Whitey Grandad

They have to be at Wembley to pay for its reconstruction. Ironic really, they build a new Wembley in order to increase its capacity and then they have to sell 17,500 seats to corporate leases in order to pay for it.

A home tie please Bob. Preferably the worst team left in it.

Is 'back-room blokes' a euphemism?

Amen to that.

They will always be fitter if they don't smoke.

Very promising. We could have saved £15m and a broken nose.

Minor lack of fitness? The effects of smoking on oxygen capacity are very noticeable. The carbon monoxide alone reduces the amount of available haemoglobin. At the top levels of sport every little percent helps.

That's ridiculous. It makes a mockery of the whole player ownership business.

They should get a room.

Worth every penny

There are only two ways this can go down. Either he leaves the club or he apologises profusely to Fonte and everybody else, promises that it's never going to happen again, blames himself entirely for this episode and knuckles down and plays the good guy for the rest of his contract. My money's on him leaving the club.

He's got a point, sort of. Arsenal have already played against him twice. Maybe clubs should only be able to sign players from a different league?

Too much concrete: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25862543

Ursus magnus est

This extra money to the banks is also one of the reasons that savings rates are so poor. The banks don't need to attract money from them.

Hmm, how long is his contract? I can't see this being sorted quickly.

At the replay?

They'll be miles away by now. Mine was gone within two hours.

Here you go, section 21: http://www.thefa.com/~/media/files/pdf/fa-competitions-1314/fa-cup/fa-cup-rules-2013-2014.ashx 'In all matches preceding the Semi-Finals, the Visiting Club shall have the right to claim up to 15% of all accommodation for which tickets are issued providing these tickets are in a fully segregated area, and subject to the following regulations: ' ...

The only possible explanation is that the Cortese affair has been rumbling on for over a year! If only he'd kept a few nibbles in his desk he might still be with us.

It was a fair question, fairly answered.

Have you got the page from the day when you and she, you know, ...?

If the Premier League are happy then how can it be called cheating?

There are obvious candidates but these are not indicative of most companies. I don't like the expression but a recession is seen as a chance to get 'rid of the dead wood'.

Don't hold your breath. One of the features of recessions is that companies use them as an opportunity for a clear out. Many will have been rattling along without the need to consider productivity or staffing levels but once things start to get tight then every little detail is examined for the possibility of savings. Many companies also need to rebuild their balance sheets.