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Football creditors rule. Any other industry they'd just be classed as trade creditors.

More likely nick mementos. For the administrator it's all stuff that could potentially be sold to pay off creditors.

Agree entirely with this point. Having the football creditors rule exacerbates rash spending on transfers because they have a level of indemnity. I'm not sure how a governing bodies laws can supercede the laws of the land. Imagine if say the pork industry demanded that all suppliers of pigs...

Am I the only one who wished this thread had been titled Punt for Sky-Blue October?

Given his injury problems I guess you're advocating getting stuck into him early so he doesn't fancy it?

Good post. I feel with any potential holding company (which would ultimately be SISU owned and controlled) as well as receiving the lease/mortgage costs from the club I suspect an additional management fee would also be charged to the club on top of those already in place. As the club still...

I think a bit more is being spent in Birmingham than would be if we played in Coventry, because it feels more like a day out or away game. My neighbours are now going on the train to Brum and having something to eat and drink on the walk to/from the stadium. At the Ricoh they'd park up, watch...

If you chose just the level of the penalty area you're going to have huge gaps between the defence, midfield and attack. Which will either lead to a huge amount of space for midfield or players lumping it back and forth. Also if you chose the penalty area itself, couldn't a player stand on the...

It's still two players - it's called 'last man' but in reality it's assumed the GK will be behind the attacker. If for some reason the keeper has gone walkabout (say a last minute corner) the attacker would have to be behind two defenders in their half to be onside.

Exactly. Fans, including me at times, want the club to show ambition. We want to be signing decent players (or just signing players as many on here seem to get a bit narked if we go more than 10 days off season without signing someone). We want to be keeping our best ones. But then when the...

Is that based on Glicko? Or more likely vodka?

Maybe not, but it brings into focus the discrepancy between how much footballers are paid and average people by doing a direct comparison. Let's say someone like Hickman was on say £40-50k a year, it seems like a lot for what is the equivalent of the office junior . Say he's on £800-900 per week...

As I said it's the increase in channels/providers creating a bidding war and different services like streaming creating new packages for them to flog that are keeping the prices high. In terms of people actually watching it's saturated - everyone who wants to watch football is watching football...

If I was a Brazilian footballer I'd be called Diabetes and be very one-footed.

There's the VAR Bar at the stadium. They use the security cameras to check who's next to be served - make sure no-one's gained an unfair advantage pushing in front of the last man.

What about the second half? It'd be even more demoralising as they'd almost certainly play a much weakened team and even with their reserves and kids playing we'd take a battering.

While I'm on my soapbox yet again, I think it's about time we stopped taking footballers salaries in terms of £x per week. Obviously tens or even hundreds of thousands a week are still massive amounts, but it doesn't seem as much as it actually is. Let's talk footballer salaries like most normal...

That's the problem though isn't it. IMO the sensible thing to do is to bank a fair proportion of that money for the future and not take on massive financial risks and commitments, but relegation is pretty much assured within a season or two and then the fans and pundits are saying "they didn't...

He's gone! Gone back....to the future!