Jackie Broon

For me they're in some ways worse than the big six. At least the big six are clubs with proper ambition and support. Those are clubs that but for their geographical location being attractive to players would be languishing in league one or below, while clubs in the north and midlands with proper premier league level support can't get a foothold in the PL.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that really, and the PL didn't actually go down that route. I think Man City would be happy for the PL to just duplicate UEFA's rules, they said something along those lines in their evidence in the APT case.

Value of assets and multiples of profit or turnover like any other buisiness would be. In terms of assets the world record fee for a womens team player is 900k and I don't and 20x turnover is a crazy value.

I don't think that means such transactions are excluded from the fair market value rules. Any transaction with associated parties or over £1m has to be assessed for fair market value.

It's more the issue of the PL not enforcing the rules in a fair and balanced way that's an issue. They are able to sell assets to other companies they own, fine, as you say, the rules allow that. But, the sale was clearly miles above fair market value, the rules if properly enforced can prevent that. The same goes for the management contract that allegedly lets them keep getting the profits from the hotel they sold. The PL seems to use the fair market value rules to restrict us, reducing the value of the Sela deal and possibly ASM's sale and who knows what else, yet just lets Chelsea get away with deals that patently aren't at fair market value.

PIF have billions invested in Clearlake, which is the majority owner of Chelsea.

Personally, I don't like that there is a group of clubs with tiny support that are successful mostly due to being located in places that are desirable for players to live, which have pushed out well supported northern clubs. I don't think they're actually plucky underdogs.

Torn between watching the parade from Haymarket/Civic Centre area or around the Great North Road up by the moor. Thinking that everywhere will be packed but there's a bit more space around Haymarket. Any early indications where's best?

It's not green belt. That and some other dodgy terminology indicates he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about from a planning perspective.

Maybe it could have been seen as counting chickens and tempting fate, but it really should have all been planned for beforehand.

The club itself is actually a freeman, maybe a herd could be a potential PSR income stream?

They obviously thought that £0.5m would tip the balance

Isak rejects Newcastle scarf at 5:20. Worrying.

It really looks like they missed out and we dodged a bullet on both of them.