Nick W - Yep, good discussion subject.

Nick - There is an elite, there has been an elite ever since the Premier League arrived. If you really want to blame the elite try the Premier League. Personally I think it is the fault of clubs in the EFL, willing to make enormous annual losses across the 72 clubs.

Wonder if mr Mayo has delivered his findings on the DT elections yet. Something else to ask on Wednesday

OI - it might be tucked away on TNT, but that does not lessen the damage it perpetuates for the majority of clubs in this country.

If darts is just a “game” then so is archery, shooting, bowls and any else which is primarily about accuracy rather than physical fitness. You can divide the “sports and games” universe in numerous different ways (eg you could say that Formula 1, show jumping etc are not “real sports” because the effort is really being done by a machine or an animal) but any such division is going to be purely arbitrary and a matter of opinion - though of course still fun to argue about.

Trigger - Ditto darts and Snooker, yet Phil Taylor came 2nd in SPOTY in 2010 and Ronnie O'Sullivan was nominated in both 2020 & 2022 (not placed in either). Both are (pub/club) games, not sports, IMHO, but there you go.

I’d like to see the Premier League done using the squash ladder system.

Surprising number of people I know who have paid up for the full suite of footy streaming options.

Chess uses the 'Swiss system' game or sport, albeit slightly differently. Anyway the Champions League isn't for all and is tucked away on TNT Sports in any case.

Chess is a game not a sport

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Get the Chelsea women in there pronto.

Cheers, Postman. here is the Broncos live link [Link] It's interesting watching a different sport at NPL. Not many there, unless the main stand is packed.

Broncos game live now on YouTube

Most chess tournaments are meaningless then as run on that basis, although of course many people think that anyway.

About half the teams in the Champions League group are Championship level with a few L1 standard teams.

Totally agree NickD - how any leave table can remain relevant under those conditions I do not know

It was suggested on the radio yesterday that Spurs find it easier in Europe as the other teams attack them and they catch them on the counterattack which isn’t the case in the Premier league

I maintain that a league system in which you don’t play every other team in that league renders a competition even more meaningless than it was in the first place. But again, good for the exploitative money men.

Slightly weird that Spurs are looking really good in Europe but very poor in the Premier League- the same issue as last year, which sort of shows that it wasn’t just an “Ange thing” then

Perhaps JJ can do some of his subs earlier? Like Reeves after 25 minutes?

I didn't realise West Ham had lost 11 home league games in 2025 though I can quite believe it.

Don’t think Djokovic will win another slam now, he is 39 in May, perhaps he would have won a 25th slam if he hadn’t been deported from Australia for his anti Covid vaccine stance in 2022

"West Ham gone all Spursy" - didn't realise that West Ham had automatically qualified for the later stages of the Champions League?

Massive car park at Vale IIRC, not the nicest area so bring a car lock