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I think it's harsh to lay this one at the club's door - there's no evidence to say that they didn't offer him a contract 3/6 months ago and he turned it down. I wouldn't blame him for wanting to leave - is a very good keeper and this level and deserves another shot at the PL. Might well be that...

I'd add as a positive that Dernbach may never play ODI/Twenty20 cricket for England again. I think that's a pretty harsh assessment of Broad - he's been nursing an injury through this tournament and has been OK (certainly no worse than anyone else in terms of the bowlers). Also his Test and ODI...

Could not disagree more, and I've been a (qualified) defender of Giles up until now. They have fielded abysmally, bowled poorly (apart from one game, on a tricky pitch, against an ASSOCIATE COUNTRY) and batted reasonably (again apart from one game, against an associate). Take out Hales one...

I'd imagine it would show up as the shareholder injecting capital - and there are limits to how much capital they are allowed to inject within the bounds of FFP (isn't it that, plus the permissible losses, that add up to the £8m figure that gets bandied about?).

I agree with you, Nibble, livingston seagull. It seems ridiculous... ...but the economist in me says actually that it's a great signalling device. Your dog is a major part of your life, you like dogs, they're a major topic of conversation in your house. You know that your potential partner...

In Cambridge the central shopping areas are closed off to cars. However there's a number of good park and ride systems, and there is on-street parking around the outskirts of the city starting around 1 mile from the city centre) available for those in the know, and there is a large multi-storey...

Fair enough. For what it's worth, I disagree with you. Death by drink driving is IMHO worse than many death by dangerous driving cases because there's some element of decision in it - the person has chosen to get behind the wheel of the car when not in a fit condition to do so. Of course some...

Surely you are on a wind up here? So someone that takes their eyes off the road for a split second while behind the wheel of a car and hits a pedestrian that steps out without looking should get the same sentence as someone that commits a pre-meditated shooting?

I cross one on my cycle to work and I get frustrated at just how much caution they show. The trains must be well over a mile away when the barrier comes down as I'm always waiting a good 90 seconds for the train once the barrier is down, seems a bit OTT - although of course I'd rather that than...

I've got friends that trot similar lines out as well, but I don't buy it. We're shit with him in the team, I struggle to believe we could be much shitter with him out of the team. Yes he's quite good at keeping possession in an unoffensive way but he's not mobile (so doesn't present great...

I liked this tweet from Sporting Intelligence yesterday - no idea how to embed it sorry! https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/441697546985951232 It's clear that QPR's strategy is to challenge the legitimacy of FFP, rather than in any way conform to it.

The fine is only for promoted teams. Teams that don't get promoted are hit with a transfer ban instead. The concession of fees going to charity rather than other clubs was made because the Premier League weren't happy with the idea of one of their members giving funds to paltry FL teams, which...

Bloody hell, I think you're pinning a hell of a lot of blame on an inexperienced coach that was at best 3rd-in-command. You can make the case that Sol was discriminated against, that might well be true. But I think, anecdotally at least, we've come to understand that Sol Campbell was quite an...

I'd argue that as a minority administration they don't have a (clear) mandate from the population. You'll have to excuse my lack of knowledge of B&H politics, but I also don't know what platform the Greens have been campaigning on - was it to maintain the existing service provision? If so, then...

I like the idea of having a referendum (either in Brighton or elsewhere) - it gives the council a pretty clear mandate then to either i) increase taxes as required to maintain services or ii) cut services to reflect the funding gap.

The cuts have (generally speaking) been achieved in precisely the manner that the central Tory government doesn't want - in that there has been a gradual reduction in the quality of all services provided by local authorities, rather than councils deciding on priorities and cutting altogether...

What counts as exorbitant? A 2% rise is in line with inflation, so in fact that's not a rise so much as a freeze. The picture is also clouded by the fact that central government have substantially cut local spending that is allocated centrally, and handed responsibility for these areas over to...

I think this is probably completely forlorn, but is anyone managing to use the Football League app (on Android) to listen to the commentary? It claims that live match commentary is available, but pressing it takes me to text commentary of the Hull game, which is useful. I'm sure I've never...

The debate (at least amongst those that actually know what they are talking about) isn't about the science, which, as has been reported ad infinitum, is almost universally accepted as solid, but more along Nibble's line of what can be done about it. The key issue is the speed at which the...

Not being rude to you, but that first excuse is bollocks, isn't it? If the concern was really about the redistribution it would be clubs like us, Burnley, etc. that would be complaining. I would have thought that the clubs facing penalties would much rather they went to charity than to making...