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Literally can't be worse than having a keeper who is seemingly stuck in knee deep mud at all times.

I've wondered before if I'll still be a lunatic watching NUFC when I'm older. This gives me hope.

Very roughly speaking I think a Europa League R16 appearance would be approximately equal to winning the Conference League. One other pretty sizable difference is in coefficient points. Both give 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw from the group stage onwards (same as CL). But the Europa League bonuses are double the points -- 4 for group winners (vs. 2), 2 for group runners-up (vs. 1), and 1 for every knockout round (vs. only 1 point bonuses for SF/Final).

This is just prize money. All three competitions have the same revenue components: participation, coefficient, TV pool, and performance prize. Then there's the additional matchday income as you said.

This seems quite perfect if we think a loan is the right move.

That £12.5m is just the prize money portion. It's an estimate but West Ham got approx £19-20m in total for the Conference League. The year before they got about £27m from reaching the Europa League semifinal. Arsenal got about £21m from last season's Europa League Round of 16.

I thought the pressure of not being able to have a single slip up would get to Arsenal and potentially Liverpool. Certainly didn’t think it would happen to both today.

That doesn’t help the drunken spending, but it’s not the core reason for the never ending arm’s race.

The way football is structured and the amount of money in the game now has created a fundamental flaw on the financial side that I’m not sure has any solution. Clubs at the top of the pyramid like Man City and Real Madrid have revenues approaching a billion £ annually, but they have to spend most of it to maintain their position. The clubs behind them need to spend everything to stay in the Champions League / try to win a title. The ones behind them spend it all to try to get there, the ones in the middle spend it all to stay there, and the ones at the bottom spend it all to try to survive. There is no such thing as treading water in football; you can’t take a year to reset without great risk. And if you’re a Champions League club or bottom half club then every season you are at risk of £70-£100m+ in revenue vanishing the next season. This makes it incredibly difficult to be consistently profitable. Now you can argue that football clubs shouldn’t be corporate entities generating huge profits, which is fair if not a bit fantastical in the 21st century. But the problem is if you aren’t profitable in the best of times then a downturn can quickly put a club in a tenuous position.

What’s wrong with helping people grow weed?

Selling a hotel to yourself is a whole other level of accounting shenanigans.

From midtable, manager out depression to planning on making up a 10 point gap with six games to play.

Can we play Spurs at home every April please?

I made this mistake during the Everton game.

I need a picture of Isak with Van De Ven on the floor upside down.