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you may wish to listen to todays Podcast, which is an interview with Sports Minister Stuart Andrew. The Price of Football can be found on Twitter here : @POF_POD or follow the link below. If you aren't familiar with the broad brush rationale for the Football Governance Bill, and some of the...

A potential chance to see a team promoted to the top flight at Deepdale. Just not them. I wonder whether it has ever happened before?

Now all the EPL clubs have submitted accounts for 22/23, the overall figures (courtesy of Maguire) are interesting : revenue £6.1 billion (up 11%) operating losses : £1.23 billion (up 44%) player purchases : £3.0 billion (up 57%) player sales : £0.98 billion (up 17 %) transfer debt: £3.0...

Blackpool paid £395, 345 in agent fees in this period, according to information published by the FA. Only five clubs in League One - Barnsley, Derby, Fleetwood, Reading and Wigan - spent more. Meanwhile, the EPL, which is currently lobbying hard against having to pay around £10m (or about...

Is it me, or has it been especially bad this year, because of weather, mainly? Halifax are playing their next two home games at Accrington because of the state of their pitch. And Truro's calendar for this week saw/sees them playing Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday again.

Listening to Knappers in recent weeks, it has been striking how long he has felt that this has been a bridge too far for them this season. Are they absolutely gone though? Fifth bottom is going to be no less than 41 points this season, and even that requires Port Vale to more or less lose out...

A couple of interesting facts for you : UEFA get more tickets (26,600) than either of the clubs (25,000) ticket prices range from £60 to £610 Remember these next time they are boasting about their efforts to make the sport more accessible ..........

Hislop was on fire tonight. I hope that sets the tone for the entire series.

When people debate the issue of the English football pyramid, it's often said that the threat is overstated - even deliberately exaggerated. I don't believe that, but it is not an an unreasonable theory when you consider that we've not lost a club at the higher end of the pyramid in quite a...

..... for 22/23 are out. Some highlights : Wages 92% of turnover staff severances £9.5m pre-tax losses £89m borrowings £341m Historic losses are £550m at the end of the accounting period and both the accounts and audit reports highlight "material uncertainty" about the club's ability to...

Over five weeks notice ; are they feeling ill?

This article is not an easy read, but it accurately describes a failure on an epic scale. And a really sad one, too, if you are at all romantic about the great names in English football. https://theesk.org/2024/03/14/the-crisis-created-by-moshiri-deepens-is-administration-an-option/

They could be promoted on Saturday. Would that be some kind of record? The relegation struggle in that Division is epic this season.

Sky are reporting that the much vaunted "New Deal" that the EPL were supposedly about to offer the EFL has now been shelved, as the EPL clubs could not agree a package that 14 of them could sign up to. This process has now been going on for nearly three years, and not only is there no sign of...

We had a Mayoral by-election in Lewisham yesterday. As expected Labour won comfortably, but turnout was just 20.7%. This means that our new Mayor won the backing of just over 10% of the total electorate, and the total cost of the exercise was estimated to be £635,000. Two of the candidates...

Two points immediately. Another two suspended pending any further financial breach by the end of this season. Owner fined again - but not disqualified

..... tells me that Jacob Rees-Mogg is today speaking at a "Popular Conservatives" event. I think satire may finally be dead.

It's remarkable : that a club can lose £21m on turnover of £18m.... .... and spend 131% of turnover on wages (themselves UP 86%) it would be worse had they not earned a net £7m from transfers but they still lost on average 396k every week Step forward Hull City, 2022/23.

It's forty nine years today since the greatest goal in televised history. :)

I see this is being heard between today and Friday, with a decision expected within a fortnight or so. What do we think the outcome will be? If I were Mr. Masters I would be desperately hoping that they get their punishment reduced significantly. But I think he's intent on short-term political...