Ken Tone

An excellent summary Chapel End Charlie. Thanks for the work you must have put into it. As to polegategavin's questions about how we managed financially at the Dell in the premiership:- a) Did we ? Transfer profits were necessary even then. b) Vast sums from TV subsidise all premiership teams. Gates receipts are a minor part of the income of many. c) The rate of player wage inflation is hugely above inflation for us poor mortals. Even inthe short time we've been out of the premiership, never mind since the days of the Dell, what was a premiership wage in our day is now 'peanuts'. Look at the top 4 and now Man city. It is a different world there now, not just a different league. £30+million for players who in a few years could leave for nothing on a Bosman. The sooner the big , internationally owned teams, bugger off to form a european, or even world, super league the better. That might give normal league clubs like the bulk of the premiership and those in the CCC a chance to win our domestic league without them skewing it. Abramovitch was the worse thing to happen to modern football in england IMO... and now we have QPR, City etc, as well as the Arsenals and Liverpools etc. K.

Of course it's close. It's Friday tomorrow. K.