Football Daily | Welcome to Swansea: Luka Modric joins the top table of celebrity Jacks

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With bitter rivals Cardiff in the Championship drop zone and their club comfortably ensconced in mid-table after three wins put paid to any lingering relegation concerns, Swansea City fans could have been forgiven for being delighted even before news broke that Luka Modric had become a minority shareholder in their club. While he may lack the Hollywood glamour of Catherine Zeta-Jones and the comedy chops of podcasting’s Elis James, by investing in the Welsh club the Real Madrid and Croatia legend has immediately catapulted himself into a VIP place at the top table of celebrity Jacks.Your lead piece about the Premier League’s end-of-season whimper (yesterday’s Football Daily) should not cause fans to lose heart. As Liverpool sleepwalk towards their 20th crown, simply cast your eyes down a little to the battle atop the Championship. Four games to go … Leeds and Burnley both on 88 points … Sheffield United ‘wobbling’ a-la Forest in third place as demonstrated by their defeat at bottom club Plymouth the other day … the playoffs to come … and lo!! The relegation battle is also not yet a fait accompli. Football lives!” – Allastair McGillivray.Watching Vítor Pereira bringing the vibes to a Wolverhampton Wetherspoons (yesterday’s Quote of the Day) brought a surge of warmth and some unexpected dust to my cynical and jaded eyes. Could he be the man to fill the Jürgen Klopp (early years)-shaped hole in British football culture? God knows the Premier League could do with someone to remind them of the humanity that forms the basis of its ‘world leading’ product” – Andrew Parker.It’s interesting to see that West Ham are just one place above the relegation zone (scroll down). Apropos of nothing, David Moyes’s win ratio there was 46% (compared with Julen Lopetegui’s 32% and Graham Potter’s 23%). With every week that passes, I think back to this Big Website piece” – Noble Francis.Re: yesterday’s Football Daily letters. Let’s stop messing around. I’d like to propose a 512-team men’s World Cup: 211 nations, plus 211 ‘league’ teams made up of players playing in the league of each nation (picking after the national squads have chosen theirs), plus 50 B squads from the top 50 nations picking third, then 50 under-21s picking last. Straight knockout, one country hosting, no seeding, two matches at any one time, played over a 16-hour day. If we’re going to gorge ourselves and knacker out all the players, let’s do it properly. It would be carnage. Come on Gianni, pull your finger out” – Tom Fleuriot.This is an extract from our daily football email … Football Daily. To get the full version, just visit this page and follow the instructions. Continue reading...

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