Jackie Broon

There doesn't need to be contact for it to be a foul.

He made the most of it but I don't think he could've stayed on his feet, contact or not.

The only person listed as being in significant control of RB Sports and Media Ltd, owning 75% or more of the shares, is Jamie Reuben. Obviously his wealth comes from his involvement in the family business but he is clearly very wealthy in his own right. He, individually, has donated about £800,000 to the tory party.

If we're humouring it... It would be a massive statement of intent, and boost to commercial income. Having Bruno and Paqueta here might help with him settling and buying in.

That's not the case at all. Just about every ecology report I've read, and that's hundreds, includes a summary of reccomendatiins that is clear and easy for people who, like myself, are not ecology specialists to understand. The report very clearly says that further bat surveys are needed. The impression I get is that many developers/architects/agents, just pay for ecology reports etc. think they've ticked that box and either don't even bother to read them or do and submit them hoping the planners won't read them. Any pre-commencement conditions are almost certain to delay the start of works because they require another application for discharge of conditions to be made, which often can take longer than a planning application.

Along with Dummett he's the only first team player we currently have that would count towards the European home grown rule. So he's going to be an important part of our squad if/when we get into Europe.

Yes there are normally a couple of clubs that upset the applecart each season and a couple of the big 6 that underperform, but it's different clubs each season. There are no other clubs that have been able to consistently do that and so get access to the stratospheric sponsorship income that the big six get.

Spurs bridged the gap when it was still bridgeable, but it isn't any more... for anyone but a state like Saudi Arabia.

80% of sponsorship income for the entire PL is with the big 6. There's an absolutely massive drop-off in revenue between the big 6 and everyone else. For FFP revenue is everything, a club like Everton might have an owner who wants to throw money at them but without the revenue he can't and without the consistent success they can't make that step up in revenue, catch 22.

Update on the application: It all seemed to be going swimmingly, until yesterday when comments came in from the Council’s ecology and landscape officers. There is the potential for a bat roost within the buildings and surveys will need to be carried out to check for bats. The ecological impact assessment submitted by the architect actually recommends that the surveys are needed, but it seems that they haven’t been carried out and submitted with the application. That’s a frustratingly common oversight, I suspect most architects/agents don't actually read those reports before submitting them. There are also a couple of trees that will need to be removed to make way for the extensions but the architect has not submitted a tree survey, that will need to be done, submitted and assessed. Another frustratingly common oversight. There has also been Japanese Knotweed identified in the area of the extensions and further survey work and a remediation scheme will be needed for that, which will probably be conditioned but with a pre-commencement condition. Which will result in needing to make a discharge of conditions application before starting. Very unlikely they’re going to be able to start this summer now. If a bat roost is identified it isn't necessarily terminal to the application, but would at least delay things further if it would be disturbed, which would require a licence from Natural England.

They're paying for membership of the big 6 cartel. FFP is set up to prevent other clubs from catching up with the big 6 which inflates the value of those clubs and depresses the value of the others.

He's under 21 so he doesn't need to be registered in the squad to play.

I don't think he's in the first team squad, not on the club website anyway. If/when we get into Europe we could just stick u21 players in the 25 man squad to meet the quota, but that would be wasting squad places if they're not up to actually playing.

The rule is different for European football, we'll need to have at least 4 players in the squad that have spent three years with us between 15 and 21, incomings won't count towards that (other than Toney maybe). The only players in our current first team squad that meet the European homegrown rule are Dummett, Longstaff and Langley.

That's the effect of FFP, it makes the big 6 clubs incredibly valuable because they already have the revenue to be able to compete at the top of the table within the constraints of FFP. For clubs outside of the big 6 it's an unbridgeable gap, even multi-billionaires don't have the resources to get round FFP, only nation states do.

Ekitike and Raphinha, I think we'll be looking more at that type of wide forward player than out and out wingers.

I think they could do OK, they could also find themselves stuck in that division for 15-25 years like Leeds and Forest and many others have, and that's probably the more likely scenario given their financial position.

He's played his part and done well in the run-in and that has probably increased his sale value, I doubt he'll be here next season.

Yeah, Villa spent £91m in the summer and another £25m in January, plus Coutinho on loan, and finished three places below us. It's such a lazy and uninformed response.

76 points would be enough for top 4 in all but one PL seasons (13/14). It would have been enough to win the league in 96/97.

This was when they won the title last season. Imagine the scenes outside St. James' if/when we win it.

Such a flat performance and atmosphere for such a massive match for them, other than the spell after they scored, they just seemed to accept relegation.

And Leeds score!

The authorities really need to stamp down on pitch invading, we can't be worrying about players and managers being attacked. They should be making it abundantly clear that they will do all they can to identify everyone entering the pitch and ban them. If one person does it that's what happens, if a thousand do it seems they're just let off unless they headbutt someone.

I actually thought it was FIFA Just something about the way the players are moving.