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Given the FA are involved, expect a lucrative sponsorship deal between one of the beneficiary charities and one of the miscreant clubs, e.g. "Nottingham Forest sign £5million 'sponsorship' deal with St John's Ambulance"

If the choice were restricted purely to football-related charities the lucky beneficiaries will be using crocodile skin football boots, ivory goalposts, silk nets and the ref will have a gold-plated whistle.

The FA have to try and make FFP work but have they really thought this charity thing through? Even the clubs adhering to FFP will still be losing money year in year out, and if applied properly the fines will be potentially huge. How can football afford to see this massive outflow of cash from...

Fines go to charity. So the more you cheat the more lives you save? Not sure about that as a mixed message.