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Can't see the EFL tangling with EPL icons and a multibillionaire over 4th tier football. Far more likely to roll over and have their tummy tickled.

God knows what you'd have made of the real black-and-white stripes Forest Green before they were horrendously doped and became Ecotricity Marketing FC. When we spent time In the Conference In the early-mid noughties we took 600 or so to their old ground which IIRC had two Portaloos next to the...

What is so different about a club enhancing their performance by injecting the outside agent of money completely unrelated to any ability in their chosen field, in a scenario where their rivals risk catastrophic damage by following suit and an athlete enhancing their performance by injecting the...

Lim is much wealthier than the like of West Ham and Burnley's owners - in fact Beckham probably isn't far off Burnley's owners

He's worth 2.5 billion on his own, without the Farce Of 92. They could definitely get to at least the Championship. With the adoration of the media in their favour lots of other financial opportunities will come their way.

Plymouth are very far from minted.

Plymouth have only spent 13 seasons in the 2nd tier in the last fifty years. Don't believe their hype.

Depends what you mean by "strong". It's never been above mid-table as far as I'm aware and often much lower.

As I say, A number of them left.

A number of the 200 fans left in disgust at the hijacking of the club - abandonment of their badge, ditching the historic tangerine kit in favour of an MUFC clone (after the hypocrite Neville slagged Vincent Tan for simply changing Cardiff's shirt colour) and so on. They haven't so much grown...

Bournemouth spent over 200% in their last Championship season. How did they get around the rules?

"Welcome to the Peter Lim/Farce of 92 Billionaire Property Investments Stadium. Thanks to the £20m naming rights deal we look forward to the manager obliterating his rivals financial resources by "spending the transfer budget wisely" ( © BTSport Salford-Lovers Inc ) "

Bournemouth did it by accumulating eye-watering debt of £32m in order to allow them a wages to turnover ratio considerably over 200% the year they got promoted. Of course that's peanuts for a modern EPL club, so Demin's gamble was handsomely rewarded, but what if it had failed? Would he have...

Nobody is saying that your League position should depend on your fanbase - just that there should be fair competition. For nearly 100 years the Football League put in place a number of regulations to level the playing field - e.g. maximum wage, revenue sharing (away clubs receiving a share of...

No I'd hate it and so would many other fans who understand that there's more to a football club than league position. IIRC Wimbledon fans voted down a takeover offer by Darragh MacAnthony before he bought Peterborough. And accepting something distasteful or unjust simply because it's the way of...

I liken it to paying Prince a million quid a week to join your shit garage band and then crowing about what a great musician you are, or buying your doctoral thesis off the internet. The Bradley Dack comment was a half-joke, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them signing lower-level...

Clubs often overspend simply because the egregious modern model of massive financial doping has cascaded down the leagues and forced most clubs into a financial arms race that is often extremely risky, rather than risk telling fans that the alternative is accepting an ever-lower glass ceiling...

No chance unfortunately. I seem to recall they poached a couple of players who were offered L1 contracts when they were in Conference North. Peter Lim alone is worth 2.5 billion - more than the owners of some EPL clubs. We've never seen anything like this at our level. If it's allowed to...

It's nice to dream, but I'm consoling myself that we'll probably only be forced to suffer the Farce of 92 circus for one season, assuming the £20m naming rights for the PeterLim/Farce Of 92 Property Developments Stadium gets them off the hook with FFP and Bradley Dack accepts their offer of £90k...

Can't find it, but there was a Salford fan claiming they can't be plastics because one of them traveled from Belgium. Not as if it was a Wembley final and the biggest game in their history, oh no.