I was in Turin last year. It felt just like home - graffiti everywhere and a rail replacement bus that dropped you in the middle of nowhere so you could catch another bus!
Eye watering, spending their way to the top 4 it seems and getting away with it. They have rich owners to cover it, but sounds like they are on the edge of FFP etc:
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/aston-villa/2024/03/04/aston-villa-post-near-120million-loss-for-2022-23-season/
Yes, I’ve seen 1860 at Dortmund in the Bundesliga, their decline has been relatively recent.
Apart from those mentioned elsewhere could probably include Newcastle too. At a push Porto.
Garry Monk at last has a new job - the sleeping giants that are Cambridge United!
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ex-birmingham-city-leeds-united-28750762?int_source=nba
I got an A taken a year early thanks to Mr Ross, and my report that year said I had the makings of a Latin scholar. I don’t think I have ever studied or looked at it again since then which is probably a good thing as the job market for Latin scholars is still in the middle of a 2000 year long dip..
It reminds me of a mad day I had a few years ago. I had a dental appointment in London on a Saturday morning which I drove to. Then I had arranged to meet some relatives in Birmingham to go to see a match (Sunderland I think) before heading over to Coventry to catch the second half of a Wasps v...