Savo Milosevic never made the grade at Aston Villa, but David Wangerin thinks he didn't have a fair crack of the whip

This was the season Savo Milosevic was supposed to come of age, the year Brian Little’s most obscure signing stepped forward and justified his manager’s faith in him. Needless to say it didn’t happen, and as I write Savo seems to have kicked his last ball, or tuft of grass, or cubic metre of air, for Aston Villa. Few players can expect much else after spitting at their own supporters.

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Former police commissioner Sir John Smith was asked by the FA to look into football's values after the colourful financial events of recent years.  Martin Le Jeune, who assisted with the report, explains why we should take it seriously

Betting, bungs, bribes… there have been times in the past few months when football’s financial dealings might as well have come straight out of a business studies course taught by Del Boy Trotter and Arthur Daley.

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Television deals are becoming increasingly important in the modern game. Roger Titford explains the latest agreement that will determine how we view football

More evidence of football’s growing importance as the new national religion arrives: the left-wing, oops sorry, independent, think tank Demos have published a pamphlet arguing that price controls should be imposed on Sky TV by a newly-created Office for Regulating the Broadcasting of Sport (ORBS?).

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David Pendleton examines Geoffrey Richmond's unglamorous rags to riches tale

Habitat A self made man. Bought Ronson Lighters when they were insolvent, turned the company around and sold it for £10m plus. Now being the Chairman of Bradford City is his full time occupation, he is always first to enter the building and last to leave. Opens all the mail, occasionally answers the phones and has been known to work in the ticket office. Hands-on is an inadequate term.

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Dublin has been mentioned as Wimbledon's next home, but Mike Ticher warns that the club have a lot to lose if they move to Ireland

Jean-Louis Dupont, the lawyer who won the Bosman case, obviously thinks he knows a thing or two. A thing or two more than UEFA, maybe, but it would be foolish to get overly pleased with yourself about that. And the news that he has been hired by Wimbledon to further their bid to move to Dublin has only added to the apparently unstoppable flow of guff eman-ating from the Dons’ corner on their plight.

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