All pay would no longer be negotiated with clubs, but paid on a national pay scale with annual pay increments for each player irrespective of merit, and a bizarre minimum pay level for players aged twenty seven and over. There will be four distinct levels within these scales, "journeyman", "half-decent player", "guvnor" and "football genius". Promotion from one level to the next will depend on having spent sufficient hours coaching, doing enough tidying up of the dressing room, and sitting on enough committees.

Administrators and trophy room staff will be paid on the same pay scale, except they won't need apprenticeships so will be able to start four years earlier. Top administrators and trophy room staff will be paid more than any of the players, as after all, they run the place. They will also be members of, and dominate, the PFA.

The old league table system of three points for a win and one point for a draw would be scrapped in favour of a football assessment exercise. All players would have to submit video evidence of their best four goals of the season, and a group of selected players would meet behind closed doors and grade each team on a scale of one to five. Each team can choose not to include certain players if they will bring down their average, in which case the player's career will of course go down the toilet. All funding of teams will be based on this rating.

Coaches and trainers will continually have to go through a coaching quality assessment, where their coaching will be assessed not by other footballers or coaches but by ballet dancers and scuba divers. (Ballet dancing and scuba diving instructors will in turn be assessed by football coaches.)

Footballers' pay would have gone down in real terms since 1981, and down about 30% relative to teachers' pay. Footballers will have to stage a one-day national strike and threaten to boycott the end of season games to get a pay increase that matches inflation for that year.

Liverpool and Manchester United will be paid an extra £31 million on top of what they'd get anyway, as they are the only teams with an international record for excellence. Ostensibly this money will go to give each player individual coaching, but in reality it will go on expensive dinners and subsidised accommodation for players and fans.

Fans will pay a standard annual fee to go to games, irrespective of the number of games they go to, the quality of the view or what team they are seeing. They will pay this fee over a period lasting up to thirty years after their last game. This will be means-tested - not according to their own salary but that of their parents at the time they start going to games.

All players would be put on six-month contracts, with clauses removing their statutory rights to redundancy or to appeal against unfair dismissal. The transfer system will be abolished, as this implies some kind of respect for the value of staff and the contribution they make.

All security staff will be over sixty and incapable of doing anything constructive, except occasional moaning at kids who roller-blade outside the ground. They will of course be paid a pittance.

Footballers' coaches and hotels for away games will become a thing of the past. Players will have to use public transport, and stay in University Halls of Residence when going to away games.

(Is there anything you'd like to get off your chest, Apollo? At all? - Ed)