Quote Disco="Disco"Looks like we'll play [itheir[/i academy, anyway..
TBH I don't see what all the outrage is about. These players were playing for them perfectly legally in NL1, their only crime was to want to spend xmas with their families. Even then IIRC they were checked and allowed back in to play... so what's changed now?
I appreciate it's not the populist bandwagon view given that everyone in this poxy country seems to live their lives according to Daily Mail scaremongering, but frankly if anything stinks it's these new immigration laws.'"
Unfortunately, that's where the doubt appears to come in
Quote Disco="Crusaders website"
The investigation found discrepancies in the visa applications of the six players in seasons prior to 2009.
“Celtic Crusaders have co-operated fully with the UK Border Agency’s investigation and we will abide by their findings,” said Crusaders’ Chief Executive Mike Turner.'"
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Quote Disco="tigerman10"ink there is a much bigger point to all this, all the players that are named in the first post were in the promotion winning team last year,'"
What promotion winning team? There was no promotion. Crusaders, like us and everybody else, are in SL because of a franchise application – not because of what they did in the 2008 GF.