Careful on your island Spit, it’s dangerous there too… 🐝 🤪 [Link]

Pete - and he died in a pub in Valletta. No doubt his happy place. 😉

Happy New Year indeed, Pete.

HNY, by the way.

Paddington - The saddest thing about Gladiator was the death of Ollie Reed. Did you know Ollie was born in Raynes Pk, just down the road?

And Pete - we went to a talk at Kingston Library about 30 years ago by a historical armour expert. He'd been called in to advise the makers of the film 'Gladiator '. He said they ignored everything he said and just made it all up. He was well pissed off. Said they'd made the Romans look more like Roundheads when it came to headgear.

I thought I read that the Everyman chain was in danger of going bust...

Got an average of 3.4 on Letterboxd so cant be too dreadful

I would advise anyone tempted by the latest 28 Years Later movie to definitely put your money elsewhere.

Probably investing in a cinema group is nearly as risky as a football club.

Lol, sone of London a shit hole and rapidly getting worse , that's why most move out of London boroughs.

From an EFL document: "League One and League Two Clubs follow the Salary Cost Management Protocol (“SCMP”) These state that Clubs can only spend a fixed percentage of its revenue on player wages etc. This limit can also be added to or impacted by equity injections or net transfer spend."

*braced

"Look, Judah, he is driving a Greek chariot!"...camera zooms in on scythes on Messala's wheels, scythes which are each braces with 4 gussets. Now, forgive me for having an eye for detail, but those gussets are welded on. Pretty good for around 30AD, seeing as electric welding wasn't refined enough to accomplish that until 1904 (Oscar Kjellberg).

Maybe because the patrons of Everyman cinema aren't expected to fork out 30 times a season?

My quote was from the Cardiff hierarchy explaining what could be done in the Championship and how League 1 was different. My bet would be they know the rules well, if not maybe we can get them deducted a whole load of points.

What a great Attenborough programme this is [Link] showing how much wildlife there is in London - a must watch for all those who constantly slag London off all the time but who don’t really know it at all… 🤗

Thanks Jon.

I for one spend very little, if any, money at the ground. Don’t find it at all appealing for a drink post-match. Pretty much always stayed for drinks at KM after (and normally a pint before). Can’t recall the last time I had food at any football ground (tends to be over-priced and not great quality).

OI - first of all thankyou for responding. However are you sure that you are correct? My understanding from a brief read of the EFL protocol is that share capital is explicitly excluded from the definition of "Relevant Turnover" . You may be confusing the definition of "Relevant Turnover" which is the base used for determining the max 60% wage cap with "Football Fortune Income" which is used to determine solvency.

OI Well explained for our Next major shareholder. He's just waiting for the 50+1 vote!

"In League 1 turnover is also allowed to include cash injected by the club owner by way of new non-refundable share capital ( i.e not loans).So an owner can greatly increase the allowable limits of player wages by this method" - so it does include cash injections and this is how clubs manage to have much bigger budgets than us. Again it may be possible to up our spend per head, I'll leave that argument tp those experienced but I don't think we are purposely keeping it low.

Could someone please explain how they think a fairy god father/mother directly impacts or assists our playing budget. In JJ’s post-match interview, he reiterated the fact that unlike other clubs in our division, we are restrained from making new signings, based on our lack of financial resources. A recent statement from the Club suggested that we have the second lowest playing budget in the league. The thing is all League 1 clubs have to abide by an overall Player Salary limit dictated by the EFL set at a maximum of 60% of “relevant Turnover” – which includes matchday & season ticket receipts but does not include cash injections from owners or exceptionals such as net transfer income. Could anyone who believes that we can’t balance our own books without a Millionaires fairy dust please explain why Wimbledon shouldn’t be able to achieve at least the same average spend per head as the Everyman Cinema? Aren’t some people just making excuses for failure to do so?

Cureron is currently player-manager of King's Park Rangers in the Eastern Counties division one north.

Jamie Cureton is still playing aged 50.