It would make Premier League footballers weep with envy.
From pitch level, I watched Daniel Sturridge and Michael Johnson make Premier League debuts, convinced that one day I'd be out there too.
"When you're dead, you're dead," said Burl Sousa, 85, of Medford, Ore ."What difference does it make?" Premier will set aside $50,000 for refunds.
Neither of this duo would have glanced twice at Scotland when looking to make Premier League inroads not so long ago.
Lewis Cook already looks a good prospect in central midfield, and young defenders Baily Cargill and Matt Butcher could make Premier League debuts.
The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, dismisses talk of the Premier League damaging the national team as "absolute nonsense", yet his own organisation's figures reveal that 43 homegrown Under-21s made Premier League first-team appearances in 2011-12.
After the death of Orléans in December 1723, Condé, as the eldest prince of the blood, was made premier ministre ("first minister"), but he remained under the influence of his mistress.
"Over the last two decades our clubs have worked tirelessly to make Premier League grounds more welcoming and are striving to deliver a first-rate experience for all fans.
The House of Lords passed a bill recently to make Premier League football clubs devote a small proportion of their vast resources to making the necessary changes to their grounds.
The hope of the likes of Henry's Fenway Sports Group and Kroenke Sports Enterprises is that Uefa's new financial fair play rules will make Premier League football a little less of a gamble.
The manager had made Premier League survival the priority and even in the heady aftermath of possibly the best result for the club since the Graham Taylor years, he repeated the call to "stick to the plan".
