Money Grabbing Bastards Special

Ever wondered who is going to pay for the FA's Wembley fiasco? Yes, it's us the fans.

Not content with ballsing up what should have been a simple piece of real estate redevelopment, the money grabbing gits at the FA Premier League wrote to fanzine web sites demanding money with menaces, saying that they will ask for sites carrying their "copyright" fixture list to be shut down if they didn't pay their licence fees.

Never mind that they are getting free publicity and that none of these sites are money making ventures, they assert that if they allowed it to go unchecked, then the commercial companies that do pay for it will lose out because people will no longer visit their sites. Absolute hogwash. Tell us of one site that relies on revenue from hits dependant on fans trying to find out when their next home game is and we'll show you a site that is going down the tubes faster than you can say Ken Bates.

In any case there are numerous holes in their arguments, but they're safe in the knowledge that fans are in no position to challenge them. The risk of losing in the lottery that is called the courts and having to pay their solicitors fees makes a mockery of anything that could be called Justice. It's unfortunately true, the law of the land is for the rich and powerful only, that's why we are determined to expose their greed despite their letters and email carrying threats if we publish them.

What you find on the following pages is Up The Arse!'s attempt to threaten the FA Premier League with exactly the same threats they made to fans. And do they not like it up 'em! It's not over yet, so stay tuned for more developments.

Thanks go to The Mirror, Radio 5, BBC Online, Private Eye, Bloomberg News, Soccernet, Club Call and others who have helped expose this disgraceful piece of bullying. And also to Jenny Cann for pointing out an example of their hypocrisy.

Finally, as reported by Bloomberg News:

"It would be difficult to see how the simple fact of one team playing another on a particular date can be bound by the law,"  said Roger Sinclair, a legal consultant specializing in intellectual property.

Next season's diary stays!