Hello and welcome to the special Baroness's birthday edition of The Price of Football.

The show that looks at the money behind the beautiful game I'm Kevin Day.

He is Liverpool University's Kirim Maguire.

He is also hoping the Baroness will think this is a lovely surprise,

rather than the equivalent the bunch of flowers bought at a service station that fight.

Yes, my wonderful wife, she turned 60.

I'll say that today.

It's just birthday, don't say.

Which means she gets a rail card, which I'm very jealous of, of course, because I'm a dweep.

But yeah, we've had lots of nice messages because I've reached out to a few people.

I know she's been very patient with me this year as I've not had a single day not working due to football finance nonsense.

So quite a few people who have met over the course of football through politics and the game itself for the

meaning contact of a certain HRS or message.

The thing with the Baroness is she's going to have trouble with that free rail card because she's going to be constantly stopped by a railway employee saying you're 20 years too young.

Which is a sort of thing you should be saying here and rather than revealing the two age.

You've got some proper presence. You didn't just give her a free amortization class or a silky sprochi.

Yeah, I've got one or two things lined up for her.

Good. It's newsday here and the first story is actually something of a birthday present to you because you have been

mivaring on about this since we first met and it involves Manchester United.

Yes, and first of all, I'd like to say well done, Manchester United.

What they have done is they have committed to paying all of their staff the real living wage in Manchester.

Now, you know, we're talking 58 pence an hour, which might seem not a lot to some people, but it does make the difference to others.

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