Verbal

Evidently, yes. Three prem teams are excluded, but six Championship clubs are in.

So this presumably means the end of the reserve team structure in the Prem (which was dying anyway), and gives our academy players the chance to play more competitive games (with over-age players) more regularly. Cant be bad.

I think trousers means something slightly different by 'insignificant' - that humanity is too small a component of the planet to affect global climate. In that, he is demonstrably (and I use that word advisedly) wrong.

Yes, Mr Icke. Of course it is.

Fair if you ignore the science, yes.

Your usual well-referenced post, full of peer-reviewed evidence that you're not talking utter ******** again.

In the film business there's a contract clause known as 'favoured nations', This means that you do not agree to terms any less favourable than other named individuals. So long as players hold to the same football creditor terms as others making the same claim, they should be both protected (relatively speaking) and can argue that they've have done their bit.

But that, surely, is up to the players, right? I can imagine that some deferments will be waived, but why on earth would you agree to a 100% wipeout?

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I suspect that even if all the players leave, they will keep their football creditors' claims on the table, so that the parachute payments do not quite so easily fall into the hands of Chainrai.

Anyway...

RonManager is not ITK.

Are you doing this to confuse Minty?

Where WAS your tractor? They were probably concerned because of the strict parking regs.

You're now quoting the loonies at the bottom of newspaper articles?

I do believe my quoted piece was about government statistics showing that we remain in recession for a third quarter.

So what's Harry going to say? Hello, Kanu, I just rubbished you in the national media. Anything I can do to persuade you to give up a couple of mill?

Just to kick you when you're down, trousers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/25/shock-gdp-fall-deepens-double-dip-recession It could hardly get much worse than a 50-year low, but no doubt will, given Osborne's rank incompetence.

Ordinarily not, but by the time this argument is finished, 17 pages down the line, even you will want to admit that it is.

Somehow, that works both in and out of context.

Yes - or rather, I hope that's the case.

Is that right though? I was under the impression the FL had said that Chainrai could not carry his secured position in its entirety over to newco. In which case, we've yet to hear whether he's even still in the running. Has he made any statement at all since the FL's announcement?

So Beech blames the players alone for 'putting them in this mess'. Good grief.

Bad joke I admit.

An excellent point, well made.