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I think so, but I stand to be corrected. IIRC Barber came in during our second season at the Amex.

Yeah. I think if Barber had been around he'd have ensured that there were clauses in the contracts for shirt sponsorship and naming rights that triggered hefty increases in the event of promotion. By comparison Southampton earned £17m. Even Burnley managed £10m.

Surprised commercial income has only risen from £5.1m to £8.8m. I presumed promotion would trigger a significantly increased payment from American Express. Maybe this is a reflection of the fact their sponsorship pre-dates Barber. This is quite a poor figure for the PL and an area I am certain...

Worth pointing out that many PL clubs also have substantial cash balances, £1.6bn in total, according to this: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-boast-16bn-cash-12077017.

The £400m loan was only announced in May 2017. The most recent Spurs results are the 2016/17 accounts so the loan was only agreed towards the end of that period. They had only drawn on £152m of the £400m at that point. The next accounts will show a big increase in their debts and they will be in...

Councillor Lee Wares recently said this of the accident record at the junction. I think he owes logic an apology. "To put it into context, based on Labour’s own figures, over a five-year data period, there has been only one pedestrian casualty rated as severe – and no deaths. One casualty is...

From his Instagram account in Feb: "Delighted to have signed a new contract with Brighton & Hove Albion, looking forward to the next few years at the club". That suggests he's contracted for at least the next 3 seasons, so I expect he's signed until the end of the 2020/21 season. If that's the...

And there's more to his game than that. He's chipping in defensively too.

I do wonder how much of managers overlooking academy prospects in favour of big money signings is down to psychological biases rather than objective analysis. I'm sure there must be an element of favouring a signing you made as a way of confirming your own good judgement. Some managers...

Depends how you look at it. It's probably worth considering Chelsea's academy as a side business unrelated to the first team. It may have not been the original intention, but that's pretty much what it is now. Recent sales: Nathan Ake £20m, Ryan Bertrand £10m, Thorgan Hazard £5.6m, Patrick...

Maybe they coped by catching the train: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/12/24/when-the-trains-ran-on-christmas-day/ On Christmas Day, the land falls silent as the trains, tubes and buses largely shut-down for a well-earned break. However, when the railways were younger, the motor car...

Well I never! That was my sister-in-law you spoke to, not my wife incidentally. She said he's the first person to ever come back from London with more money than he arrived there with.

Looks good! Was there some sort of promotion going on in London for this film yesterday? My wife told me that her nephew won £20 doing keepy uppies and this film was mentioned. I am not sure of the exact details though.

"watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way" The word "must" is missing, so it's not law I believe, which would make securing a conviction against anyone ignoring this advice difficult. Also, there is...

I forgot about this and only caught the second half. I thought England looked in almost total control. Most U-21 games this campaign have been terrible to watch with no discernible evidence of a coherent playing style under Boothroyd. But fair play, they have been easier on the eye in the last 2...

Another team to be proud of is the England U-17s this season. They beat Brazil tonight 3-1 and Albion's Haydon Roberts started. In fact he has featured in all 6 of England's games this season and notched a goal against Russia in a 3-0 win on Sunday. Their next competitive games will be in March...

I admire your unwavering commitment to the idea that a transport policy that prioritises the least efficient mode of transport might not be the most sensible solution in urban areas. You are up against some pretty entrenched opinions from people who cannot see it the same way as you. I gave up...

Also worth pointing out that works out to approximately a rather less scary 0.7% annual increase over that 21 year period. The population of the UK barely increased at all in the 1970s and 80s yet house building was still required, presumably to meet the demand resulting from the growing trend...

The worst pedestrian crossings are the two stage ones IMO. There is one near where we live and I use it when walking the children to school. You press the button. Sometimes it changes immediately, but most of the time you have to wait around 30 seconds (absolutely no idea why), by which time the...

I do wonder whether the clock tower junction might be suitable for a "Pedestrian scramble" aka "Barnes dance". The current configuration really does penalise the high proportion of pedestrians wanting to cross diagonally as they currently need to wait for two cycles of the lights to do so. Also...