AMONG talk of more delays to the rebuilding of Wembley Stadium comes the understatement of the year.

Any fan who has struggled for hours to reach the national stadium to partake in the pleasure of being ripped-off for food, drink and programme prices will have been forced to suppress a chuckle or two at the comments from Brent Council.

They are due to judge the Wembley planning application later this month.

And a Brent Council spokesman, Pascoe Sawyers, said: "There have been a number of problems relating to the road infrastructure, public transport and traffic management."

Get away -- and I thought it was just co-incidence that every time Wembley staged a big game the traffic ground to a halt, the trains seized up and no-one could get where they wanted to be when they wanted to be there.

ABERDEEN have urged the Scottish Football Association to agree to a 50-50 split on tickets for next month's Scottish Cup final with Rangers at Hampden Park. Why?

It's only right that the big boys should not be allowed to ride roughshod over the 'smaller' clubs but let's be realistic for a moment.

Rangers' average Ibrox league gate of around 50,000 is vastly more than double that of Aberdeen, whose Pittodrie home holds only 21,634 and has not reached capacity all season.

Not even against Rangers and Celtic with their huge travelling support.

If there was to be a 50-50 split, you could probably take the whole family into the Aberdeen end -- and still have ample room to swing the proverbial cat.

A fleet of taxis -- rather than coaches -- is believed to have been hired to transport the Pittordrie faithful South to Hampden.

WHATEVER you might think of the Scousers, you can't deny they do have a sense of humour.

Liverpool's "On the Road" feature in Sunday's programme for the Spurs game gave intriguing directions for the Good Friday derby away to Everton.

"Walk in a brisk manner down Anfield Road and cross Stanley Park. Goodison Park is the big thing ahead of you."

And just in case that proves too difficult, Liverpool kindly provide a big colour picture of the venue!

OFFICIALS postponed Sunday's Bosch Spark Plug Cart Grand Prix in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, due to freezing temperatures and overnight snowfall. Well, what do you expect? The cricket season HAS started.

PREMIERSHIP bosses are preparing to conduct transfer talks over the Internet after the launch of an exclusive new web service.

Interclubnet.com is said to be a secure communications system which will allow top brass to discuss contracts, transfers and other club-to-club business.

And 80 clubs around the world have signed up to the service with 10 Premier League sides, including Manchester United, Leeds, Chelsea, Everton and Southampton, already paying the £24,000 yearly subscription.

Interclub will host a unique 20,000-player database, a specialist transfer list and a secure e-mail system which can translate messages into six languages.

Sounds a bit OTT just to sign Joe Bloggs from Hartlepool on a free.