The Football League (FL) is to adopt its own set of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. This follows on from UEFA’s regulations which have effectively come into force this season. Various workshops were run over the summer for FL clubs to discuss what UEFA had done and to address a number of questions the FL clubs needed to consider when adopting its own set of the FFP rules(1).

A few interesting issues take shape as a result of the FL’s FFP announcement, and below are a number of talking points to consider.

After many months of planning and negotiations, a website has been set up based on a scheme under the umbrella of Supporters Direct, under the slogan: "Securing the Future of Everton FC for the current and future generations of Evertonians."

Philip Scott and Graham Sizer’s £50,000 offer is conditional on Darlington FC Supporters Trust matching it by investing the money that was raised by fans and townspeople when the club was in administration in 2003.

The businessmen, whose company Darlington Arena Limited owns The Northern Echo Arena, will also enter talks with the local council’s senior officers today over relaxing the planning constraints on the stadium site.