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Too easy. When did we last score 1st?

Gallagher shows his £5m class

Bennett's off at the end of the season, so what's the point of picking him? It really does defy logic.

Marcelo Bielsa of Leeds United understands it

Saaakkkkeeer.

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It's also the England cricket team - which includes players from Wales

This is an American takeover of European football to woo consumers in China And it won't stop under the present proposals; football will become like Super Bowl So among other Americanisation reforms we can look forward to 1. Breaks in play every 10-15 minutes for TV advertising 2. Matches played around the world; eg, Man Utd v Barcelona in Shanghai; Arsenal v Milan in Beijing; This is an existential threat to the game as we know it, dressed up as a guise according to the Real Madrid president as a "means to save football".

The current structure of football is capitalism par excellence - the rich few get all the spoils and want more to the exclusion of the vast majority. Ironically, the world's great capilaist country the US has a sporting regime that is almost communist with its franchise and player recruitnment system - essentially all clubs are equal and have as much chance of winning as each other Doesn't always work out like that of course but the Americans realise a capitalist top-down system in sport doesn't work - and with the same clubs dominating like in football, is in fact very boring

The PL is effectively a closed shop because of wealth. Leicester (and Rovers) winning the league were aberrations (and we were accused of buying the title)...they'll happen every 25 years or so; in the main the same clubs keep getting relegated from and win promotion to the PL. Even within the PL there are glass ceilings, or 3 leagues within the same league, those who will always struggle, those usually in the middle, and the same ones always at the top. The PL and current structure of English football is not a meritocracy

The majority of football league clubs - unless they get lucky - are cut off from that money because they will never have the resources to get to it. Rovers included now probably The PL and CL were formed to create a cartel of very rich clubs with the rest on the outside looking in - and it's been very successful in doing that

Football has always been about money and greed. The formation of the Premier League in early 1990s was about greed The Champions League, vastly inferior to the old European Cup, was about greed The ESL is no different

Your words, not mine Fifa won't get involved IMO. They want the world's best players at the World Cup - not players from Burnley and Fulham

Why are fans so up in arms about the ESL? It's only an extension of the Champions League - which already concentrated power and wealth with a few clubs and made football more of an elite game

Tosh, as you would say, and so naive Clubs pay the players' wages and most footballers are interested in one thing only....money. International football is a distraction to most of them

So the World Cup - already diminished because of the Champions League - would take place without the world's best players Fifa won't do it

Old Harry Kane told the board it was either him or Jose. Over-rated club that gets friendly publicity because alot of sports writers are London based. Everton and Newcastle have as much right as Spuds to be in the ESL.

It makes me smile if fans think they are going to have any say in this or try to stop it. The wealthy have made their decision and the plebs will have to go along with it

Football started out as the game of aristocrats Old Etonians etc before it was taken over by the working classes/ masses. Is this a case of football returning to its elite roots?

Useless minister makes vacuous statement. That’ll fix it

Matches will be on TV, right across the planet. Fans don't matter. Wake up!

Fans who think football is still about the fans are deluded. JP Morgan is backing this, eventually we'll see these games played in New York and Shanghai Followed by a final in Riyadh Money is all that matters

As a player I wouldn't cross Allardyce or Wilder. I think our lot are soft, too easily beaten all over the pitch, and would benefit from a sharp shock that both of them would give. I'm well aware of their other attributes.

Me neither Get a tough nut in who'll bark at our lazy, complacent squad and tell them some home truths, not a Rovers fan. Sam or Wllder is fine.

Flirting with relegation might have woken someone up either in the boardroom or in India that Mowbray needs to be sacked. As it is, safety means we've got him for another season of agony