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No, it was definitely Beasley, the bald Chelsea fan from the Midlands, a guy who used to love to make veiled references to how handy he was in a fight. He was egged on in his ranting by Paul Smith, a Spurs fan who looked like Dracula's less attractive brother and was clearly desperate to get...

You can become a registered user of The Times, which means they get your email address. But that allows you to access two articles each week. I've registered twice with two different email addresses. I like Michael Atherton's writing about cricket, so that's mainly what I've used my free access...

Or "raised human rights issues off-air", like someone on here posted that the ignorant fucking clown Simon Jordan claimed to have done after he and Jim White interviewed the guy a couple of weeks ago.

There's no requirement for arbitration to find some middle ground between the parties. Are people confusing it with mediation? It's perfectly common for an arbitral tribunal to come down fully on the side of one party. Arbitration is simply a form of alternative dispute resolution that avoids...

As someone says above, he really is a credit to the club. I remember reading a profile of him in one of the papers in the eighties that recorded some of the abuse he had to put up with, which was quite incredible. He was always so dignified in response, a characteristic he retained when I met...

I don't think so. I don't listen to every episode of the BM podcast but do tune in fairly regularly, and I haven't heard him on it for quite a while. I suspect it's because The Athletic now has its own City podcast entitled 'Why always us?', which is also available to non-subscribers. He's a...

Back in about 2013, I remember that City sold various IP rights to CFG for somewhere north of £20 million, which was reflected in the accounts as a one-off item and boosted the bottom line. The idea was that CFG would then collect an annual fee from the individual clubs in the group for a...

I agree with this. Txiki and the other directors are professionals, and it's their job to have a plan to execute if, for completely unforeseen reasons, we needed to recruit someone in Pep's place at any point before his contract ends. I'm sure they know who'd be likely to be available and who...

Thanks. That GBP 875 million is a very similar figure. Good spot. The idea of splitting football and other assets with a view to attracting different types of investors is an interesting one, too. As you say, we're all speculating at the moment, but they do seem likely to have exciting plans...

We know that Manchester City Limited, the holding company of MCFC Limited, has been transferred to Midco. So has MCWFC Limited, along with other UK companies such as City Football Image Rights Limited, City Football Investments Limited, City Football Marketing Limited, City Football Services...

So, these shares have been issued and allotted for no consideration, meaning no new money is coming into CFG at the level of Midco right now. Meanwhile, also worth noting that there are many reports of meetings of the members of Bahia to be held this coming Saturday to approve the deal for the...

I remember watching that one in a bar where I was on my own. As I recall, we had a lot of the game but never really looked like scoring, while they banged in four despite their limited possession. The next week, we played Spurs at home and Pep sprung a surprise with his team selection. He opted...

I'm not a specialist in defamation, mate, but I think your lawyers may have let you down. First, it's true. But second, even if you can't prove it to be true, in order to be libellous, a statement has to harm the reputation of the person involved. How can that possibly damage Sven's reputation...

Thanks, guys. I know about this stuff through my employer, in fact. I have my own view of the Russian legislation on foreign agents, which I won't express here, but I don't meet the current definition and work for a law firm here which can defend my interests if need be. And if they can't, I'm...

He was at his peak age as a player, an established member of Brazil's squad and, at club level, had won a heap of medals over the previous four years at the respective most successful clubs in Europe's top two leagues. In the light of that, IMO €37 million was a perfectly respectable valuation...

Wasn't he? According to Transfermarkt, Real Madrid paid €31.5 million to sign him from Porto in 2015 and sold him to us for €30 million two years later. The same source has him valued at €37 million in the swap deal for Cancelo a further two years after that. At that point, he was aged 28, so...

I was watching the live broadcast of the Zenit v Spartak match on Sunday. Technically wasn't the Russian league but a Cup tie. The Cup this year has four-team groups in the early phase, with teams playing each other twice, to create extra fixtures with Russian teams excluded from UEFA...

Thanks for the later link. Doesn't sound olike there'll be anything happening, apart from possibly demolition, in the near future.

They're two out of 40 such sites for which the National Grid, their owner, wants to find partners to help in their development. The most recent story about them that I can find is this one in the MEN from exactly 3 years ago. It suggested that residential use was most likely but it was unclear...

Reading posts like this, it's extremely exciting to think what the Etihad Campus will be like by 2025. Pleasing if the hotel is indeed part of the next phase - and especially if the mooted casino and conferencing facilities are incorporated into it at the stage. Remember that Co-op Live...