Neymar has had one of the most successful careers of any modern player, what’re you talking about?

People like Ravel Morrison and Michael Johnson are really ‘what if’ players, and going further back Duncan Edwards

Lincoln City’s FA Cup run was pretty special and much more of a giant killing than some of these

We’d been in the National League - 5th tier of English football for about 3 years and on our way to the quarter finals beat:

• Oldham from league 1
• Ipswich from the championship
• Brighton from the Championship
• Burnley from the Premier league

Compared to things like Celtic beating Barca and Greece winning Euro 04 I think this is more impressive because Lincoln just weren’t playing against teams of the quality of Burnley every week or even every year - some of our regular opponents were semi pro

Maybe it was just a throwaway comment at a time of frustration, rather than something she meant to be taken literally?

Anyone talking about anything like draft systems for young players and heavier distribution of sponsorship revenue towards lower ranked teams is completely ignoring the fact that promotion and relegation make those systems completely unworkable

American sports - as this is the model people seem to like here - effectively operate as closed shops which we don’t want in football, the amount of turnover in clubs in the EPL just in the last 5-10 years shows that

Not really. He shouldn’t be allowed to officiate in the UAE in the first place but because there’s no rule against it you have to also let him ref any EPL game too

Any other outcome and there’s a heavy implication that either PGMOL or the premier league don’t trust the impartiality of their officials and thats a Pandora’s box that nobody wants opening