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I worded that clumsily. I wasn't trying to say the penalties were harsh, only that they certainly should not be less harsh than they are now and potentially might be toughened. You are right that meaningful enforcement is a big problem. QPR have twice now broken the rules to get promoted to the...

Thanks. I had read your earlier post, although that didn't include any estimate that perhaps up to 10 million was "non-football". Having looked at an analysis of all the Championship clubs for the 2015-16 season, Brighton's pre-tax loss of 25.9m was the second largest, behind Middlesbrough's 32...

Thanks for the reply. You may well be staying within the rules, for the reasons you give. I haven't studied Brighton's accounts. I was going on that headline loss figure of £30m. On the face of it, if that was a purely footballing loss, as it were, that would seem to make it hard to stay within...

I am not making an envious or antagonistic point here. It is just that I take an interest in foorball finance. If Brighton, having made a loss of £30m in the 2015-16 season, made any kind of substantial loss last season, getting promoted, then by my reckoning (this may not be right, of course)...

Hughton was not hounded out of Norwich City by the fans. Some fans wanted him out, and said so very forcibly, so, but I was never one of those. I stayed silent on the issue. Hughton was sacked by the directors, who very much know their own minds, because they thought he wouldn't get the points...

You would know better than I how relevant is the comparison with Poyet; and whether Hughton is managing Brighton under the same kind of circumstances. I would imagine Hughton feels with you this season, as with us last, that a fight against relegation necessitates unchangingly cautious tactics...

It seems if Hughton, in a relegation fight, is carrying on his ultra-cautious policy, particularly away from home. In similar fashion to his record with us last season, in his 17 league games in charge not once, home or away, have Brighton come from behind to draw, let alone win. The closest to...

Firstly, what an excellent forum. About much more than just football! As to why so many Norwich City fans are not very complimentary about Hughton, It is certainly not because we feel we have any kind of right to be in the Premier League. Most of us are as realistic about our place in the...