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SIMON JORDAN: There is often disagreement and a difference of opinion in fan bases, but Chelsea's real life is something else. I've never seen a club turn on itself due to the fact that the owners spent over £1 billion on new players. Normally it's the other way round! The Chelsea Supporters Trust has written a ridiculous letter warning everyone that they will create a toxic atmosphere and a whole list of ridiculous requests.

SIMON JONES: It has been described as 'the ghost window.' Profit and Sustainability laws loom large in the UK, causing fear among those who dare to spend beyond their means. To put it into perspective, Premier League clubs spent an unprecedented £815 million last January. The spendingometer hasn't even touched £40 million on Thursday, with a week to go before the winter transfer window closes. It's enough to make Jim White's yellow tie fade to black.

OLIVER HOLT: Ibrahima Konate's arm brushed Bruno Fernandes on the chest in the 72nd minute of Manchester United's humiliating 7-0 loss to Liverpool at Anfield last March. Fernandes collapsed to the ground as if he had been shot and covered his face with both hands, the better to tell us where the bullet had struck him down. Fernandes' cheating did not have the intended result of getting Konate dismissed, but it did bring Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who is marginally sorry for the United skipper, to the club's attention, and that he will buy a minority interest in the club and assume some responsibility for footballing concerns at Old Trafford. Ratcliffe illustrated the very opposite of the traits he admired in sportsmen in a new book. He recalled Bruno Fernandes clutching his unoccupied face in the Liverpool debacle recently as a counterpoint to a particularly unyielding rugby match he had seen.

SIMON JORDAN: There is no doubt that what goes on at the top of the professional game also extends to grassroots levels. However, I'm not positive I see the connection between Premier League executives behaving poorly on the touchline and some of the more bizarre events that happen in amateur football. I listened to Chris Sutton and Ian Ladyman's latest It's All Kicking Off podcast and the harrowing accounts of referees being physically assaulted and threatened. On our talkSport show, Jim White and I have shared similar experiences, indicating that it is clearly a serious problem that needs to be addressed. The question is: how?

Exclusive INTERVIEW BY IAN LADYMAN: Jim White was on Wembley earlier this year and was serving as a host for the Football League's final match between Manchester United and Newcastle. Avram Glazer, the country's owner, stepped inside and got a familiar instinct. 'I just wanted to get my phone out and get some quotes from him,' says White. "I could have stayed this morning," Avram Glazer says to us. Avram are you in the last days of your ownership?" However, I was there for the EFL.' So I couldn't, sorry. It wouldn't have been right. However, a part of me believes it would have been worth it to be kicked out for.'

MATT HUGHES: For the first time since issuing the tender for the next cycle of live domestic games from 2025 next month, the Premier League is expected to give TV companies a four-year contract. With current rights holders Sky Sports and TNT Sport all eager to buy more matches, the addition of an extra 12 months to what had been a three-year deal is expected to be popular with broadcasters. The Premier League's decision reflected their desire for greater stability and greater financial stability at a time of uncertainty in the broadcast market, with incumbents Sky and TNT expected to dominate the majority of the matches on offer.

With a transfer deadline approaching on Friday, few people have greater insight into what it takes to remain at the forefront of all the action than former Sky Sports presenter Jim White. The 66-year-old spent 23 years at Sky, where he became known for his brilliant yellow tie and presenting on deadline day. The Scot was featured in Mail Sport's Transfer News Live 48-hour stream ahead of Friday's deadline, sharing some of his fondest memories of deadline day over the years, having covered at least 44 iterations himself.

BY TIM NICHOLS: It was a phone call from his brother that changed everything for Simon Jordan. This was the result of a conversation that brought a sequence of events that led him to this interview. It's an unusual one for the sports pages because he isn't here alone; he's with his surgeon. The man who saved his life. And now, after'substantial surgery,' the former Crystal Palace owner has something important to say - and he's not afraid to admit it. Jordan is recovering from prostate cancer, and with his surgeon Ben Challacombe (pictured right), he is speaking openly about a subject that will concern every family affected by cancer.

On talkSPORT, Jordan, who owned Premier League Palace for a decade and was once one of football's youngest chairsmen, spoke out about his health scare. The pundit had been on the station for several weeks, but he returned on Tuesday morning to openly discuss the reasons behind his absence. He also pleaded with men to be tested and admitted that he was only checked over after a chat with a friend.

During a tense radio debate on Monday afternoon, Peterborough owner Darragh MacAnthony clashed with Forest Green Rovers chairman and Just Stop Oil contributor Dale Vince. As the Peterborough owner told Vince, who runs a vegan only setting at Forest Green, he is 'donating to a load of idiots,' the two went back and forth as their differences in viewpoints threaten to boil.

In a brutal analysis by Simon Jordan, Manchester United winger Antony has been described as "£90 million worth of c***." In a £85.5 million contract with Ajax last summer, the 23-year-old winger joined the Red Devils. Although there were glimpses of promise from the Brazilian international during his debut season, it was still an underwhelming campaign, with only four Premier League goals in 25 appearances.

Chelsea's owners, according to TalkSPORT host Jim White, have defended the dressing-down they gave to players following Chelsea's 2-1 loss to Brighton. Chelsea's stars' season was 'embarrassing,' as Todd Boehly said after being'selected out' after being'singled out,' as he delivered a letter to Chelsea's players.' Lampard, who has suffered three straight losses since returning to Stamford Bridge as the caretaker boss, must now try to lift spirits for tonight's pivotal Champions League match against Real Madrid.

Simon Jordan, the former chairman of Crystal Palace and award-winning broadcaster, has been appointed as the Mail's next weekly columnist. On Wednesday evening, Jordan's inaugural column will be published in the Mail's digital portfolio, and then every Thursday in the Daily Mail. On MailOnline, you will read his first column TONIGHT at 6 p.m.

Simon Jordan didn't think the Premier League would have the balls' to sue Manchester City for breaking financial laws, but the governing body has urged the league to'push hard' against the reigning champions. On Monday, Manchester City was charged with breaking the rules more than 100 times in the space of nine seasons, and it could result in a points deduction or even expulsion from the division. If found guilty, Jordan insisted that the 'absolute punishment' for their conduct be issued.

John Yems, the disgraced former manager of Crawley Town, has been disciplined after being barred from football for using racist words against his own players, according to the player's representative, who has since been barred from football after using racist words against his own players. Following Sportsmail's report that a group of Crawley players had protested over their manager's language last April, the 63-year-old was given an 18-month ban early this month, with the League Two club dismissing him the following month and the FA finding him guilty of 12 charges of misconduct. Yems is not a "conscious racist," the FA found in their written reasons for the decision, released on Tuesday, but the charges against him that were upheld by their independent panel remain troubling.

GRAEME SOUNESS: It made me sad and angry that a handful of people acted in disrespect during the minute's silence at a few games this week. Someone has died, as shown by the bottom of the page. A family is in mourning. It happens that it is our Queen. My Queen. A woman who has provided 70 years of selfless service. The supreme example of what it is to be a public servant. I have no claim to be a historian, but I do believe we are talking about the greatest woman to have lived within our shores and without a doubt, and certainly the best Briton ever. You'll explore Winston Churchill's likes, who served in this world so well. However, this woman has been with her country for 70 years. In everything she did, she did faultlessly.

Sinclair, who earned 12 caps for England during his football career, received a lot of flak over a controversial tweet that was released shortly after Buckingham Palace announced the monarch's death at the age of 96 on Thursday. The 49-year-old later took down the tweet and issued a grovelling apology, but his employers talkSPORT had him banned him from doing so. Sinclair channeled his inner Rocky Balboa in the caption on his new post, posting a snapshot of himself as he went out for a run.

After Trevor Sinclair's tense tweet on Thursday, TalkSPORT has suspended him. During Queen Elizabeth II's reign, Sinclair said that 'black and brown' people should not mourn her death because bigotry was allowed to 'thrive.' Sinclair's tweet came just after Buckingham Palace reported Her Majesty the Queen's death at the age of 96 on Thursday. Fans were quick to mock the 49-year-old and called on TalkSPORT to fire the football pundit.

Reece James' confused header back to Edouard Mendy, who sold the Blues goalkeeper short, collided with Jarrod Bowen, who appeared to leave his foot in and drag it over the Senegalese's torso. While playing continued, mendy was now writhing in pain on the ground, and Maxwell Cornet discovered the Hammers' back of the net in stoppage time. However, although West Ham was delighted, Madley was advised by VAR official Jared Gillett to examine the goal's position after some investigation had disallowed the attack.

GRAEME SOUNESS: Pini Zahavi, my colleague, had given me one of his executive box seats for Manchester United's Champions League quarterfinal against Real Madrid. I decided not to attend the game, although United's Brazilian Ronaldo starred and lost 4-3, but I decided to get him and some family members over from Manchester Airport anyway. Abramovich, one of them, sat in my passenger seat and mistook me for the chauffeur. It was when someone looked right in the discussion, that was being carried out in Hebrew from the back seat, that he stopped staring out of the left window and actually turned around to acknowledge me.