The unit is home to prisoners including Robert Stewart, a racist who murdered his cellmate, Zahid Mubarek, at Feltham young offenders’ institution in west London. And it has hosted the serial hostage-taker Charles Bronson, who is now at Woodhill’s sister unit in Durham.The standard Prison Service magnolia walls have been repainted yellow and the cell doors orange. Beige and royal blue carpets have been fitted over linoleum floors. Prisoners, who once could only pace around a bare exercise yard, now have access to a gym with modern fitness equipment and one-to-one training from staff.Bob Mullen, the governor of Woodhill, said the changes had reduced violence towards staff and prisoners.

Only five assaults have occurred in the past 14 months, compared with daily attacks shortly after the unit opened in 1998.The philosophy also involves trying to engage with the inmates, who now receive an average of 23 hours’ education, training and therapy a week, compared with only 90 minutes a week a year ago. The revamp has come after criticisms of its harsh regime by Stephen Shaw, the prisons ombudsman, and Sir David Ramsbotham, the former chief inspector of prisoners. Many prisoners have severe mental health problems, and two psychiatric nurses are to be appointed to work with them.Mr Mullen said: “If you had said to me three months ago that we would have televisions in cells I would have been astounded. This is nothing to do with appeasement, it’s to do with the whole rearrangement of the unit.

Examples included the act of “doing a Delia”, used when Sophia Loren published a cookery book, “a Delia dish”, “Delia power”, and the “anti-Delia, anti-Aga backlash”. Charlie Dimmock was also described as the “Delia of gardening”. According to Collins, “Delia” was one of the most frequently used “individual name checks” in the English language.Ms Smith had already appeared in the dictionary under a biographical entry but Jeremy Butterfield, editor of the volume, said her second entry was unique in the 2,000-page book as a new generic name.It is an indicator of the scale of success achieved by the millionaire who got an insight into the food business first as a dishwasher and then as a waitress.After selling 14 million books, the Ms Smith was quietly pleased with the latest work to carry her name. “Getting a definition in a dictionary is not bad for someone who can’t spell,” she said.. The Brazilian son of the ailing former fugitive Ronnie Biggs lost his appeal on Monday for permission to remain in Britain. He says he is the only person who can communicate with his father, who speaks in grunts.Immigration officials told the tribunal there was nothing to stop the younger Biggs from briefly leaving the country and applying for a fresh visitor’s visa on his return. In giving himself up to British officials, Ronnie Biggs would have known his family life would be disrupted, they said.After the tribunal ruling, Michael Biggs broke down in tears and said he will appeal “I’m absolutely devastated.

I think this is so cruel,” he told reporters.His lawyer, Alison Stanley, said he did not plan to settle in Britain, but would ultimately return to Brazil to be with his partner and 1–year–old daughter.”Both the father and son knew Ronnie Biggs would be returned to custody but this is a very unusual case and they both thought compassion would be exercised,” she said. “There is never ever going to be another Great Train Robber with a foreign son.”Michael Biggs traveled with his father to Britain in May but is not entitled to British citizenship because his father never married his Brazilian mother.. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, is preparing to warn the Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, to bring defiant Tory peers into line if they prevent the anti-terror law becoming law before Christmas. He is frustrated by the efforts of peers to change the legislation and abolish clauses, such as making inciting religious hatred an offence. The House of Lords is poised to deal further defeats on the emergency legislation this week.Home Office sources said last night they were happy to look at “minor amendments” but were not prepared to make any significant concessions to peers. Lord Rooker, the Home Office minister, is expected to tell the Upper House the Privy Council will re-examine the anti-terrorism provisions after 15 months.

Detection is down to 24 per cent and conviction is down to nine per cent.” He will announce an extra 5,400 uniformed officers by spring 2003 and the addition of hundreds more civilian staff, including secretaries, to help police work through mountains of paperwork. A new breed of “super-bobbies” will be paid a bonus of £3,000 to stay on the beat. Mr Blunkett plans to bring in managers to run failing police units to instil “new thinking”. The reforms will allow the Home Office Standards Unit and Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary to take over the worst police units.

“There is a big missing factor on the liberal left and that is that we have forgotten crime and disorder and the misery that this brings,” said Mr Blunkett.”We have often quite rightly talked about education, health and the minimum wage. But we haven’t said the thing that really bedevils people in the most disadvantaged areas is crime.”A top priority for the Home Secretary will be to tackle the discrepancy in detection rates across the country but Mr Blunkett’s reforms are likely to put him on a collision course with senior police officers.. The four delegations to the Bonn talks on Afghanistan were haggling over the names of the country’s future transitional rulers today as they picked through a final document submitted by the United Nations as the basis for an agreement. One name put foward as the potential head of the administration was that of Abdul Sattar Sirat, a former justice minister and aide to ex-king Zahir Shah, who was backed by the Northern Alliance and the royalist Rome group.While the existence of a document represented the most concrete progress towards accord observed for several days, Ahmad Fawzi, a UN spokesman, stressed that much work remained to be done. “We’re not there yet,” he insisted, taking it for granted that the talks would stretch into a seventh day and perhaps beyond.They opened on a wave of euphoria and optimism on Tuesday last week, with all sides gratified that everyone invited had turned up. As the days of talking have ground on, however, the size of the task has become apparent.

Backed by a huge grass roots drive in the community, the team began to attract good crowds to Vicarage Road, but when they lost more than they won and the glamour signings weren’t playing, fairweather supporters stayed at home.This season Pienaar’s man management style came under scrutiny when Tony Diprose, Dan Luger, Danny Grewcock and Julian White left. “They all wanted to stay,” Pienaar said, “but could we afford to keep internationals that we knew we would lose at regular intervals during the season?” Unrest grew with supporters attacking Pienaar on the club’s website.Last week he flew to Japan to arrange a 10-day pre-season tour for Saracens in the summer, met Wray on his return and announced his resignation on Friday. Wray said he could stay on as chief executive.”If I was acting selfishly this wouldn’t be my course of action,” Pienaar said “It was a difficult decision. There have been a lot of rumours and I wanted to put an end to them I love the job but we now have time to do the right thing I’ve worked my butt off…

maybe too much.” Following the resignation of Harry Viljoen, the Springboks are looking for a coach but the deadline for applications has passed and Pienaar’s name is not in the hat. “I’ve still got a lot of work to do here and when that’s done that’s it. I hope to stay in rugby.” Pienaar has a house in Cape Town and will move there in the summer.The great Enfield experiment has stalled. Apart from winning the national knockout cup, Wray has little to show for his £6m investment and is reluctant to put in any more of his own money.

As for Pienaar, it has been a strange journey from Ellis Park to Bramley Road. When he told Saracens his motto would be “losing is not an option”, they almost laughed He wouldn’t have got that reaction in the old Transvaal.. The computer says that England are now the best rugby team in the world. No one at Twickenham yesterday needed any artificial confirmation of the fact. For an hour, England were untouchable, so far ahead of the Irish in thought and deed that the score threatened to stray into the realms of embarrassment. In the end, the scoreboard read England 45 Ireland 11, but that did not tell the full story of the match, which was effectively ended by four tries in 20 minutes before half-time.

Forced to defend from virtually everywhere, Ireland simply ran out of personnel.They had to keep an eye on either the effervescent Kyran Bracken or Wilkinson or Will Greenwood. Then there were Jason Robinson and Austin Healey to think about There was no let-up, no escape. The key was not just England’s fast, crisp handling but their willingness and ability to keep the ball alive. In this regard Wilkinson and Co were aided and abetted by the forwards, in particular Ben Kay and the remarkable Steve Thompson. The hooker was so conspicuous that Ireland might have thought they were facing the Thompson twins.”Losing at Lansdowne Road was a big dent to our pride,” Greenwood, who scored two of England’s six tries, said “It was very important to put the record straight. It was a delight to be on the field for the first 40 minutes. It was also a pleasure to play outside Wilkinson, who is so proud, intense and physical.”So proud that the stand-off was mortified to be replaced in the 79th minute, by which time the fireworks had subsided and Ireland were given the opportunity to make an impression.Geordan Murphy was denied a possible try by Ben Cohen’s defensive work in the fifth minute but was injured in the process and took no further part.

David Humphreys kicked Ireland into the lead with a penalty in the eighth minute, Wilkinson responding two minutes later.The first indication of England’s intention came when Wilkinson beat David Wallace and Greenwood and Thompson could have sent in Kay but the lock lost possession. Cohen, given an overlap on the left, hesitated and then lost the ball as he dived over the line, but a minute later made amends when he kept the ball in play. When England switched the attack to the left flank, Kay and Thompson linked and the latter delivered an inside pass to Wilkinson, who went over unopposed at the posts. Humphreys was in no position to mark his opposite number because he had been forced to tackle Thompson.Two minutes later, in the 24th minute, Cohen rounded off an even more audacious attack with a copybook try.

Fielding the ball just outside his own 22, Healey broke down the middle, Bracken and Mike Tindall maintained the move and Cohen finished it off in style.Ireland could not even gain possession from the re-start, such was the accuracy of Wilkinson’s kicking. England were now in full cry and although Humphreys landed a penalty in the 28th minute, it was merely a semi-colon to the poetry in motion. The Irish defence were again torn asunder when Thompson and Cohen combined in another slick attack which resulted in Greenwood going over unopposed. A couple of minutes later, Wilkinson, with a marvellous chip, unleashed Healey, who, in a dash to the line, shrugged off Girvan Dempsey and Brian O’Driscoll, but was caught by Denis Hickie as he was in the process of touching down. The video official made a correct call in disallowing the score and in the 39th minute, he had an easier task deciding that Joe Worsley had crossed the line before his feet went into touch.Twenty-five points adrift, Ireland trooped off at half-time in shock. Four minutes into the second half, Wilkinson again bamboozled the defence with an electric inside pass to Kay, who dived over at the post, knocking Humphreys over in the process.

More suffering for the Welsh. On both occasions, the answer was negative, but both were so close that you had to sympathise with Wales for coming so agonisingly near to compensating the nation for recent failures.You could not argue with those particular decisions and, perhaps, on balance France deserved their victory but no one could dispute the vast improvement in Wales’s performance and the promise it contained that their slump has bottomed out.France have to admit that they had the enormous boost of a try that never was. When Aur?en Rougerie went over early in the second half he clearly touched the ball down before the tryline. I cannot understand how the Italian video official thought that it was a try.Coming at that stage of the game it was a body blow to Wales, who were already without their skipper, Scott Quinnell, after he had been sin-binned for a late tackle I have no quarrel with that decision. Scott was frustrated but there is no excuse for losing discipline in the way he did.

His absence, plus the bad decision over the Rougerie try, were the turning points of the match.They put Wales 31-19 down and placed them at the foot of what looked to be an unclimbable mountain. But anyone who thought that Welsh heads would go down would have been pleasantly surprised at the way they fought their way back into the game.It was not easy because the French put a stranglehold on the game and controlled possession and territory so confidently. There did not seem to be any way that Wales could claw their way back, but they did so in a manner that made their pathetic display against Ireland seem a distant memory.Nathan Budgett’s try brought them within eight points and gave them the hope to mount their late offensive. I don’t think Budgett touched the ball down properly but the referee did not offer that particular decision to the video official – just as well.It set up a finale that eventually ended in disappointment but the very thought that Wales had come so close to winning might have been enough to send the fans home happy.There were reminders of Welsh weaknesses when France were building up their first-half lead. The first of Tony Marsh’s tries betrayed a lack of understanding in a back line that has not played together before. They didn’t come up together and left a gate for the prop to go through to set up the gap that Marsh exploited easily.

For the second try, they put width on the move and Raphael Ibanez came through to create the space that Marsh needed.But you have to recognise the positives. There were no outstanding Welsh performances but they performed very much as a team determined to make their mark.Andy Marinos played well, showing good vision and an ability to get over the advantage line. His execution was not all it should have been but he looked more comfortable as the game went on.The caretaker coach, Steve Hansen, has every reason to be content with the progress he has made in less than two weeks after taking over from Graham Henry. And with two weeks to prepare his team to meet Italy he can be confident of getting them in better shape He still has a few more cards to play. I would like to see Colin Charvis come back into the reckoning in the back row and there’s also room for Gareth Thomas to get back in.I am not sure there is time for Wales to improve enough to go and play England at Twickenham with any realistic hopes but they have to forget lofty ambitions and concentrate on continuing basic improvements.As for France, they are capable of beating England in Paris in two weeks time. England are not easy for anyone but France will go home from Wales today with a growing confidence that they can stop their Grand Slam aims.. Buried deep under the dire Davis Cup happenings of last weekend in Birmingham was a nugget.

Not far away, in Nottingham, Britain’s Alex Bogdanovich won a Futures tournament Alex is 17 and our top junior. He got into the event as a wild card and it was his first senior title. Certainly Bogdanovich, as well as being a friendly, unassuming teenager, possesses high talent, ambition and determination.A latecomer to the game, he recently beat two of our Davis Cup squad, Martin Lee and Arvind Parmar, and was runner-up to Lee Childs at the national championships last November. Lee, of course, was a world junior number one, while another Briton, Jamie Delgado, won the Orange Bowl at 14. Neither has kicked on, while Henman, nothing much as a junior, blossomed on the senior satellite circuits.So Bogdanovich is treading carefully, if with confidence. His steps are guided by the Lawn Tennis Association’s shrewd Argentinian coach, Tito Vasquez, who calls Alex “one of the most talented players I have seen anywhere in the world”.

The Scotsman said: “We can’t really expect to compete for a win yet. The best I can hope for is the podium.”Coulthard has become embroiled in a running battle with Renault’s Jenson Button, although the Englishman was a subdued 14th yesterday. Button admitted: “I had a difficult time, struggling with the balance, which is something we need to work on. I have to wait for the next practice sessions to try out what we hope will be the answers to our difficulties.”Team principals again met yesterday to discuss, among other matters, the thorny subject of cost-cutting. Some have demanded drastic action to ensure other teams do not go out of business, as Prost did.However, Niki Lauda, head of Jaguar, argued that more prudent management of budgets could save millions.

The Austrian is trimming “unnecessary” expenditure and channelling the additional funds into the development of the car. Walker’s two goals gave Leeds a lead that had looked unlikely a few minutes earlier.Ryan McDonald continued the good work after the break, using his size to force his way over the line and Leeds were in a winning position when Tonie Carroll surged over from a scrum soon after.Bradford could not get going, although their coach Brian Noble, refused to blame the virus that had swept through the camp during the week. “You can’t play rugby league if you keep giving the ball away,” he said. “We weren’t very smart in the second half and we didn’t show any patience or composure.”The Bulls did repair some of the damage when Robbie Paul dummied one way and darted the other to cut the margin to eight points, but two more goals from Walker kept them in control and Stuart Fielden’s late try could not swing it back in Bradford’s direction.Powell could reflect on an experiment that had worked perfectly: now he has to decide whether to persist with it.”It shows it was not a one-off,” he said.

“We have been criticised for not beating the top teams but I think we’ve made a few critics eat their words tonight.”I think Ben will be an outstanding full-back but whether we do it consistently, I don’t know.Leeds Rhinos: B Walker; Calderwood, Carroll, Senior, Cummins; Sinfield, Sheridan; Ward, Diskin, Barrie McDermott, Hay, Adamson, Vowles. Substitutes used: Burrow, Poching, Jones-Buchanan, McDonald.Bradford Bulls: Withers; Vaikona, Costin, Gilmour, Vainikolo; Paul, Deacon; Vagana, Lowes, Brian McDermott Peacock, Gartner, Forshaw. Substitutes used: Pryce, Anderson, McAvoy, Fielden.Referee: R Smith (Castleford).. Love them or loathe them – and right now, the good rugby folk of Rotherham fall squarely into the latter category – the grandees of the English Premiership are quicker on their feet than a chemically-enhanced David Campese.

In 1982, Londoners would talk nervously about The Front Line; these days they’d probably think The Front Line was a new caf?n All Saints Road. 192’s long-time owners (locals who also founded the Groucho Club) sold up, and amid much nervous speculation from the restaurant’s loyal regulars, it closed for a six-month refurbishment programme.The new owners have impeccable W11 credentials – Tom Byng also runs the Italian restaurant Zucca in Westbourne Grove, and John Summerill owns the kitchenware shop Summerill and Bishop – and, wisely, they have decided to make very few changes to Tchaik Chassay’s original design.There’s a new bar, and vastly improved loos downstairs, but otherwise, it’s as though an identical replica of the original interior has been fabricated out of brand-new materials. The look of relief on the faces of the regulars was unmistakable, as I watched them take up their usual positions on the red-velvet banquettes Arty-looking staff? Check Man with laptop and glass of Champagne at bar? Check Table-hopping producers and agents? Check. And best of all, wherever you sit you can still see the passing show, thanks to an eye-level strip of mirrors which gives even inward-facers a chance to celebrity-spot (while simultaneously exposing a panorama of bald patches and unretouched roots).The menu, from returning 192 graduate Stuart Kennedy, also feels familiar – indeed, anyone looking at its selection of modern British brasserie fare would wonder what the fuss was about. But then warm salads and calves liver with mash weren’t clich?when 192 opened, and its kitchen has long since settled for offering the delectable rather than the directional.With English asparagus and spring lamb appearing alongside pumpkin risotto and wild mushrooms, the menu’s fast-forward approach to the seasons is reminiscent of Hugh Grant’s walk through Portobello Market in the film Notting Hill. The daily date implies flexibility, but the line-up was more or less identical on my two sample visits, which were separated by five days.To road-test the new 192 in authentic conditions, I went first for a networking lunch with a TV producer, then for a celebratory girls’ night out The restaurant performed impeccably in both cases.

The staff still combine friendly individuality with the kind of stakeholder ethic which implies they care as much as you that you’re having a good time. The room still heaves with movers and shakers, talking big and smoking bigger. Plenty of wines are available by the glass, from a wide-ranging list. And the food is as fresh and interesting as it ever was, and seems to arrive rather more quickly – the expanded kitchen obviously works efficiently.Of the dishes I tried, crab ravioli with sauce vierge was a partial success, the delicate oriental flavouring of the crabmeat proving no match for a sharply vinegared sauce.

Seared scallops were much more subtly paired with cauliflower pur?and a flourish of mini-tomatoes roasted on the vine.Main courses struck me as cheffier in presentation than before – a cappuccino-frothed sauce of indeterminate taste accompanied both the main course fish dishes I tried. A hefty tranche of roast cod looked fabulous in its vividly green herb crust, while wild seabass came with lightly-spiced Puy lentils and was so hot it might have jumped straight from pan to table.A whole maple-roasted apple, filled with chopped figs and pecans, was good enough to overturn a lifetime’s school-dinners-induced dread of the slithery baked apple.192’s prices were always a little lower than expected, and they don’t seem to have been hiked; main courses range from £12 to £15, and the lunchtime set menu is £14.50 for three courses.A note at the foot of the menu asks diners to “refrain from smoking pipes, cigars or cigarillos”. Cigarillos! What could be more evocative of that loucher, more permissive age which 192 still epitomises? Notting Hill’s ageing bohemians may be finding themselves eased out in their turn by the young, rich and fashionable, whose restaurant of choice, E&O, is just down the road. But for anyone old enough to know what a cigarillo is, let alone wanting to smoke one, 192 looks set to be around for some time to come.192 Kensington Park Road, London W11 (020-7229 0482).. Asparagus from Peru, the States and Spain is now available almost all year round. But the English variety, like our sunshine, is never here for long. The season’s now about halfway through and our home-grown, vivid green shoots will be available until the end of the month.

You watch – I’ve got big plans in the future.”The restaurant upstairs is a very separate space, with heavy velvet curtains to draw round the revelry downstairs It has a buzz of its own. The general manager was halfway through calling it “Pacific-Rim-pan-fusion” when I blacked out I came to as he was finishing the list of adjectives I would recommend the ostrich from the central grill area. And the chocolate mousse with a glass of a Tokay Aszu 5 Puttonyos. Only because Eddie’s wheat beer wasn’t on the menu.Eddie looks like a Viking, which makes sense – in Valhalla, the Norse paradise, they entertained the dead with ale from the udders of a goat. I know it’s against current health and hygiene regulations, but Eddie would be prepared to make an exception if the goat ale was hoppy enough.In Ancient Egypt, Pharaohs were buried with miniature wooden brewers to ensure a regular supply of beer on the journey to the afterworld For early mankind, beer was a staple.

A valuable source of protein and vitamins, it was significant in ensuring our survival as a species. Deep within the rain forest, you can still see people who brew beer the old-fashioned way. They chew cereal grains, allowing the enzyme ptyalin in their saliva to convert the starches into sugars. They then spit the resulting “mash” into clay pots to begin the fermentation.

So is it just Britain that undervalues the science of brewing?Teach them early. I started young, with ready-salted crisps to cleanse my palate. In Belgium, an organisation called Limburg Beer Friends is conducting tests to see if eight-year-old schoolchildren like beer in with their lunchboxes. It’s designed to help them cut back on their intake of sweetened drinks But it’s also good for them to learn to drink moderately. Only then will they know the truth – drinking beer really won’t help you date the American beach volleyball team.Pacific Oriental, 1 Bishopsgate, London EC2 (020-7929 7117).. Shields to cut mobile phone radiation can work but some of the devices whose benefits are often described in quasi-scientific language do not, experts say. Tests on three of the varieties on the market found that “none of the devices are very effective in reducing” the radiation that reaches the head, also known as the “specific absorption rate” (SAR).The report found that hands-free kits “greatly reduced” SAR to the head – but it warned: “The phone should not be placed in contact with other parts of the body.

The clubs in the other three divisions and, sadly, too few other major football figures bitterly opposed the breakaway on the grounds that it was sure to consolidate money and, therefore, footballing success and power, in the hands of a few big clubs.Since then, apart from Blackburn’s brief, nouveau riche championship in 1995, only Manchester United and Arsenal have won the Premier League. They have now also done the Double five times – on average, every other season. That is as many Doubles in the last 10 years as in the whole of football’s history previously. Preston North End’s “Invincibles” won the League in 1888-89, the inaugural Football League season, which featured only 12 clubs, Aston Villa, in 1897, were champions of only 16. Since 1905, when the First Division was expanded to 20 clubs, to 1992 – 87 years – only three clubs achieved it: Tottenham in 1961, Arsenal in 1971, and Liverpool in 1986, at the peak of their domestic dominance under their player-manager, Kenny Dalglish.
In the FA Cup, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea have won every final since 1992, except for 1995, when Paul Rideout’s header saw Everton beat United. Apart from Blackburn’s Premiership win, bankrolled by Jack Walker, Manchester United have won the Premiership seven times, Arsenal twice.

Arsenal did the Double both times, 1998 and this season, while United did it in 1994, ‘96 and ‘99, when they also took the European Cup.Dan Johnson, a Premier League spokesman, was at pains following Arsenal’s triumph to stress the hard work, excellent management and forward planning which has produced their success. “The top clubs are emulating Manchester United’s achievement of building strong foundations for success, developing young players in academies, and looking to the future It’s best practice, which we’re encouraging. The days of being able to buy the title are over.”But while nobody can question the skills that the Arsenal manager, Ars? Wenger, has applied to his team’s management, or the supreme footballing ability of his players, it flies contrary to all the evidence to suggest that money is not now the principal factor which determines who can achieve success. Tony Adams may have graduated from their youth system back in 1984, but Arsenal could also afford last summer to pay Tottenham £10m for Sol Campbell. Alongside other multi-million pound stars, one which lends perspective is the £6.8m signing of Richard Wright, Ipswich’s goalkeeper, as, effectively, an understudy to David Seaman.Year after year, wealth is becoming concentrated in the hands of the few biggest clubs. Before 1992, the Football League had maintained a philosophy and practice of sharing money with rough equality to try to maintain competition.

Its £44m deal with ITV was distributed 50 per cent to First Division clubs, 25 per cent to those in the Second, 25 to the Third and Fourth.Since the breakaway, television income has multiplied beyond imagining: £305m in 1992, followed by £670m in 1997, then the current £1.6bn for three years from 2001, a total, in TV money alone, to only 20 clubs, of £2.57bn. The Football League’s relatively thin gruel for the other 72 has now dissolved to nothing following the collapse of ITV Digital, although League officials believe they will be able to sell their rights to other broadcasters for upwards of £35m per yearOf the Premier League’s money, nothing significant was shared until 1997, when they agreed to pay £20m over four years, matched by the Lottery, to Football League clubs to fund youth development programmes That money is now under review. Some £17m, around 2.5 per cent, is to be paid to the Professional Footballers’ Association and five per cent to the Football Foundation to rebuild public football facilities which have continued to rot throughout football’s years of boom.In other words, over 90 per cent of the Premier League’s money is shared between its 20 member clubs. ITV Digital’s collapse only emphasises the chasm already yawning between football’s haves and have-nots: four Football League clubs – Queen’s Park Rangers, Bury, Lincoln, Swindon – are already in administration and many more could soon join them.Yet, even within the Premier League, inequality between the clubs is institutionalised. From the beginning, TV money has been paid in three ways: half equally to all clubs, a quarter according to where clubs finish in the League, the other quarter to clubs each time they are featured live on Sky TV. This further concentrates wealth: successful clubs are rewarded by being paid more, and so can become more successful. Up to the huge 1997 deal, the differences this produced were not so great, but since then they have become almost insurmountable.In 1997-98, Arsenal, who won the League, were paid £9.7m in TV money Crystal Palace, who finished bottom, received £4.35m.