Pornodwarf on Hardtalk

[martin]

Not sure if you get this in the UK, but Diddy Dave shared his views on money in football, porn and his life-long love for the 'Appy 'Ammers in an interview with Steven Sacker on BBC World's Hardtalk last night.

It was done in his house and it looked everything you would expect - though I didn't see the billiard playing cats of Fletch's brilliant parody last year.

Apparently he's going to turn the east enders into a top four club but isn't going to spend loads of money to do it because football's become a cesspit of greed and mismanagement everywhere apart from himself and the upstanding Mr Tumnus. Karen didn't get a mention.

When Sacker asked how he would do this when we he hadn't done it at Blose, the pint-sized pornographer promised that West Ham would get more of his dosh cos him and the dildo salesman have loved them since they was damp-nosed street urchins watching Booby Moore win the European Cup with George Best and Billy Wright from the turkey coop at Upson Park...

He wouldn't do it at Blose because he wasn't from the area and never loved them enough, and besides, "Burminum" got 16 good years out of him and he left with his head held high.

On the sex industry, he claimed it wasn't exploitative because women got paid five times more for a porn flick than the blokes and what other industry would that 'appen in, eh?

Oh, and he thinks West Ham should get the Olympic Stadium and Seb Coe's a cnut from Sheffield who "doesn't understand Laandoners" for not giving it to him.

[bertlambshank]

They repeat it at 4.30 am on the BBC news channel.

[The Man With A Stick]

They played a clip on the news yesterday, the man is in a world of his own.

[E I Adio]

Unbelievable. I'm shocked. Hardtalk used to have a reputation for in-depth, serious and searching interviews with world statesmen , Nobel prize winners and the like. Sinking so low as to even contemplate interviewing this inconsequential, grubby little man must surely signal the end for it.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Sullivan on Hardtalk.

How apt.

[Lucky Eddie]

Having introduced the fifty quid match ticket to West Midland football it's a bit rich him moaning about money spoiling the game. Fuckin twat!

[myf]

I wish the press would stay clear of him.  He's a fame junkie.

[Lucky Eddie]

His voice sounds like it should belong to someone else.

[pablopicasso_10]

does he ever shut up?!?

[Simon Ward]

does he ever shut up?!?

No

[mr-villa]

I took the trouble to record this as i was interested to hear what he had to say.  Despite all the previous posts, most of which are no doubt based on peoples petty hatred of the fact that the man and his business colleague were in charge of our city neighbours, I thought on the whole that he gave a good account.

People really need to take off their rose tinted specs and stop pretending that they have never experienced any form of pornography.  The guy made his money perfectly legally and unlike some folks in business does not go and hide away somewhere offshore to avoid paying taxes.

He was honest enough to admit that he was not in love with BCFC and that both he and Gold have more affinity with WHU.  His plans to relocate WHU and make use of the Olympic Stadium post 2012 make sound commercial sense and instead of belittling them Seb Coe and his gang should get around the table and see what UK plc can get back from Sullivan and Gold for their use of the stadium after the Olympics.  After all does anybody want to see another "Millenium Dome" situation occuring with tax payers money on that site because thats exactly where we are heading with this stadium after the games.

During the interview Sullivan was perfectly within his rights in outlining his framework for correcting the shocking imbalance that has been allowed to develop in terms of player wages and power and also for knocking the Premier League for allowing some of the more dubious foreign investment to come into the league.  Nobody can deny the mess that Pompey are in and in part the Premier League have allowed that to happen, their governance of our national sport has been nothing short of incompetent at best and downright negligent at worst.

In principle I believe he was quite right to touch on the Kieron Dyer issue at West Ham, the guy should have been medically retired a long time ago.  To be allowed to meander through his last two high wage contracts without checks and balances is wrong.  In any other business an employee (for that is ultimately what he is) who was unfit to perform the job for which they are paid, for as long as he has been unfit, would have been finished long ago on the grounds of ill health.  

To summarise I thought it was a good interview and that David Sullivan gave a good account of what he hopes to achieve at WHU.  His business model is both appropriate and robust in the current climate and I for one share his view on the need for clubs to regain the upper hand over the players and their agents and begin to reign in the excessive spending on wages that has been a blight on football for too long now.  The money is beginning to run out and we should all be preparing for the new paradigm that lies ahead, i believe they call it the real world.

[pablopicasso_10]

it may have been an interview giving us the answers to the meaning of life, however, a persons valid points are somewhat lost, when for the most part, they spout agenda filled nonsensical drivel, over and over again to anyone who will listen...

the media must love these rent a quote gobshites...

[Rip Van We Go Again]

He looks like a ventriloquist's doll.
One of the scary old fashioned type.

[Drummond]

I took the trouble to record this as i was interested to hear what he had to say.  Despite all the previous posts, most of which are no doubt based on peoples petty hatred of the fact that the man and his business colleague were in charge of our city neighbours, I thought on the whole that he gave a good account.

You lost me at this point. making a petty point about other people making petty points is petty. See my point?

[joe_c]

He looks like a ventriloquist's doll.
One of the scary old fashioned type.

As a child, I once dreamt about a vampire ventriloquist's dummy called Montague but when he bit you, you turned into a ventriloquist's dummy too. Still not nearly as flesh creepingly vile as Sullivan though.