Ever the pessimist

No.

Well, if it makes athletes more susceptible to coronary problems that would be seismic.

Well, if it makes athletes more susceptible to coronary problems that would be seismic.

Our illustrious owner

Wow. Good point.

I’m far from a Hollywood scriptwriter, but I think the truth is a better, more inspirational story.

Sterling ahead of Grealish

They’ll perpetuate the ‘was released by his boyhood club for being too small’ line, when in reality there were many other issues. And I say that as a big Vardy fan.

Apparently Italy’s performance will make people ‘sit and stand up’.

Hmmm. Commentary keep saying Turkey are tired. I hope that’s as Italy are better than them rather than a trend of teams being shattered after a long season.

Are BBC using fake crowd noise?

He's a pig - so the chances of him joining Wednesday, potentially for no / delayed payments, are probably quite slim.

Think UEFS said it was for some sort of anniversary of the tournament. A cynic might say that was a decent pretext to do something which, had it gone ahead as planned, would doubtless have made more money.

Norwich and Watford’s parachute payments are being redistributed amongst the premier league - I think just about covering these fines anyway.