Ghost of Clough

My comment was referring specifically to "coming on at the halfway line when a cross is about to come in"

It's a local market for local people

We were about to break away on the counter, he ran on and intercepted...

The all-time top division table swaps the two sets of teams. It also brings in Wolves, Bolton and Blackburn at the expense of Forest, Leicester and Southampton.

Top 20 in average league position over the last 50 years (prior to the end of the 16/17 season) says ... Arsenal Aston Villa Chelsea Derby Everton Ipswich Leeds Leicester Liverpool Manchester United Manchester City Middlesbrough Newcastle Norwich Nottingham Forest Southampton Sunderland Tottenham West Brom West Ham Looks like a solid top division to me. We could expand it to 24 teams to include both Sheffield clubs, Wolves and Birmingham (although they didn't place in the top 24 over the 50 year period).

His head looks too small for his body

Typically

Our injured players now account for 11 of our 17 assists this season: Fozzy (4), Bennett (3), Bryson (2), Waghorn and Mount (1)

The average Championship club receives about £3.7m (£2.95m + a share of £17.7m based on TV appearances). That works out as only £161k per home game. The figures I shared yesterday showed the average Championship game had about 300k domestic viewers. That means the average Championship club receives only 54p per viewer. The average Premier League club receives £117.5m per season equating to £6.87 per domestic viewer.

As has been mentioned before, the deal in question is domestic only - not international.

Soft decisions went against us all game. Our players couldn’t get anywhere near them first half without the red blowing his whistle. Frank obviously told the players to stand off them at half time to not give the ref an excuse. That in turn effected how we play and the result went from a 50:50 game to a one-sided affair

Except Hull were too slow with the paperwork for Butterfield...

I would guess at Thorne's contract extension (last season) and Frank seemingly wanting rid this season, are both financially (FFP) motivated.

The international break has come at a good time for us once again. On the final whistle against Villa we were possibly down to only 13 fit first team players (assuming Pearce, Thorne, Butterfield and Anya are all out of the picture). Evans, Ledley, Bryson, Mount, Waghorn all confirmed as out. Bennett and Forsyth came off injured. According to some Carson, Tomori, Huddlestone and Holmes were all struggling with knocks/slight injuries too. Leaving us with: Roos, Wisdom, Bogle, Keogh, Davies, Malone, Johnson, Wilson, Lawrence, Jozefzoon, Marriott, Nugent.

The average Championship game pulls in somewhere around 300k viewers. Meanwhile, the lowest Prem game pulls in 450k, with the average being about 900k. (https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/leeds-united-aston-villa-nottingham-915465) https://www.statista.com/statistics/869181/english-premier-league-television-viewership-uk/