CB Fry

Well we shall see won't we. I haven't said you're making it up, but I will happily maintain that the dogs dinner of a football competition you seem to think is going to happen will not happen. It's a classic horse-designed-by-committee idea which thinks it is going to make everyone happy but won't make anybody happy. Wolfsberg vs River Plate? Not sure most people would open the curtains to watch that in the back garden. Personally I think you are mistaking some football club big business brinkmanship with a viable workable idea. See you in five years. There might be an adapted European comp, and their might be some nods to Global tournaments hand in hand with the Premier League, but there won't be much and there won't be some all encompassing Formula One with shinpads that you think is coming.

That'll do me. The biggest clubs buggering off to some UberLeague to leave the rest of us in a league with Leeds and Derby and Sheffield Wednesday and West Ham and Leicester and Palace and QPR. I could very happily live with that all day long.

12th and the final like Fulham would do me.

You're on the corporate list then.

Thanks Jason.

If Dodd is such a brilliant coach why can't he get a better job than putting cones out at a College?

No doubt this points to a very successful new direction for them.

You have a gigantic misunderstanding of what the likes of Coca-Cola do. They'll sponsor and partner up with successful propositions that drive their brand awareness/equity but they aren't about to start demanding that football clubs or competitions or administrators create leagues for them. There's plenty of opportunities for Coke to get their brand out there and they'll take the opportunities as they arrive. And of course Watford v Swansea isn't particularly interesting but all leagues have ballast and filler and Watford v Swansea is ballast that is logistically easy to deliver and is part of the very successful proposition that is making billions around the world. Shanghai Athletic vs Seoul United is neither of those things. As well as being logistically complicated, there's nothing to suggest that fixture has any appeal in the Premier League's core markets. Plus as I mentioned before I don't understand why Manchester United would sign up to a load of rigmarole of playing Seoul for a league fixture: logistical nightmare, delivers a product of questionable quality and very questionable global appeal and enriches a football club they really don't need to enrich. You're asking Manchester United to schlep around the globe playing league fixtures purely to make other parasite clubs rich. You might live in a fantasy land where Coca Cola will be telling MUFC that they have to do this but sorry they will not get involved. Ditto Barcelona - lord knows why you think they're about to drop their current perfectly workable and profitable arrangement to play league matches in Sydney. Coca Cola will not be forcing this all to happen. They are too busy running a global soft drink multinational to give a monkeys. We shall see indeed.

I think we're a home draw against Swansea away from people planning a protest march or flying a plane over the stadium.

Don't tell me - cousin, or just old school friend?

Maybe we should actually try and make the knockout stage.

Spectacular drivel.

It's a disgrace that the greatest youth coach world football has ever known, Jason Dodd is now plying his trade at, well, at, um, at err, effing nowhere. Must be that every other club in the world just couldn't cope with his supreme talent.

Looks like you're preparing yourself to move seamlessly from moaning about terrible our current owners are to moaning about how terrible our new owners are.

Is the correct answer. We've qualified for the group stages only for people to fanny arse about whining about squad rotation? Give me strength. Go for it, go for it and go for it some more.

I'll tell you what never happened. Me going anywhere near your protest website.

I remember the picture of you proudly holding up the receipt of the red shirt you scuttled off down the club shop to buy.

Please all red kit please all red kit please all red kit.

Kind of destroys the old argument that it is the Remain side talking the country down doesn't it? Liam Fox has been deliciously put down by various people through the course of the day who have, you know, actually had a real job.

Fair enough Charlie.

You're living in cloud cuckoo land if you seriously think VVD is going to be here for at least four years. Ditto Forster - if, say, Arsenal come in for him to be their number one next summer, he's gone. There's no evidence we only sell our players when they have two years left. I've given you a hatful of examples already. Accept it. We've done well on contracts this summer but all it definitely does is buy us one more season regardless of the contract length.

Not like Shane Long to miss a golden opportunity.

Not like Clasie to come off after an hour.

Lovely.

I've not said anything about roots or culture or traditions "as you and I understand it" - you're not reading what I've said at all. The killer, winning product is the Premier League. It's a successful TV product that is being exported around the globe. Even the Champions League isn't as successful as the Premier League as an exported TV product. Like Star Wars or Top Gear or Beyoncé it's an global entertainment product that works very well as it is. People in Beijing want to watch United v Arsenal and people in Chicago want to watch United v Arsenal but do people in Chicago want to watch United v Beijing and do people in Beijing want to watch Arsenal v Chicago. Just like Hollywood don't make movies with, say, Johnny Depp and two Chinese actors because Chinese people would be "dreaming to see that". And with such a compelling and profitable proposition I don't know why Manchester United would throw that away to then enrich Shanghai Rovers, LA Galaxy and Sydney Wildcats. They don't need to let them in to feed off their lucrative brand without actually adding any value. The Premier League are savvy enough to work out a way to maintain their dominant position without making other clubs rich or spreading out their earnings. A series of global touring tournaments I can see, satellite clubs (like New York City already is) also likely, but there's nothing I can see that will stop the Premier League remaining in control of their destiny. Certainly nothing suggests a global league of any significance in the next five years if the Prem have anything to do with it. Nothing to do with ropey old "traditions" everything to do with cold, hard cash.