1. Clubs relegated from the Premier League to the Championship may accept 100% of the Parachute Payment on offer, but start the new season on -10 points.
2. Clubs relegated from the Premier League to the Championship may accept 50% of the Parachute Payment on offer, but start the new season on...
If we were to get promoted to the Premier League any time in the next 1 - 2 seasons, what do you believe the value of the club would be, given the infrastructure in place / on-stream, TV revenues, potential parachute payments, player contracts etc?
£150m? £200m? More - or significantly less?
After a slow start for team GB, and wrangles about empty seats etc, the Olympics just seem to have just got better and better, day by day by day.
I'll be the first to admit that I was an Olympic sceptic before they started, even to the point where I said I probably wouldn't even bother...
With the new season just around the corner, how confident are you that Azure have learned the lessons of 2011/12?
Broadly, the problems seemed to fall into 5(ish) categories:
1. A lack of adequately trained and motivated front-line staff.
2. A lack of supervision in the kiosks to spot and...
Just got in from work and had a look for it but it seems to to have fallen foul of the 'dark arts.' What happened? Is it locked in a holdall in the bath?
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Wow.
Fabrice Muamba was visited by Wayne Rooney at the London Chest Hospital over the weekend. He was able to form simple, semi-coherent sentences using short words and flash cards and managed a soft boiled-egg and soldiers virtually unaided by medical staff.
Doctors refused to comment on Mr...
Huge respect and thanks to the soldiers, sailors, air crew and merchant men who sailed to the South Atlantic and did their duty.
Muhammed i'm hard Bruce Lee, and all your brothers in arms, I salute you and will never forget what you did.
In July the Olympic torch will pass through the village where I live, on a Saturday lunchtime, about 50 yards from my house. Which is all mildly exciting and I'll take the kids to the end of the road, clutching mini Union Jacks, to have a look.
But I found out earlier tonight that once it has...
If you could be Tony Bloom...just for one day, what NON-FOOTBALL decision would you make?
Erect a statue of Dick Knight & Martin Perry shaking hands outside the stadium?
Get rid of cheerleaders before the game?
Kick Azure into touch once and for all?
Appoint a fans representative to the board...
Not me - but then I don't have one.
However, recent research from Ofcom states that 60% of teenagers and 37% of adults admit to being highly addicted to their smartphones, checking them almost constantly. Is this you?
From the BBC website today:
A slogan used by a furniture store for nearly a decade has been branded offensive by an advertising watchdog. The Northampton-based firm uses its own name in ads and on vehicles to claim its prices are "Sofa King Low".
Police investigated complaints in 2004 and no...
It's approaching the time I bought a new suit or two for those occasions when a gentleman wishes to dress more formally.
I'm thinking of something at the darker / more sombre end of the colour spectrum (charcoal grey / dark blue / black), but what about the other details that are so easy to get...