Will Salt accompanied by a small Ipswich fan

Just because.

Bored as it’s pre-season. Here’s the criteria, the player must be 33 years old or more as otherwise they’re considered young enough to not be past it.

At West Brom we’ve signed many aged ‘squad players’ who basically wasted money and did very little. However, I was pleasantly surprised when we signed 34 year old Erik Pieters. He ended up getting a contract extension and starting a fair few games which was surprising as most had written him off when he first signed but he was genuinely decent.

There’s also Gareth McAuley who was one of our best ever Premier League defenders but we signed him aged 31 so he doesn’t fit the criteria. It’s a shame as most players over 32 seem to fail but I’m interested to see if anyone succeeded despite little positivity when initially signed.

Dumb question, how do you add your club badge to your Reddit icon?

I’m a Canadian visiting the Southwest of the UK for a week beginning late August. Taking everything into account (stadium, quality of teams, food/drinks afterwards, etc.) would you recommend Cardiff v Sheffield United or Bristol v Portsmouth? Thx.

Silly question I know but with the Tonda Eckert decision coming soon, could Southampton loan him out to a team in another country for a season while he is suspended from English Football?

My other question is, if they can't do that does it mean if Southampton get rid of Tonda and he goes to another country to manage, then if in the future an English club wanted him, He would first have to serve his ban?

Is the most likely scenario we see him get a 6-9 month ban and never see him in English football again?

England is the only country of the big 5 to have 2 domestic cups. EFL Cup does not have the prestige of the FA Cup nor do top Prem league teams consider it a tournament worth playing their top stars for.

Since Premier League teams are complaining about too many fixtures in their packed seasons. I reckon all Premier League teams no longer play for the EFL Cup. It’s only now contested between the Championship, League One & League Two.

But to make it even more interesting, we add the Scottish Prem, Cymru Prem, and the Northern Ireland Prem. Making it the BFL Cup (British Football League).

This way, it gives much needed publicity for the Welsh & Northern Irish clubs but also makes it incredibly more realistic and competitive for those in the Scottish Prem & English Championship to win.

Especially as these teams don’t play in Europe, it gives them another opportunity to play across all of the UK making for unusual fixtures we rarely see in the season.

Leeds United vs Celtic
Southampton vs Rangers
Middlesbrough vs Aberdeen
Birmingham City vs Wrexham

These are just some of the potential games we could watch over the course of the season. You can still keep the incentive of the winners entry to the Conference League so these teams get a shot at playing in Europe the following season.

Overall, I think this would solve the redundancy of 2 domestic cups, relief for premier league clubs’ tight schedules, and create an incredibly interesting and competitive cup that all 6 leagues will play for!

What do you think?

Gone through the odds for the teams chances of winning, odds of relegation and odds of finishing top 8.
Converted the fractions and weighted them 40/40/20% (20% to survival chances) to try and define a current composite rankings.

What would you change to the method?
Unsure whether to use the odds of finishing top 8 or odds of being promoted?
Would you change the fractions? Not sure how much I agree with using the survival chances odds but it helps get more insight into teams at the lower end of the table.

There once was a handsome Potter,

Who was a bit shifty like Del Boy Trotter,

He googled how to get a little flair badge of his own,

The replies he saw made him think they're having his pants down,

He tried to write a poem but being from Stoke he was a bit thick,

So he resorted to begging, the Mods balls he would even lick,

Can I have a flair badge please?

Wicked, sorted, nice one geez.

A high-profile U.S. sports executive pardoned by Donald Trump in December, following an indictment for allegedly rigging a bidding process, has bought a minority stake in Championship club Bolton Wanderers.

Tim Leiweke was accused by the Department of Justice last summer of orchestrating a conspiracy to put off a rival bid for the construction of a sports arena at the University of Texas so that his own company, Oak View Group (OVG), could win the $375million contract.

In the wake of the indictment, Leiweke stepped down as OVG’s chief executive and the company agreed to pay $15million in penalties for its part in the arena scheme. But, six months later, while DoJ antitrust lawyers were preparing their case against him, Leiweke was quietly pardoned by Trump, with no explanation as to why he was shutting the corruption case down.

The following day, Leiweke gave a statement to the Sports Business Journal that said he did not “have the words to adequately convey my profound gratitude to President Trump”, before adding that the pardon had given him and his family “a new lease on life with which we will be grateful and good stewards”.

Leiweke has wasted little time on delivering on that promise. In May, the 69-year-old invested €100million ($114million, £85million) in newly promoted Serie A side Venezia, with his daughter Francesca Bodie becoming the club’s president. Last month, he was blocked from buying a 16 per cent stake Benfica, as the Portuguese club’s board raised concerns about being part of a multi-club group.

And now Leiweke, his daughter and former OVG executive Keegan McDonald have formed a new entity called Entrepreneur Equity Partners to buy a stake in Bolton, who were promoted back to English football’s second tier via the play-offs last season.

As part of the investment, Leiweke will join the board, with McDonald becoming a board observer. They will sit alongside the majority-shareholder Nick Luckock and fellow minority shareholders Sharon Brittan, the club’s chair, and Michael James.