Football Daily has long believed that no good can come from the prefix “multi”. Multi-storey car parks have been causing spikes in blood pressure ever since City & Suburban Electric Carriage Company opened the first anxiety maze at 6 Denman Street, London, in May 1901. Multiplexes are for watching films that have been dubbed over by some gobby ne’er-do-well crunching on a never-ending bucket of popcorn. Multiperspectivalism looks an interesting concept, sure, but we’re too thick to understand it properly and now we’ve got a headache. And the multiverse? This one not causing you enough misery?

Even this multipronged intro has outstayed its welcome. We could have just said that all connected with Crystal Palace are seeing the downside of football’s increasingly popular multi-club model. Last week, Palace were demoted from Bigger Vase to Tin Pot because Lyon – who are owned by Eagle Football Holdings, the company of Palace’s main shareholder John Textor, although he is in the process of selling his shares and we’re boring ourselves now – are in the same competition. Lyon finished higher in their domestic league, which means Palace are currently wearing a Tin Pot parachute against their will.

Their Bigger Vase place is likely to be taken by Nottingham Forest, whose benevolent concern for the greater good of football motivated them to inform Uefa of a potential breach of regulations by Palace. Forest’s owner Evangelos Marinakis also owns Olympiakos, but that’s different because … look, just click this for all the grown-up stuff. When Football Daily stumbled upon a video interview with Palace’s chairman Steve Parish and saw the quote “one of the great injustices”, our first thought was to wonder why Alan Bates had changed his appearance so drastically. Parish has appealed to Cas – and The Rest is Football, and anyone else who fancies an interview – so this is likely to go on for a while yet.

For a neutral teatime email there’s particular sadness in seeing Palace finish last in the Uefa Multi-Club Loophole Stakes. When they beat Manchester City in the FA Cup final in May, one word was conspicuous by its absence from the immediate post-match analysis: Europe. All that mattered was that Palace had won their first major trophy at the tender age of 119, and gloriously to boot. A Bigger Vase spot was the reward, not the prize. We have sympathy, not least because a Uefa sermon on integrity is almost as hilarious as Bob Mortimer on Would I Lie To You? But this has been on the cards for one club or another since multi-club ownership became English football’s latest money-spinne – sorry, English football’s first opportunity to pioneer and deliver a consistent underlying approach to talent development, fan experiences, sports entertainment, commercial opportunities and community impact. Still, Palace v Forest on 24 August should be fun. No, you silly old romantic, not the football. We want cameras in the boardroom. These days, that’s where the real action is.

Join Sarah Rendell from 8pm BST for MBM coverage of Sweden 2-1 England (aet) in the Euro 2025 quarter-finals.

“It’s soul-destroying. It is two minutes to midnight and it’s just terrifying” – David Freer, a lifelong fan who has commentated on Morecambe games over 12 years for the Football League, on the Shrimps being days from collapse. Amid Jason Whittingham’s ownership, there is a very real possibility they will be banned from playing in the National League, which kicks off in three weeks, and players allowed to leave for nothing if they’re not paid by Friday.

Re: Hamrun Spartans’ shoot-out win over Zalgaris and it being ‘the first time a Maltese side have made it beyond this round, becoming part of football history’ (yesterday’s Football Daily). I am sure I won’t be the only football geek to point out that Malta was represented regularly in the European Cup’s early decades – eg Floriana (beaten 10-0 at Portman Road) and Hibernians, who held the Busby Babes 0-0 in Valletta before going down 4-0 at Old Trafford” – Alan Cooper (and no other football geeks).

I’m interested in the view that the north of England starts at Stoke (yesterday’s Football Daily). If so, does the south of England also start at Stoke? Asking for a friend who claims to live in somewhere called ‘the Midlands’” – Tony Rabaiotti.

After your comment on Jordan Henderson joining yet another club playing in red and white (Tuesday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), I couldn’t help but think which other Premier League clubs in red and white kits he has to cross off before he goes full circle and rejoins Sunderland. Arsenal seem the logical next move, as it’s just a short drift down the Regent’s Canal away. But would he survive ‘The Theatre of Dreams’? I sincerely hope Amazon will be there to film it all” – Yannick Woudstra.

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It’s not quite the same as the England men’s players shoehorning song titles into media interviews in 1998 – Gareth Southgate possibly gave the game away with “It’s hardly Club Tropicana, Bob, it’s been raining all day” – but the Lionesses have got an in-joke of their own at Euro 2025, with Chloe Kelly explaining the celebrations of Beth Mead and Aggie Beever-Jones against Wales, with the pair clicking their fingers as they wheeled away. “We have a little group of us, the finishers, the positive clique, we call it,” she explained. “We said if one of us comes on to score then we should do that as our celebration. It might have been Maya [Le Tissier] that made the group chat. We get our pictures on an app and some of us didn’t have the pictures of the clicking celebration and that’s where the group chat came from, to send each other the pictures of it.” Sarina Wiegman will be hoping to see a few renditions in England’s quarter-final against a tricky Sweden side who smashed Germany and are a model of tournament consistency.

Manchester United had the highest number of fans arrested of all clubs in England and Wales last season, according to Home Office data. There were 121 arrests of United supporters, putting them ahead of Manchester City (94) and West Ham (77), with the Hammers also having the most fans with a banning order in force at the end of last season, up from 93 to 112.

Italy are through to their first major women’s semi since 1997 after Cristiana Girelli’s 90th-minute header beat Norway at Euro 2025. The striker scored both goals in a 2-1 win to spark wild celebrations. “We are doing this for our glory but the meaning is much deeper and we want to bring this to Italy,” she roared.

The first £1m transfer in women’s football has been completed after Olivia Smith confirmed her record-breaking move to European champions Arsenal. “It’s a privilege and an honour,” she beamed. “It’s my dream to compete for the biggest titles here in England. The atmosphere the supporters create at Emirates Stadium is incredible and I can’t wait to have that behind me.”

Bad news for Newcastle: Liverpool’s late swoop for Hugo Ekitike appears to be gaining traction with the Eintracht Frankfurt striker said to prefer a move to Anfield. Ekitike has a €100m (£86.5m) release clause.

And DR Congo are to pay Barcelona more than €40m in a sponsorship deal that will see a logo promoting tourism appear on some team apparel.

The latest edition of our sister email is out, out, out. Read an extract from it, about Wafcon and the future of African football, right here.

Emma Hayes wants to let the England squad know that beating Sweden in the Euro 2025 quarter-finals will be ruddy difficult.

Tom Garry puts his focus on the Swedes and their lofty status in the women’s game thanks to being a progressive nation.

New season, new Manchester United? Absolutely not. Jamie Jackson looks at the plethora of issues still facing Ruben Amorim.

Keeping hold of Alexander Isak, amid Liverpool’s interest, will be a key test of Newcastle’s ambitions, according to Louise Taylor.

And do remember to get all the latest transfer tittle-tattle from the Rumour Mill. Nicolas Jackson to Old Trafford, anyone?

It’s the Open! Follow round one live. Away from the links, though, here’s a look at Arsenal player Alex James considering his putt during a team training day at a course in Hatch End, north-west London, back in November 1929. Teammate Tom Parker, manager Herbert Chapman and David Jack look on.