Burnley's problem is that they buy players to get promotion from the Championship, and give them 3-4 year contracts, and they loan players in with purchase clauses connected to promotion, meaning more 3-4 year contracts for Championship rather than Premiership players... Which means that every...

It's not that the imports are poor, it's that the tactical and technical standard is extremely high now - if a player makes a small mistake they are made to look like a donkey. League One might be a great day out, but it's a horrible product to watch regularly - I say that after 4 years of the...

Premier League relegation zone could be pretty much locked in if Forest drop West Ham on Wednesday morning.

Was a good one. We don't half fight for each other. I thought we'd get beaten this week - City rolled us over 4 games ago with a full strength side, this time - 6 first team players out - we take them all the way. It's a good year to be a Sunderland supporter.

Yes and no. Yes - Slot is on borrowed time, looks like he's lost the room. What my boys appear to have done brilliantly (a lot of new players and team changes but everyone bedded in immediately with good team spirit), he looks like he's completely screwed. No - fact is Mo hasn't looked his...

I wouldn't be too down on how your lot played - we make good teams look bad. We're actually better against good teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool) than bad teams (which is why we lost to Burnley, Man Utd and Fulham). Our defensive organisation leaves so little room for making chances - we sit...

I'm not sure Frank is THAT good a manager. His record with the Danish national youth teams was patchy, he under-performed at Brondby, sacked as manager there and became assistant at Brentford, then got the main job because they prefer to promote from within. At Brentford he was the beneficiary...

He is though. He was blessed with many amazing attributes - but that was all balanced out by his face. He looks like someone who should be living under a bridge.

Most likely money, or a lack of it... Possibly politics. My bet would be someone wanted some money and there wasn't any.

Well that was an interesting few games... Man City score after seconds... Then go 2-0 up... Then Leeds get back to 2-2... Then City win it in injury time. At the same time... Bournemouth go 2-0 up at Sunderland, including a goal from 45 yards... Then Sunderland come back to win 3-2... At...

The rumour was around at the time - not sure what happened. Pity it didn't come off.

The majority of youth team players don't make it as professionals. It's nothing to do with clubs judging it wrong, or kids not working hard enough - the competition for places is just too high. I haven't looked too closely, but I'd say it's an extremely good youth team if more than half of the...

Clubs give this kind of deal to a lot of coaches - rather than have to pay them off a lump-sum when they are sacked, it defers payment throughout the contract. They take the chance that a coach isn't going to want to stay out of the game for 2 years whilst their old deal counts down. Whenever...

The only downside for Rob is that when he gets relegated and loses his job, clubs will be cautious about hiring him... But he's a clever lad a 3 1/2 year deal and he'll be sacked before the end of this season - leaving him with a juicy pay-out to go with the pay-out he got at Luton. It's...

A couple of my friends (and former business partners) tried to buy Gateshead a few years back. It all fell through. I strongly believe that if they had got hold of the club they'd be in the league by now.