Nice piece on the Beeb about Jamie Cureton : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjwnwdg42j0o

Egad, Sky want to give us more money when we really rather need it. What bastards. The facility fee for EFL televised matches is the square root of bugger all. The EFL justify this by saying they need this number of televised games to get a decent fee from Sky across the season, and it's that money...

This could as easily live in "Clubs in Crisis" The North Stand of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough ground has been closed by the city council amid safety concerns about its structural integrity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy544e09qpo

Sutekh So another season is upon us and it’s the first one the club has had for a long time without the threat of scoring any goals...

Sadly, cfy...

I think part of the problem may be that the overall standard of goalkeeping in the women's game is pretty poor - so players never really have to develop penalty-taking skills to any great standard in order to be successful with penalties. But when they come up against 'keepers at the top clubs/count...

Speaking about the news, Chief Executive Matt Hancock said: "We're really pleased to be able to confirm this ticket offer in plenty of time, ahead of the start of our League One season.

So that's what he's doing now...

Yep - and the speed of passing, the movement and the tactical awareness of both teams (but especially the Spanish) was outstanding - and noticeably improving every year. Probably significant that the four semi-finalists are the four countries with the best-financed domestic leagues in Europe, so the...

Royal Rother Gotta feel sorry for Falk. To save 4 out of 7 pens and still go out is a bit

Yep, especially as Hampton didn't do nearly as much - three of the Swedes missed completely rather than requiring saves.

I believe the Farnham owner has just sold his business for millions so Kayne want on the "Wouldn't it be nice if you had the same initiative as us and give season tickets away to anyone who brings donations down for their local food bank" Then after outlining what he had planned for Botto...

Shackling ourselves to either the "no transfer fees" or the "spend like Wrexham" model is short-sighted, dogmatic and pointless, because both these are tools available to us when we're team-building, and a blended approach is surely better. So, of course, we want to develop as ma...

I suspect the after-effects of this tournament will scupper that, but we'll see. Doubt it, given they buy near enough a whole team every week. There is that. :lol: Two ways to look at it. Will the lack of a summer break mean that the players are knackered when the season starts, or will this just b...

Absolutely not dissing women's football, but one of the biggest differences I've noticed is that women don't seem to be able to clear the ball as effectively and as far as the men do. So that when a team is under pressure and wins possession they often fail to reach the half-way line, and freqently ...

No SPL but one level down - but the odious little gobshite Billy Davies gets his first job in football for about a decade as "Technical Head Coach" at Morton.

Your wage bill is the main determinate of the quality of your squad in L1, not transfer budget. Sheffield Wednesday had the 4th lowest wage in the Championship in 23/24 season - £22.3 million . When the owner runs out of readies as hasn't hit the big time payout. The disintegration of the club star...

Standard tickets for the semi-final between Chelsea and Fluminense reduced to $13.40 on Saturday - down from $473.90 three days ago.

“Undisclosed” transfer fees Most annoying and serves no purpose for the ‘good of the game’ just tell us how much you tw4ts. Transfer fees are getting so sophisticated and metric-based (number of appearances, number of international call-ups, goals scored etc etc) that it's rare that it only ever is...

Royals and Racers Dave Kitson is the new manager of Maidenhead Utd. Alan Devonshire left last week.

I thought Kitson was managing Maidenhead women.

Brum Royal ... as a lot of the issues he runs into is down to coaches/players thinking they know the rules when they don't, or intepret them incorrectly.

They could solve a lot of that problem by making it compulsory for anyone commentating or summarising on TV to also have some form of referee badge...

I think it's great. A nod to our history. But white shorts would work better. The effect of the pattern is to lose to the vibrancy of the blue in the shirt - so the shorts look like they are a different shade. Agree that the shade of blue on the shirt looks different to the colour of the shorts/soc...

This. This. This. Of course they should. But that's the whole point. They haven't. There's no granularity, no exemptions, no special cases, no taking individual circumstances into account - just a set, inflexible number you must attend. Just because it isn't spelt out in any announcement doesn't me...