The Premier League's wealthiest club Manchester City are agitating over the introduction of Financial Fair Play regulations due to be voted into the statute book on Thursday.
City are still lobbying strongly for more teams to back their opposition to wage restraints and the cap on club losses which were accepted by the narrowest allowed of Premier League ballot margins, with the detail to be agreed this week.
A secret gathering of six opposing clubs - City, West Brom, Southampton, Aston Villa, Fulham and Reading - took place at Watford's Grove Hotel just before Easter to discuss battleplans.
And City chief executive Ferran Soriano, who has kept a low profile since arriving at the Etihad Stadium last September, has been chasing backing for his club's stance.
Although no legal action was discussed at the Grove, money-no-object City remain the club most likely to challenge FFP restrictions through the courts over restraint of trade.
BBC Sport have chosen a safer pair of hands than Michael Vaughan as greenside reporter at the Masters golf this week following the former England cricket captain's 'schoolboy error' question to Tiger Woods last year.
Vaughan told Woods that he had won three previous Masters to which he replied 'Four, actually'.
To compound the error, busy Vaughan had to leave the Masters before the end. This gave the impression the Beeb had stood him down, which wasn't the case.
Vaughan hasn't made the cut this year, with BBC giving the interviewing job to freelance sports broadcaster Rishi Persad, who was part of the Channel 4 team at the Grand National. Persad, who will be employed in the same way at the Open, impressed Beeb bosses at the Ryder Cup. Right wing Tory MP Philip Davies, former bookmaker and keen horse racing fan, has the Bingley stable of Grand National winner Auroras Encore in his Shipley constituency in Yorkshire.
But Davies, a guest of Channel 4 at Aintree, neither backed the horse nor made mention of it.
Davies had to apologise for breaching the parliamentary code when not declaring £870-worth of hospitality from Ladbrokes at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival before questioning the betting company's CEO Richard Glynn during a select committee gambling inquiry.
It might have been the beginning of the end for Martin O'Neill when unimpressed Sunderland directors attended a recent reception for sponsors.
The deposed manager, who spent £30million on signings last summer, told his audience that the playing squad was physically the weakest he had ever managed.
Successor Paolo Di Canio's new rules include Sunderland players having lunch together at the training ground on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when mobile phones will be banned.
