AT university one of my friends mocked two others who were doing Management Science (Business Studies to normal people) for their regular use of baffling TLAs – three-letter acronyms.
Unfortunately TLAs have now become a plague on soccer. We’ve all suffered in recent seasons at the very slow and often mind-boggling decisions of VAR (Video Assistant Referees), but at least they relate to the action on the pitch.
Far worse is all the talk about PSR and APT. You may well know that PSR means Profit and Sustainability Rules, even if you are – like me – confused about the methods used to calculate how much debt a club is in, or how much it has over-spent.
But APT? Even when you’re told that it stands for Associated Party Transaction one would hardly understand what that means.
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That’s before getting into FMV and EAG and FAB.
WTF? FML. FFS.
My Man.Sci. mates might understand all those TLAs, but it’s doubtful if even they really know what’s going on.
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