We’ve changed the format this week so I can address some of the questions and observations you’ve sent in.

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Arne Slot’s team selection at Stamford Bridge handed Chelsea three points. He showed zero respect for the other Champions League contenders and should be reminded of his obligations. Terry Wilkins, Mansfield

Slot doesn’t have a responsibility to other clubs. His job is to manage Liverpool and achieve the best outcomes for them without any concern for Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest or anyone else.

We have people screaming from the rooftops about the amount of games for players, and here is a manager rotating and there’s a suggestion he has an inherent obligation to think about other teams.

This isn’t match-fixing, betting on yellow cards or challenging the integrity of the sport. I’d say, and did say during my time at Crystal Palace, if you aren’t playing for something meaningful in May - in Liverpool’s case because they are already champions - it’s common sense to give younger or fringe players experience for the benefit of the following season.

Leeds had a parade to celebrate winning the Championship. What’s the point? All they’ll do is come back down like all the other promoted teams. Amy Grainger, Manchester

Not according to their chairman, Paraag Marathe. He claims they are going to be one of the best clubs in Europe. The last promoted owner that bold was Evangelos Marinakis at Forest, and it’s worked out alright.

If Leeds approach next season as Southampton, Ipswich and Leicester have done – regarding the Premier League as an opportunity to show off a football philosophy – they will get relegated.

But given they are a club of stature with resource and ambition to match, there is no reason not to stay up.

Yes, they will be slightly kneecapped by PSR (profit and sustainability rules) and the ridiculous and inherent unfairness of having to carry Championship financial governance into the Premier league.

But Forest, Bournemouth and others have bridged the gap. It's not beyond the wit of man, it’s about your strategy and getting the recruitment right.

As for the parade, why shouldn’t the club and fans celebrate winning the golden ticket of being in the Premier League?

Everything in life, particularly in the media, is micro-analysed into instantaneous gratification or condemnation so why shouldn’t Leeds mark this moment, especially given their chairman’s belief and likely propensity to back it up with financial support?

Todd Boehly and his consortium at Chelsea are clueless, and delusional if they think their ownership model will be copied by other clubs. Roman Abramovich had the sense to leave decisions to subordinates who knew what they were doing. Charlie Jordan (no relation!)

Let’s not forget when Boehly and his partners bought the club in 2022, Chelsea hadn’t won the Premier League for five years and also were in existential jeopardy. We can’t rewrite history and say they were dominating English football.

I think Boehly tried to immerse himself right away in understanding the business, in order to develop knowledge of it and then hold it to account. That was turned into a narrative where he was making all the decisions, which was unlikely to be the case.

Everything that’s happened to him since is the fruit of a poisoned tree because he got rid of Thomas Tuchel. But perhaps, as rumoured, Tuchel’s behaviour was difficult to handle and he didn’t engage with the new ownership.

I don’t think Boehly is expecting his methods to change the industry. He’s working on the basis that, while he might not be getting the right outcomes for Chelsea now, he will in the longer term.

Some decisions in the transfer market and appointing Graham Potter as manager were flawed – that first season was a disaster – but people in a new business are going to make mistakes. It is how quickly you learn from them.

He has backed the football club and they are likely to get into the Champions League next season. The financial landscape of the sport has also changed markedly since Abramovich entered 20 years ago - there are different obligations on how clubs run things and account for it.

There is no silverware on the table yet under Boehly but you have to include these other weights and measures when judging his record. But they do have to start doing better.

Why does every player who takes a corner insist on placing the ball just overhanging the quadrant as if it’s gaining some big advantage? Graham Markham

Because football is a liberty-taking culture and that is the psychology of the players in it!

How often do we see a free-kick or throw-in taken five yards from where it’s given? Or forwards in the box throw themselves down like they’ve been shot in the film Platoon to try to win a penalty?

Everyone in the game, including managers, attempt to get away with as much as they can until something happens that’s so outrageous, people kick up a fuss.

Nothing surprises me in an industry which gives appearance money for turning up as if the basic wage does not cover that luxury, loyalty bonuses to players who stay a year and strikers getting add-ons for scoring goals, which is their job anyway.

What next, extra money for players who don’t chase the mascot around with a meat cleaver?!

It’s this same culture of entitlement that sees players irritatingly roll the ball to the very brink of, or beyond, the arc where they can legitimately take a corner. It’s about trying to get a better outcome than the one they have actually been awarded.

Michael Oliver received awful threats against him and his family. Referees should go on strike unless the FA imposes points deductions on offending clubs. Derek Butchart

Referees should not be abused but it’s the fans who are doing the offending, not the clubs. I made the case when there were calls for Millwall to be fined for abuse towards Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta and homophobic chants aimed at others.

How can Millwall or any club control what people say on the terraces, let alone social media which is outside their jurisdiction?

I do think referees have to be more valued, from the TV studio to managers’ dugout. We hear unfair observations about them in both those places. It seems the only people in football not allowed to make mistakes are referees.

But I certainly don’t think clubs should be sanctioned for matters outside their influence.

Your column on the decline of Sky Sports was 100 per cent correct. Football on TV has become a hard watch. Anthony Cross, Liverpool season-ticket holder for 36 years

We are getting too many bland, vanilla opinions on television.

There is so much football covered and broadcasters have to fill space around all the slots advertisers have paid for, which ranges from pre-match to long after the final whistle.

Where it becomes a hard listen is presenters and pundits filling time with dross and people not saying anything of substance.

It has all become Disneyfied a little bit with a lot of theatrical nonsense.

It’s not only Sky, by the way. Some of the stuff Kate Scott, Micah Richards and Jamie Carragher do on CBS for the Champions League, it makes your toes curl and butt cheeks clench!