Middlesbrough bottom of the table in football fairness index

Wimbledon came top, didn't they? What your need is some bike storage (imagine everyone turning up at the Riverside on a bike).
 
Football is a murky business, full of smoke and mirrors. We project lots of good things, were recently voted winners of the EFL diversity award for example. The club may not have signed up to the living wage foundation accreditation scheme. I know accreditation will cost money £720 for a 3 year period. Not much in the greater scheme of things, but they may be paying the living wage and saving £720 🤷‍♂️

As an aside, what is the living wage foundation director Katherine Chapman’s salary I wonder?
 
Without any breakdown of methodology or citing of sources that appears to be a set of made up numbers.

We "scored" zero on equality. Mmm-OK.

I would hope that any full time employees were paid the "living wage" but other than that. Meh...
 
The 0.00 on equality strikes me as they couldn't get the data/info they were using for us and the Mackems so have just put down 0 as default.

I'm sure there's plenty we could do better at (and Gibson is certainly no saint) but the whole thing just smacks of dodgy statistics based on very arbitrary parameters.

As has been covered further up on the thread, we never come out well on these things under "financial stability" or whatever because of the way Gibson runs the club.

But if your methodology ends up rating clubs breaching FFP, facing points deductions or transfer embargoes etc as more financially sound than clubs that aren't, I'd argue you might want to look at how you're calculating that before publishing and criticising clubs for how they're being run.
 
Not good to be bottom of any list but who exactly are Fair Game? As in they are independent sure but where do they draw their information from? When I asked the question last year they didn't have any formal communication with Football Supporters Association - recognised by all the football authorities and the government as the conduit/voice for football supporters. If you don't speak with the FSA then how can judge interaction with supporters?
JM14 said:
All this community club ***** we like to throw about and the multi millionaire owner won’t even pay employees a living wage. Really disappointing if true
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The football club paid a living wage to its staff during covid.
 
This is weird , they name their index 'fairness' yet you could easily argue there is only 1 dataset that is near the idea of fairness and that is the Equality column but it has the least variance of scores and the scores are of the lowest value so it's weighting in the oveall score is the least. The dominant (by a factor of 2 metric) is financial sustainablity and we know all about our loans which will never be called in and have neither been written off yet by our chairman. That's how he likes his financial reporting done . This is basically nothing more than Football club Top Trumps with arbitrary opinionated data.
 
MFC did get into trouble a few years ago for paying below minimum wage, but it was the stupidity of the HMRC rules rather than the club doing anything immoral.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Not good to be bottom of any list but who exactly are Fair Game? As in they are independent sure but where do they draw their information from? When I asked the question last year they didn't have any formal communication with Football Supporters Association - recognised by all the football authorities and the government as the conduit/voice for football supporters. If you don't speak with the FSA then how can judge interaction with supporters?

The football club paid a living wage to its staff during covid.
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Covid was 3 years ago, do they still pay the living wage now?
 
Hasn't the living or minimum wage thing come up b4 and the club then mentioned discounts they receive and rubbish like that.
 
JM14 said:
All this community club ***** we like to throw about and the multi millionaire owner won’t even pay employees a living wage. Really disappointing if true
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In fairness when did the club last claim to be a “community club”?
 
I’ve never been a Steve Gibson boot licker and this is the reason why. No one in 2023 should be paid minimum wage. Isn’t that the idea of capitalism? That eventually we’d all live in satisfaction? Instead, the tories have millions of people living in Victorian Standards. When clown Gibson voted for BoRiS JoHnSoN he died for me. It told me everything I needed to know about him.
 
festa5 said:
The 0.00 on equality strikes me as they couldn't get the data/info they were using for us and the Mackems so have just put down 0 as default.
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Perhaps because we lack the transparency which is a big part of many businesses these days then we're by default 0 ?

Transparency showing that you live by the values you espouse is as important as actually making claims about how you conduct your business.
 
Boro Devonport said:
I’ve never been a Steve Gibson boot licker and this is the reason why. No one in 2023 should be paid minimum wage. Isn’t that the idea of capitalism? That eventually we’d all live in satisfaction? Instead, the tories have millions of people living in Victorian Standards. When clown Gibson voted for BoRiS JoHnSoN he died for me. It told me everything I needed to know about him.
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I'm willing to bet all the money I have in the world that Gibson did not "vote for Boris Johnson"
 
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