Hello and welcome to the price of football, the show that looks at the money behind a beautiful game with me, Kevin Day and Liverpool University's Keira McGuire.

See the energy of that hello from me, Kieran, sometimes your positive vibes just rub off in the morning, just two minutes of saying hello to you and sharing the news of the world, not the news of the world, you know, just the gossip and the tilt-out, and you just, I'll go from being barely awake to, ah, things are okay, aren't it? Kieran's got a big smile on his face.

It's a bit cloudier than yesterday. I'll think that would hurt you up a bit. Well, it would do, except that people keep telling me this is only for a day, and it's going to be hotter than ever tomorrow. Also, I've made a rod for my own back, because people know I hate the heat so much, so they keep reminding me how hot it is. it's just literally

it's one of my favorite Frankskinner jokes.

It was so hot yesterday, me grand took her hat off.

It's newsday, Kieran.

There's still no white smoke or red and blue smoke from UEFA,

although the mood music now seems to be that UEFA are locked into having to make a decision

based on what the world was like on the 1st of March.

But there are clubs, Kieran, with far worse problems than Crystal Palace potentially not being in Europe.

And one of those, I'm afraid, is Sheffle Wednesday.

And the pebbles are really, really starting to roll down the mountain now there, Kieran, aren't they?

They are.

It's a very challenging position, which we see in respect of Wednesday.

We're doing this at the start of July.

By all accounts, a lot of people weren't paid on time at the end of June.

That involves both playing staff and non-playing staff.

I've taken a look at the uh the afl handbook and it says that if there is a serious

or persistent failure to pay wages then the club potentially is in breach of contract and we

have seen reported from various high-profile

journalists, you know, journalists that we respect, that players are effectively handing in their

notice or working about how they can hand in their notice. I have been in contact with our sources at the club because there was a story circulating

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