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I think football in this country is permanently broken. Had the Premier League somehow restricted salaries our top league might still be vaguely competitive.

No competition? In the 22 seasons of the Premier League there have only been 5 winners, of which Man Utd have won 13 (Arsenal 3, Chelsea 3, City 2, Blackburn 1). Since 1998 only 5 sides have finished in the Top 2 places. Contrast that with the NFL - in that same 22-year timespan there have...

Wembley is one of the things that differentiates international football from the treadmill of domestic and European football. Is a player more or less likely to retire from the England set-up if we stop playing at Wembley and start playing at St. James's Park and Villa Park? Right now, I...

This situation is farcicial. The FA have built a stadium to host the national team at a vastly inflated price that they can't afford, then they get ready to offer a key tenancy to a rival sport while the national team "goes pikey" and hits the road. Where is the strategy in this thinking...