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A combination of victim mentality and a tremendous ego would be my guess. How so? I'm genuinely curious as I obviously don't think it is at all but I'm more than willing to admit that I'm biased in that I can't stand him.

He really does, it's the FA's fault for cultivating a healthy business relationship with the bookies that's at fault, nothing to do with him ignoring their rules or anything. Obviously.

You mean you didn't read his statement, thoughtfully included above, thoroughly?! He placed something like 6 bets for his own team to lose but never when he was in the match squad, which presumably makes it ok in his head.

...surely not.

Presumably not whilst still employed in the game? If he were to retire then yeah, but whilst contracted to a club (I think he's still at Burnley?) then nope...

I'm fairly sure the FA can't ban someone from being a pundit in a studio, little bit outside their purview...especially if he just retires.

His statement seems to be along the lines of 'I admit I did it, I get why the FA have to be firm in their punishment but it's their fault not mine and I'm appealing'. Edit; The whole, stupidly long, thing (without the table at the end); 'The FA have announced I am banned from all football for...

Well, that's him done then. I'm sure he'll join Jenas in the 'pundit who was nowhere near as good as he thought he was' club soon enough.

Oh god the flashbacks. I saw this bumped and thought something had been announced. You teases.

I can't imagine a manager would have anything to do with the actual club finances (or at least the tax arrangements)...surely?

Poor bloody Stockdale. How the hell does that happen twice? In one half?!

Very sad news, that's no age to go.

I don't see a problem with it, if only because the alternative to constant growth is to just stagnate and effectively 'settle' for what we have, which seems worse.

It's probably already been said but isn't that exactly what a stalker would say?

Why not a half time recreation of 'Duel' from Gladiators? Get the Scottish ref down to adjudicate and have them whack each other with pugil sticks for a while. Maybe get Wolf involved?

Pretty sure Sky Sports showed the magical 'P' straight after the Huddersfield game. Admittedly, my memory is a little impaired for some reason...

I guess that puts me in the middle ground then, I've always known there to be a sponsor and badge on the front but anything other than that (on backs of shirts/on shorts) I think of as the 'continental' approach.

Really? I'm only (only?) 29 and that seems a very odd way to look at it, I was rather miffed when Barca started displaying a sponsor (even if it was Unicef), plain shirts are something special.

I can see us getting beaten fairly easily, with a number of players possibly still being 'under the weather'. Not that I can blame them to be fair.

Are there any others that aren't all that bothered by this? It's a reality of the modern game, sponsors are going to want to throw cash at us for at least a season, we'd be daft not to take it (despite it being a little unsightly).