Jerry Yates has today rejoined his former club Blackpool on a season-long loan, returning to Bloomfield Road for the remainder of the current season with the best wishes of all at Kenilworth Road.
Be careful what you wsh for: the average @SkyBetChamp club made an £18m operating loss, vs. a £7.5m loss in @SkyBetLeagueOne. Only one club – Luton Town Football Club, banking parachute payments for the first time – posted an operating profit. 👇
Luton Town Football Club would like to place on record its sincere thanks to a number of staff who have recently departed Kenilworth Road, recognising their dedication and service to the club.
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@FootballLeagueW are reporting that Player Recruitment Manager Yousuf Sajjad is set to leave the club shortly as part of the ongoing reshuffle of backroom staff.
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Anyone with any knowledge of English football history will know that it is ridiculous for Southampton’s chief executive, Phil Parsons, to claim that their expulsion from the Championship play-offs is a bigger punishment than the 30-point deduction imposed on Luton Town in 2008 which led to relegation and almost throttled the life out of the club. Absolutely no comparison and completely weakens Southampton’s attempted argument that being thrown out of the play-offs is “manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game”.
There is some good stuff in Parsons’ statement: accepting culpability for Spygate, apologising to those clubs they spied on and apologising to their fans “whose extraordinary loyalty and support this season deserved better from the club”. Well said. But… the rules changed since Leeds United’s “similar offence” in 2019, there is no right to the £200m (it’s not a fine), and to play the whataboutery game and make the comparison with the Hatters is, fittingly, mad. Southampton’s reputation is certainly damaged but at least their very existence is not at risk. #SaintsFC #LTFC
"We believe the financial consequence of yesterday's ruling makes it, by a very considerable distance, the largest penalty ever imposed on an English football club."
Wembley Gate of ~£2m is the only financial consequence suffered.
Give your head a wobble.
Ben White clearly made an innocent mistake when walking across the Atletico Madrid crest. He's not showing a lack of respect. He’s caught up in the emotion of the occasion. Simeone father and especially son were unimpressed… #AFC 1/2
The best thing about the forthcoming World Cup is that it will tell us what 75% of people involved in football and football infrastructure would love to do with football supporters if only they could get away with it.