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The two standouts must be how much Sunderland spunked on a team that was relegated and, in relative terms, how little Spurs spent on a team that finished in a CL place, having spent well under half that of any other qualifying club.

Whilst I share the same depressing opinion of football’s financial honesty, there have been several high profile cases where the authorities have gone for the very high earners such as Messi. I’m not sure that the old school world of brown envelopes would slip under the radar as it did in the...

It will never happen but I’d propose that the maximum wage a footballer could earn should be tied to that of, say a top surgeon working in the UK. On top of that a club could offer unlimited win bonuses for any player who played in a winning game. Draw and losing bonuses would also be banned...

The way the Premier League operates, there will never be enough money getting to the grass root level, whatever the tv companies pay.