Top billing was granted to the always interesting David Conn's piece in The Guardian regarding Premier League finances. It's a sorry state of affairs, which David has seemingly been telling us about for decades. The headline is that "the Premier League is carrying 56% of European football's debt", based on two year old figures. Paul mentioned a plethora of Premier League clubs with special focus on Portsmouth and West Ham, whose combined debt based upon press figures is about £170m. This meant "UEFA wouldn't grant either a European licence" apparently. He didn't mention the Premier Leagues' most indebted club, Manchester United, running at a confirmed £716m, until prompted by Mike Wedderburn. An easy fact to forget I'm sure.
Apart from that not much going on, apart from a few non-stories regarding Fabio Capello and his disciplinary ethos and Jose Mourihno's paranoia. Not even a mention of TEAM SKY this morning. I'll look out for the surf report, if anyone's interested...
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