫🟢

[Sarah Coombes for West Bromwich @SarahCoombesWB]

Few things have united my constituents like the anger felt over the West Bromwich Albion points deduction.

I’ve written to the @EFL on behalf of fans to seek answers. #WBA

[Worcester Wolves @UW_Wolves]

One. More. Sleep.

See you tomorrow at the Play Off Final #WolfPack

#NBL2526 #PlayOffs #PlayOffFinal #WolvesOnThree

[National League on DAZN @DAZN_NationalLg]

OH MY WORD 🤯🤯🤯🤯

YORK HAVE EQUALISED IN THE 102ND MINUTE TO WIN PROMOTION 😱

Watch LIVE NOW at https://t.co/17IGNhwWu5 📺

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

So a club can sell its hotel to itself, sell its women’s team to itself, but West Brom are punished, they believe, for legitimate “in-kind” donations to the Albion Foundation, its charity partner that saves lives. Albion also believe the alleged PSR breach is “less than £2m”

[Daniel Hewitt @DanielHewittITV]

So Albion are deducted points:

-for making charitable donations to its community foundation

-based on a RETROSPECTIVE adjustment to its accounts AFTER the EFL changed the rules

-without being told how much they exceeded the limit

-with no published judgement

No words. #wba

[West Bromwich Albion @WBA]

West Bromwich Albion Football Club has released the below statement following publication of an EFL Club Financial Review Panel (CFRP) decision. 👇

[Andy Jones @Andyjoneswrites]

#wba fined 2pts for £2m overspend, much of which was charity work which the EL retrospectively punished.

Chelsea guilty of 36 separate illegal payments of £48m for players like Hazard, Willian, Matic, Luiz which helped them win trophies.
No points deduction or transfer ban.

[Dave Chall @theboychalloner]

Nice to wake up on a Sunday morning with the W

Delighted for Mozza but shout out to Boaz,Damia Matt Gill

AND ONE OF OUR OWN @LeighDowning10

When you talk about journeys. This lad has earned his stripes chuffed for him

Done some job this back room staff 💙💙💙

@WBA

[Orlando Magic @OrlandoMagic]

PLAYOFFS BOUND

[David Piesing @DavidPiesing63]

@RobDorsettSky @JPercyTelegraph @GoldbergRadio @BuzagloToBalis @AliJones9 Hang on - the club had to borrow money BECAUSE Lai had literally stolen (I use that term without hesitation) money from the club with the Wisdom Smart “loan” that was made unlawfully by his stooge (then sole director of the club), Ke Xu, in blatant breach of his fiduciary duty to only act in the best interests of the company (being the football club) which that “loan” made to Wisdom Smart very clearly was not!

I sent several emails to Ke Xu about this (I have copies), pointing out his blatant breach of fiduciary duty and demanding to know as a shareholder what he was doing to enforce repayment from Wisdom Smart. Every email was totally ignored. I also sent emails about it to the club’s auditors, Azets (I still have copies) who were obviously very interested. Crucially I sent an email to Rick Parry (Chairman) and Trevor Birch (Chief Executive Officer) of the EFL on 20th January 2023 about Lai’s “loan”, which led to two video calls with their “very interested” colleagues Mark Rowan (Chief Communications Officer) and Nick Craig (Chief Operating Officer) in May 2023 about all the shenanigans. I made them aware of facts regarding the Chinese ultimate beneficial ownership of the club which neither they nor the Premier League (who originally approved Lai as “fit and proper”) knew nothing about. Because of those illegal acts by Xu, as Lai’s puppet, money unlawfully disappeared from the club, leaving it days away from going into administration.

If the club may potentially now suffer a points deduction some 3 years later directly because of the club having no option but to pay interest on expensive MSD loans taken out by Lai to literally keep the club in existence because he was unable to repay his own unlawful Wisdom Smart “loan”, then this would be a disgraceful gross injustice by the EFL and must be fully exposed and challenged. No sane person would deem that to a breach worthy of a points deduction. The EFL was made fully aware of the situation regarding that Wisdom Smart loan and if they cannot now locate their emails to refer to, I do still have them all.

The EFL has had an absolute stinker here on multiple fronts (as did the Premier League before them) and they need to recognise that and immediately dismiss any charge against the club.

[West Bromwich Albion @WBA]

On the road with an army of 7,500 Baggies behind us! 👊

𝗨𝗣 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗡𝗡𝗡𝗡𝗡𝗡! 🤩

[West Bromwich Albion @WBA]

BACK TO BACK LEAGUE WINS FOR THE ALBION! 🫶

[Joe Chapman @ChapmanJ92]

Two points from the last 42 available away from home, by the way. Indescribably bad #wba

[Worcestershire CCC @WorcsCCC]

𝙄𝙡 𝙁𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙤 🚨

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