Jim Kyle

@henrywinter The probable 15 point deduction is likely to happen because the current bidder won't pay an extra £15m to pay unsecured creditors 25% of what they're owed - he'd rather spend it elsewhere - to the detriment of other teams in the league which pay 100% of their creditors

Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest football clubs in the world, their famous name woven into the tapestry of the game. Formed in 1867, elected to the Football League in 1892, founder members of the Premier League, four times champions of England, three times winners of the FA Cup, and the League Cup once. Such honours may be far back in history but Wednesday remain a powerful force in many lives, in families, communities, in Sheffield and beyond. It would be devastating to Wednesday supporters and deeply damaging to the reputation of English football if Wednesday lost their membership of the EFL because of the behaviour of an owner in Dejphon Chansiri who passed initial EFL ownership tests, was welcomed (let’s not forget), but turned out to be shamelessly irresponsible. Wednesday fans fear the club's existence might be at risk if the EFL imposes further punishments and restrictions that deter potential buyers. Stronger oversight of owners is clearly required and the EFL and PL did tighten their rules in 2023. The new Independent Football Regulator will introduce a proper licensing system for clubs and better oversight of owners. Unfortunately, the IFR did not come into force early enough to prevent Wednesday's downward slide under Chansiri. Wednesday are currently in administration and threatened with further EFL sanctions – a 15-point deduction for next season. This season's 18-point deduction all but guaranteed relegation from the Championship (confirmed on Feb 22). The League applies sanctions as punishment for debts and also as a deterrent to other clubs/owners. The EFL emphasises it is working with all parties to “try and find a solution that can see Sheffield Wednesday continue as a member of the League....but ultimately we have to also apply the terms of the League’s insolvency policy…which seeks to balance the interests, not only of Sheffield Wednesday, but also of the other 71 clubs”. Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust, fighting hard for their club’s survival, has now released a copy of the EFL’s insolvency policy and argues that it gives the League, in the Trust’s words, “absolute discretion when determining how to deal with clubs experiencing an insolvency event”. The Trust argues that “…further punitive sanctions risk undermining the very factors the EFL states it must consider - including the effect on supporters, the impact on the local community and the wider credibility of the league itself. “Sheffield Wednesday supporters are not seeking advantage over other clubs. It is entirely right that all EFL clubs should be treated fairly and consistently. That principle must include Sheffield Wednesday that has already suffered enormously during a decade in which the EFL’s own regulatory oversight failed to prevent the damage that unfolded. “We urge the EFL to apply its own guidance responsibly and ensure that the focus now is on allowing the club to recover, stabilise and move forward under new ownership. Sheffield Wednesday supporters have suffered enough.” #SWFC #EFL @SWFCTrust

@prodnose Not as much as George Harrison's "Taxman" sounds like "Start", allegedly written by Paul Weller

It's not timeless. It was written by Lonnie Mack in 1963 as "He's So Fine" recorded by The Chiffons.

@peterstopcrime In the 1980s Jeremy Richardson KC was a Tory councillor in Sheffield. His politics were Thatcherite These days his younger self would be "far right" I imagine the judge is full of self-loathing

This judge is Jeremy Richardson KC He sentenced Peter Lynch 61, To 2 years 8 mths for non violent protest. Peter was holding the off topic placard at a riot , Peter killed himself in Prison The Judge let a paedophile off with a suspended sentence, the paedophile didn’t kill himself in prison because he don’t go to prison The judge let a dangerous driver who killed a cyclist off with a suspended sentence. The driver was also banned from driving for five years, the driver didn’t kill themself in prison because again they were not in prison !

@FraserNelson You really think that pensioners with "five times the wealth" are using the bus?

People aged 65-74 have five times the wealth of those aged 25-34. So why do shop workers and cleaners pay full fare while pensioners ride free? A good question from Stephen Bleach... times-comment.com/bus

@stylecorners Creo que es un jugador inteligente, pero sinceramente no creo que sea lo suficientemente rápido ni lo suficientemente físico como para jugar en un equipo de élite Ojalá alguien pague pronto su cláusula de rescisión Espero que triunfe, aunque no creo que lo haga

- Nadie va a abrir el melón de Rodrigo Mendoza?.-

@LeeHurstComic Britain also gave a ludicrous 'guarantee' to Poland it could not possibly support in reality, which encouraged the Polish gov't not to negotiate over disputed territory that the British gov't already recognised was really German Parallels. Many.

Many people bring up Hitler and appeasement as a justification for war rather than talks. Very few seem to realise that Britain went to war for 6 years to defend and liberate Poland and in fact didn’t. At the end of the war the Soviet Union ruled instead of the Nazis and carried on the killing of Polish nationalists. Would the same people have considered continuing the war by attacking the Soviets or would they have pragmatically accepted the Polish people being ruled by a different dictator as Churchill did?

@redrumlisa @afneil Nottinghamshire voted against strike action didn't it? But some miners went on strike anyway. Solidarity? Not much. The industry was finished. What happened in the UK was mirrored in the rest of Europe. France quit mining even before Britain.

@afneil No I dont. And as the daughter of a Nottinghamshire Striking Miner & I still live in the mining communities what was done & continues to be done to us should never be forgotten & I'll always remind everyone of that.

I appreciate blaming Thatcher is a common default position even 35 years after she left government. But suppose some UK coal mines had survived into the early 21st century. Do you really think they’d then have survived Ed Miliband’s near zero zealotry?

@redrumlisa @afneil For an academic you seem remarkably short on facts

@afneil The mining industry was closed because the Thatcher Government said tax payers shouldn't subsidise it. Consequences millions unemployed, great swathes of the Country lay in ruins & the eventual crash of our industrial economy.

During that quarter century you’ve enjoyed over £30 billion in direct subsidies (plus many more billions in indirect subsidies) for offshore wind alone. Yet still you require more subsidy for further expansion. And despite repeated claims to being cheaper — when all costs are included you remain very far from cheap. If you were as cheap as you claim you wouldn’t need all that subsidy. Plus the cost of job creation per job is astronomical. But you have proved the most efficient mechanism since medieval times for transferring money from the poor to the rich, including Crown Estates.

Así es la visión y la mampara de la zona visitante del nuevo Camp Nou. 🎞️ @TradeScore67

@JuventinaHannah @MJTruthUltra I don't know what your point is? Watford (in your bio) had 67k (87%) white British residents in 1991. In 2021 it had only 49k (49%) In what sense is Watford still culturally British?

@MJTruthUltra These comments always coming from so called white Americans are so incredibly stupid. Not a single white American is American they all came from one of Europe's 'white' countries. So nothing has changed from the 1700s until now in that sense.

Tucker: London is now 36% white within the last 40 years. Piers Morgan: England is 70% white Tucker: It was 99% white in 1945 Piers Morgan: We’ve evolved.. Tucker: Whites are becoming the minority in your country Piers Morgan: So What? What other race is enthusiastic about becoming extinct? Clip rumble.com/v72an5i-whites… Full Show x.com/tuckercarlson/…

niñato chupapollas

@Telegraph Even allowing for the Met Office's dubious calculations and fraudulent use of non-existent stations, it isn't the "hottest". That remains 1976 And 1893 also had a higher seasonal average maximum

🔴 Britain is at risk of a winter hosepipe ban, the Environment Agency has warned. The country is currently experiencing low water levels after its hottest summer since 1884. Find out more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

@CarysPoet @richardosefton There's your trouble......

@richardosefton I work in public services, local authority. Our budgets have been slashed year on year. Resources cut, workforce shrunk, but expected to deliver more. Some teams are on their knees. I would happily pay more tax. I would also like to see a complete overhaul of the tax system.

@AyoubKhanMP If visiting football fans are to be banned for reasons nothing to do with themselves, then at the very least this match should be played behind closed doors Shameful that @WMPolice and @AVFCOfficial have capitulated to these threats from non-football sources

I welcome the news that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa! Well done to all those that signed our petition!

@_HenryBolton Anything is worth what the market says it's worth. A slew of tax on top depresses the market Hasn't that been the tactic of busybody governments for decades when they want us to stop buying something, anything, that they consider to be "bad for us"?

Surely, if the Stamp Duty is removed, sellers will simply raise the asking price by a similar amount. Sellers will gain, buyers will see no difference and the Treasury will lose at least £4.5bn in revenue.

@Frank9478968518 @podcastandrei @GoodwinMJ It's very, very naive to believe that the BMA does not have a significant input into decisions made by the GMC or government It's always been reactionary, like all unions, and it acts firstly in what it considers to be the interests of its members

@podcastandrei @jimkyle90 @GoodwinMJ It has never been up to doctors. Neither was the decision to introduce larger numbers of international medical graduates. Down to a series of incompetent government's failing at future planning

Last year, the UK produced only 9,285 trained doctors while registering nearly 20,000 from mainly developing nations overseas and rejecting thousands of British kids. It is insane.

@Frank9478968518 @podcastandrei @GoodwinMJ The BMA delegates' position had "consistently" been to protect their own careers. That's why there was no expansion back then that causes severe shortages now

@jimkyle90 @podcastandrei @GoodwinMJ BMA have never had any control over medical school places and their position has consistently been to match medical school places to jobs and higher training places. When they have proposed limiting of places it has been due to a lack of jobs or higher training places

@podcastandrei @GoodwinMJ Recruitment of doctors in the UK has always been restricted by the doctors' own union Medical places at university have been over-subscribed by between 7/10-1 forever, so there is no shortage of takers

@GoodwinMJ Why don't we train more here? At least that way we can control the standards. Why do we have restrictions in place on the number of doctors and nurses we can train? That makes no sense, unless the intended result is to bring more foreigners here, for no good reason whatsoever.

@oscargomezd74 Lo ha hecho todo, excepto marcar, incluyendo asistencias Potencialmente es el mejor de nuestros delanteros, y eso es mucho decir. Estamos en un buen momento

Cómo me puede gustar tanto Álvaro Rodríguez, alías "las controlo todas, las devuelvo todas bien", si no ha marcado ni un solo chicharro??