WestYorksRoyal For those interested, Opta think we only have a 2.9% chance of relegation. I wish I shared their confidence.

Well, a few have posted that we are "90%" there, so a bit less optimistic than Opta.

Leicester made a £90m pre-tax loss last season, despite extending their financial year by a month in order to include the Maddison transfer fee in that season's accounts. They made a gross loss of £124m. Their total losses for their last 3 seasons in the Premier League totalled more than £215M; the...

Here are the official EFL League One nominations EFL League One Manager of the Season John Mousinho - Portsmouth Steve Evans - Stevenage Darren Ferguson - Peterborough United EFL League One Player of the Season Harrison Burrows – Peterborough United Nathaniel Mendez-Laing – Derby County Marlon Pack...

What about Off at Eleven (OAE)? I vaguely remember that, but not what format it took. I first signed up to this portal when it was a shade of pale blue and lots of cascading messages down the page like a Windows Explorer tree, with titles of "X" then "Re: X" then "Re: Re: X...

If I knew how to upload a photo, I would post the relevant part of my current Employment Contract. It states that "..it is a condition of employment that employees will not either directly or indirectly be employed, or concerned with any other business, trade or service (whether or not undertak...

I'd hope that there is something built in re the possibility of relegation and the final price, given when exclusivity was announced we were only 6 points above the drop zone with 2 more games to go than today We're all speculating. But relegation definitely increases the risk of it falling through...

There is a world of difference between a player being encouraged to consider a new career post-retirement, and someone who has a full time job and plays professional football as their 2nd job. Also, if you look at your employment contract there is almost certainly a clause in it preventing you from ...

When there were two types of leagues there wasn't any semi professional teams as no player was allowed to be paid in the amateur clubs/league. There were allowed to be paid for "expenses", which I think became such a minefield that Amateur was dropped by the FA and allowed all clubs to pa...

What nobody knows is how important the magic number is. 2 months ago, 99% of the fan base would have snapped your hand off for L2 but a new owner in for next season. With the deal supposedly closer, how important is staying up? Is relegation merely bad or existential? Bad. It means the owners have ...

Good to read the above exchanges, as it shows that there is nothing leaking out from the exclusivity process. We just have to let them get on with it and we will hear any news as and when. Hopefully the team can perform on the pitch and stay up, as I suspect relegation might cause a re-think from th...

I genuinely fancy us in this game; I am going 3-1 Reading.

Royal Ginger We’ll probably do just enough to stay up and then have our suspended points deduction triggered with a celebratory pitch invasion thus relegating us.

If any single post sums up what it has been like to be a Reading supporter this season, this is it.

It already has got closer than we would like!!!!

I fundamentally agree that we are 90% of the way there, and I think another 5 or 6 points (however earned) will be enough for us to stay up (notwithstanding any additional points deductions that we may end up getting between now and the end of the season of course!)

Didn't Leicester succesfully argue that, because they were in the Premier League at the time of the breaches, the EFL had no jurisdiction, and then when the Premier League went after them (because of this defence), they tried to argue that, because they were now in the EFL, the Premier League had no...

Updated Magic Number for the Women to stay up (and eliminating GD) folowing Sunday's results: London City: (2 games left) 1 point guarantees safety (currently on 22 points) Durham: (2 games left - incl v Reading) 3 points guarantees safety (currently on 20 points) Reading: (3 games left) 5 points gu...

The choice of name for the holding company is odd and will fuel the Bisciotti rumours. The entity is wholly owned by Chiron and Rifkind has signed the loan agreement, but why call it the same name as another leading sports investment fund? Could it be possible that Chiron have sought a partner with...

Article in the i about the van at Wembley;

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/foot ... st_popular

So no news is good news then.

So if the rumours are correct and the prospective new owners are buying us as an Arbitrage play - with funds from various exotic industries (crypto/longevity biotech) - the protests continue or they stop? Do we want sugar daddies who gamble on making money (for themselves) in the prem or not? I was...