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our team of writers David's still on holiday so his weekly column is in the hands

of Lori Whitwell and Lori will have updates on stories including pay-per-view and Chelsea's continued pursuit of West Ham's

Declan Rice. Greg O'Keefe joins us to talk about the small details really that are having

a negative effect on what was a great start to the season for Everton and the athletics Italian football writer James Horncastle details the second coming of Latin Ibrahimovich in Italy and also what Milan are doing off the pitch to get back to the top of the European game.

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just one pound a week so once again in David's absence Laurie Whitwell has taken care of the weekly column, musling in, stating his claim for it permanently.

Laurie is with us. Let's deal with pay-per-view, first of all, shall we?

Yes, what do you know chapers? Well it's not

going to stop is it because even though there hasn't been a great uptake it's

still made them five million quib. Well that's it I think that's the the sort of takeaway from what I've been speaking to people about this over the weekend and

so last week when you look at the numbers that were coming in

doesn't look like anything to write home about but then again they were only ever intended to make up for

the loss of match day revenue tickets and what have you.

With lockdown coming in I think quite a few people appreciate that it's a bad look to then still

be charging people 1495 for matches that

you know ostensibly wouldn't draw you know huge crowd wouldn't be on TV at all but

the fact of the matter is that those clubs that have smaller commercial revenues want to

stick by it I think really there might be a debate over the price point at

Thursday's meeting but there is it's not like a case of the clubs looking at

that and going actually yeah we've had a nightmare with this one we need to change

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