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“Long-term growth”, “profit and sustainability’, “investment for the future”, “rising costs of goods and services”: the language of modern football has become interchangeable with the halting guff coughed out by UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt in Wednesday’s budget. Indeed, football finance is such big news that recent years have witnessed the growth of a new subset, the “football finance expert”. It can be a broad church, from Gianni Infantino rolling in Saudi money, to Big Sir Jim’s Manchester United revolution, via more parochial stuff like the running costs of Neasden FC since Buffy Cohen flounced out. It can be a vital service, as spreadsheets, balance sheets and profit and loss accounts strain the eyes of those not blessed with accountant-standard numeracy.

As a Jane-come-lately to the world of tribal support, I’m utterly delighted by yesterday’s Football Daily on the Championship. I have no erudite analysis and neither do I want to win a prize, but well done for championing the Championship. Love from a relatively recent Leicester supporter” – Krystyna Findley.

As Sarah Rothwell alluded to in yesterday’s Football Daily letters about the travails of my local team, the Colorado Rapids, they stink now. But they were once good and even won the MLS Cup in 2010 when they were led by free-scoring Jamaican forward, Omar Cummings. Since then, they’ve struggled to win, at altitude or at sea level, and I haven’t been so regularly. For a while, I blamed the club’s failings on Stan Kroenke’s ownership, but then his Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup, his Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl and his Denver Nuggets won the NBA title. Then, I started to base my non-attendance on Kroenke’s lack of soccer acumen but, surprisingly, Arsenal became good again and that reason lost relevance. As the new season begins (we have one point through two matches), my current excuse for staying away from the Rapids is, to paraphrase Bajan cricket fans from back in the day: no Cummings, no goings” – R Reisman.

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