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Manny Pacquiao has said he's coming out of retirement to fight Conor Benn.

One with a happy ending I hope.

Just to pick you up on that. We didn't vote for it as we weren't in the Premier League when PSR was voted in (Feb 2013) 13 clubs voted in favour Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal Tottenham Everton Liverpool West Ham Norwich Stoke Newcastle Sunderland Wigan QPR 6 clubs voted against Man City West Brom Swansea Fulham Southampton Aston Villa Reading mysteriously abstained from the vote, which gave the motion the 2/3 majority required (13 votes out of 19) to implement PSR.

So is he suspended while this investigation is on going, or will he still be on the touchline for tomorrow's FA Cup QF?

49 direct free-kicks scored in his career. It's very impressive. Until you discover that he had a career conversion rate of 4.5%. Meaning he will have taken over 1000 direct free-kicks in his career. A compilation video of him smashing free-kicks into Row Z would be nearly 22 times longer in duration.

Because pocketing that Prem TV money, even for just one season, is the best way out of this mess we're in. I don't care if we break Derby's record low points total. We need that TV money, desperately.

I thought this too but after looking into it, it's simply not true. PSR was voted in by the Premier League clubs in February 2013 and ratified in April of that year. We won the Premier League with PSR. We won the FA Cup with PSR. We finished 5th twice with PSR. The problem was that the club deviated away from the player recruitment system that was working for them. And also the fact that the allowable losses under PSR have remained the same since its inception (£105m over 3 years) and have not increased in-line with inflation. Premier League clubs vote in favour of FFP ESPN staff February 7, 2013 Premier League clubs have voted in favour of introducing a Financial Fair Play deal and restrictions on wages. Representatives of the clubs first met in December to discuss proposals on a new system obliging teams to break even, as well as imposing some sort of cap on wages. The clubs agreed to reconvene on Thursday with 13 votes out of 20 needed to accept the proposals. Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and Liverpool were all expected to back the new plans, while Manchester City, Fulham, West Brom and Aston Villa were expected to vote against. In actual fact, the vote for the financial regulations could hardly have been closer - as six were against with Reading abstaining. It meant that the 'yes' vote only narrowly achieved the necessary two-thirds majority of the 19 votes cast. Clubs sources say Fulham, West Brom, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Swansea and Southampton all voted against. Chelsea, who had initially been viewed as opponents of financial fair play regulations, voted in favour. In a statement, the Blues said they are supportive of moves that promote financial stability. It read: "Premier League clubs today reached an agreement to introduce financial stability rules and wage controls for the league. Chelsea Football Club is supportive of moves that promote financial stability in football. We are already subject to UEFA's financial fair play principles and will comply with those. "The new rules will be subject to further detailed discussions before they are brought in and we will play our part in those to ensure implementation is fair for all clubs in the league.'' The Premier League's legal advisers will now work on the detailed proposals and these will be brought back before the chairmen in April to be ratified. After the meeting, West Ham joint-chairman David Gold said that a majority did vote in favour of the proposals. "The clubs supported change. We've all voted and it was overwhelmingly supported. Some clubs are a little concerned, but the vast majority voted in favour," he told Sky Sports. "That will now go to the board for putting into rules, and we'll vote on that in April." Gold added: "It's not a salary cap, it's a restraint on over-spending. It's not a cap - it's a restraint. If clubs increase their revenues then they can increase their spending. "We have got restraint, that's the important thing. What's driving the whole thing is we've got to avoid another Portsmouth.'' The Premier League's expected FFP system would be less restrictive than UEFA's, which is gradually being introduced and obliges clubs to break even or face possible exclusion from European competition. At Thursday's meeting, the chairmen were presented with a proposal for owners to be allowed to cover losses up to £105 million over a three-year period. That is significantly more flexible than UEFA's which only allows losses of €45 million (£39 million) over three years to be covered by owners. If plans go ahead, the Premier League would be the first top-flight European league to bring in such a system.

Brighton getting drummed by Roma.

Yunus' obligation is also dependent on a certain number of appearances, is it not?

Ok player. Not really done much wrong, but hopefully Ndidi can stay fit and we don't need to play him much from now on. I don't think the club see any value in triggering the obligation to buy.

Vardy, Nacho, Ndidi, Vestergaard, Praet will all be off the books by the end of June. That's probably at least £350k per week saved on wages.

And could've sold KDH in January, but didn't. Surely if things were that bleak KDH would've gone.

It would've been 1988. He was a scab replacement player for the Chicago Bears during the 1987 NFL players strike. Then one season with the Panthers before starting his coaching career at San Diego State.

A business plan? What do they think this is? The Apprentice? I'm sure they could take a wild guess at what our business plan is. It's short and to the point......GET PROMOTED.

Russell Wilson to be released by the Broncos, with up to $82m in dead salary cap money to be spread over the next 2 seasons. Ouch.

Fair play to them. 3-2 up in injury time and going all out for a 4th

Oh dear.

Take the points and never speak of this game again.

Tough watch but important thing is that we're winning.

Is this Suderland commentary?

He's gone to......Longstanton Spice Museum.

I think tonkings like we saw last night are going to become more common in the PL. When one team can spend £100m+ on Declan Rice and the other can just about cover Oli Norwood's wages. These PSR regulations were the big six's revenge for not being allowed to join the Super League.

Simple, but effective commentary. Letting the pictures tell most of the story. None of the verbal diarrhoea you get nowadays.

Arsenal are falling behind the required run rate.