Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: martin on February 04, 2010, 01:22:41 AM
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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.
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They repeat it at 4.30 am on the BBC news channel.
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They played a clip on the news yesterday, the man is in a world of his own.
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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.
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Sullivan on Hardtalk.
How apt.
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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!
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I wish the press would stay clear of him. He's a fame junkie.
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His voice sounds like it should belong to someone else.
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does he ever shut up?!?
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does he ever shut up?!?
No
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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.
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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...
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He looks like a ventriloquist's doll.
One of the scary old fashioned type.
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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?
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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.
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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.
Susbstitue the words "West Ham" for "Birminum City" and this interview is no different to the sort of rubbish he used to spout whenever a microphne was shoved under his nose at St Andrews.
I fell asleep half way through, but did Sullivan mention the incident that took place in his porn mansion last year, involving a young lady and a subsequent interview at the police station?
Like you say - "all perfectly legal", I'm sure
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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.
Did or did he not introduce £50 football match tickets into the west midlands?
And now we should agree with him? Do me a favour.
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Did or did he not introduce £50 football match tickets into the west midlands?
And now we should agree with him? Do me a favour.
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Anybody who bought a £50 ticket was a fool and a silly fool at that!. Capitalism dictates that the price is determined by what the market bears, its simple supply/demand economics.
That action does not preclude him from opining on the game in general. Did you watch the interview, if you did perhaps you could tell me what he said in relation to the current state of the game that you vehemently disagreed with? I look forward to reading it.
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He looks like a ventriloquist's doll.
One of the scary old fashioned type.
That is quality! You should send that to Football365 look-a-likes
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Anybody who bought a £50 ticket was a fool and a silly fool at that!. Capitalism dictates that the price is determined by what the market bears, its simple supply/demand economics.
Don’t talk bollocks. Anybody who bought the ticket was a Villa supporter who wanted to see the game. Don’t go calling us fools for being exploited.
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Am i missing something with this local lifelong hammers fan i always thought he was from cardiff and was a cardiff city fan.
Also when the blues first got promoted didn't him, the Golds & Bagpuss constantly brag about spending big especially how they where trying to outspend us on transfers and wages.
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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.
That would make a great film.
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Don’t talk bollocks. Anybody who bought the ticket was a Villa supporter who wanted to see the game. Don’t go calling us fools for being exploited.
Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here. I do not think you were exploited, you had the choice whether to buy at £50 or not, you were not forced into the purchase, the game was on TV anyway.
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Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here. I do not think you were exploited, you had the choice whether to buy at £50 or not, you were not forced into the purchase, the game was on TV anyway.
so pay £50 to watch the match at their ground or subscribe to Sky to watch it on TV ( £30 a month, £360 a year?).
I'd be interested to see your definition of "exploited"
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Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here. I do not think you were exploited, you had the choice whether to buy at £50 or not, you were not forced into the purchase, the game was on TV anyway.
so pay £50 to watch the match at their ground or subscribe to Sky to watch it on TV ( £30 a month, £360 a year?).
I'd be interested to see your definition of "exploited"
...or maybe go to the pub and watch it.
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Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here. I do not think you were exploited, you had the choice whether to buy at £50 or not, you were not forced into the purchase, the game was on TV anyway.
so pay £50 to watch the match at their ground or subscribe to Sky to watch it on TV ( £30 a month, £360 a year?).
I'd be interested to see your definition of "exploited"
...or maybe go to the pub and watch it.
bag of crisps and a pint, still gona cost you £3.30,
actually thats not bad is it
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I wish the press would stay clear of him. He's a fame junkie.
That's 'fame junkie' - spelt K N O B.
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Don’t talk bollocks. Anybody who bought the ticket was a Villa supporter who wanted to see the game. Don’t go calling us fools for being exploited.
Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here. I do not think you were exploited, you had the choice whether to buy at £50 or not, you were not forced into the purchase, the game was on TV anyway.
Dont think you've got the right name MrVilla. For many the cost of away tickets to feed their addiction is beyond reason. Mr 'Villa when its a reasonable cost that I can justify' may suit ;-)
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Sorry if i offended anybody, just my opinion which i thought i was freely allowed to express on here.
You are, and you did. But it just happens that the rest of us think he's a cock.
I am especially suspicious when he starts to moan about greed in the game of football. He is not in it for his health.
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If he is it's clearly not working.
Maybe he should take up step aerobics.
Or foxy boxing.
He's certainly got the tits for the latter.
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It must be at least 2 days since these dirty pair of pimps have been in the news. Love their pose - staring into each others' eyes like a pair of bummers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8505540.stm
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It must be at least 2 days since these dirty pair of pimps have been in the news. Love their pose - staring into each others' eyes like a pair of bummers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8505540.stm
Christ, it looks like they're trialling the new range of jumbo vibrating arse corks.
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It must be at least 2 days since these dirty pair of pimps have been in the news. Love their pose - staring into each others' eyes like a pair of bummers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8505540.stm
Christ, it looks like they're trialling the new range of jumbo vibrating arse corks.
yep, you can just see their white knuckles gripping onto the hand rail
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I feel sorry for them having no choice but to buy a football club massively in debt, needing huge investment and struggling in the lower reaches of the league.
Its not like they could just choose not to buy West Ham is it?
How were they to know how bad things were after doing due dilligence and numerous other scrunitizing financial assessments?
Poor, ugly, self publicising, grubby twats.
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That jacket Sullivan always seems to be wearing is really shit isn't it?
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That jacket Sullivan always seems to be wearing is really shit isn't it?
Yes, yes it is.
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I haven't seen the picture, but has he got his Russian hat on?
That's really annoying as well.
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The man is irredeemable.
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I heard today on talk shite that Sullivan has said relegation or not every single player next year will have to take a wage cut - some of them up to 50%
I would imagine the various players agents phones were going into meltdown with "Get me out of here "messages
The problem that these pair of cockjockeys have is that even when they come out with something sensible and credible they look such a pair of bellends that no one takes them seriously
Poor old Sendo - i wonder if he has had his Emporers new clothes wake up yet to what they have let themselves in for
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Tell the fans that Armageddon is near and they become instant heroes when they heroically save the club they loved as children from imminent death.
Yeah, right-o.
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It's the admin staff I feel for. I don't suppose their wages are all that great for London yet a multi-millionaire is telling them they have to take a salary cut. That'll boost morale for the coming relegation fight.
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I heard today on talk shite that Sullivan has said relegation or not every single player next year will have to take a wage cut - some of them up to 50%
he is right though, wages are way of context into the actual revenue of clubs and clubs including ourselves have to watch them
we should never have to worry about relegation but for teams who do, the wages have to be sensible, maybe other clubs will follow this and who knows some sensible economics may be part of football
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I can see it all now:
"David Sullivan - the father of economically viable football"
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It's all a bit hollow for him to go on about wage cuts when, ooh, all of two weeks ago he was bigging himself up with all that "we're offering someone 100k a week to play for us" talk.
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I heard today on talk shite that Sullivan has said relegation or not every single player next year will have to take a wage cut - some of them up to 50%
he is right though, wages are way of context into the actual revenue of clubs and clubs including ourselves have to watch them
we should never have to worry about relegation but for teams who do, the wages have to be sensible, maybe other clubs will follow this and who knows some sensible economics may be part of football
Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays? i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.
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Suggest Sullivan includes a couple of his porn "bitches" in all of his players contracts for optional "use" which could fund the 50% wage drop !!! At least it would be legalish when there wifes find out !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The man is irredeemable.
Indeed.
He's about as redeemable as a Woolworths voucher.
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Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays? i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.
the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.
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It's the admin staff I feel for. I don't suppose their wages are all that great for London yet a multi-millionaire is telling them they have to take a salary cut. That'll boost morale for the coming relegation fight.
THe effect on morale was the first thing I thought about. Not sure what industry Pornodwarf is modeling himself on but I'm sure telling an overpaid premier league prima donna he's going to have to take a pay cut is not the best way to motivate.
Can I also assume that the contracts these players on allows for a pay cut?
Or can I sleep safely knowing that once again this is simply yet another publicity seeking mission from the tossers from the Sty off on another one?
Has Sendo got off his sick bed yet? They've got years of this to come.
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Sorry, only just read it. "Voluntary" pay cuts. Yep. With a gun to their heads.
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"all premier league managers are overpaid." So he's seen all their contracts.
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I'm sure the £100k a week striker they were going to sign would have been happy with this little caveat too.
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Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays? i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.
the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.
Considering it was only six years since they went down having been "too good to be relegated" and only three years since they escaped relegation on the last day of the season thank to an unlikely win away at Man Utd - it would have been short-sighted in the extreme if they had 'never expected to be relegated'.
Not that short-sightedness would be a surprise at the West Ham of the last few years.
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"Already members of the administrative staff have come to us and said, 'look we know we are overpaid for the job we do but we are good people and we'd like to stay and we are prepared to take a voluntary wage cut'."
I wonder how many members of the administrative staff actually said this?
What a complete twat. How long before West Ham fans turn against these tacky wank-merchants???
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Don't most clubs include a relegation clause in most contracts nowadays? i.e. if we get relegated you wages will be £x.
the newly promoted ones do (which is West Brom are finacially sound but a yo-yo club), but doubt West Ham did as they would never have expected to be relegated.
Considering it was only six years since they went down having been "too good to be relegated" and only three years since they escaped relegation on the last day of the season thank to an unlikely win away at Man Utd - it would have been short-sighted in the extreme if they had 'never expected to be relegated'.
Not that short-sightedness would be a surprise at the West Ham of the last few years.
well to be fair to dildo twins, the large contracts were signed at the time of the Icelandic guys and before their country went tits up, when they were splashing the cash they expected CL not relegation.
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The fact he came out in the open just within earshot of the SKY cameras that he knew was there and started blabbing about money says everything to me.
He's a fucking liar. There was nobody on the end of the phone. £100k a week my arse.
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Benni McCarthy for a £100k a week (soon to be £75k a week) is a good bit of business... ;-)
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For a while, I was almost warming to West Ham. I'd managed to put aside the Tevez scandal, as I quite like Zola and anyway, Sendo is such a nice poster on here. Now that pair of ****** is in charge, I can happily go back to despising everything about them.
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Birmingham City deserved those pricks. West Ham, for all their ills, do not.
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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.
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Hello Dave.
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Zola has just said it was badly timed and they shouldn't have blabbed to the press first.
Poor Zola, he'll soon learn what a big mouth self publicist he is.
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Rumours he's going to get sacked and replaced with Ailsa from Home and Away.
I like Zola, I almost quite like West Ham but with them wankers in charge I wouldn't be too upset if they did enter the financial Armageddon they are babbling about.
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An angry Zola, however, criticised the timing of the revelation, coming just 24 hours before West Ham take on Birmingham, and said: "I think the article should have been done at another time, not just before a match. It would have been better to say that at another time and maybe talk to us before talking to a newspaper. That is my feeling."
From Sendo's manor, KUMB:
I can't believe how much I dislike Gold and Sullivan already.
Your first few weeks are supposed to be an amazing time of optimism and false promise. They just seem intent on ruining morale, playing games in the press and generally making absolute penises of themselves. It's bizarre all round. I never really minded the professional silence the old regime had that annoyed so many. Much, much preferable to this shambles. I can't believe these guys actually ran a football club fairly innocuously before. Pretty much every move they've made so far has been clumsy and amateurish.
You've got to feel sorry for them.
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You've got to feel sorry for them.
Nope.
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You've got to feel sorry for them.
Nope.
They hate Spurs more than we do. In fact, they're laughing at Redknapp as SSN have just put Spurs top of the league... for the long ball game:
1..........Spurs......... 1769
2..........Liverpool.... 1614
3..........Wigan........ 1526
Not sure if those numbers reflect yards or hoofs. Just found out it's number of passes made over 50 yards. Apparently Redknapp denied it all.
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From Sendo's manor, KUMB:
I can't believe how much I dislike Gold and Sullivan already.
Your first few weeks are supposed to be an amazing time of optimism and false promise. They just seem intent on ruining morale, playing games in the press and generally making absolute penises of themselves. It's bizarre all round. I never really minded the professional silence the old regime had that annoyed so many. Much, much preferable to this shambles. I can't believe these guys actually ran a football club fairly innocuously before. Pretty much every move they've made so far has been clumsy and amateurish.
You've got to feel sorry for them.
Innocuously? They were hated by everyone they came into contact with.
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You've got to feel sorry for them.
Nope.
They hate Spurs more than we do. In fact, they're laughing at Redknapp as SSN have just put Spurs top of the league... for the long ball game:
1..........Spurs......... 1769
2..........Liverpool.... 1614
3..........Wigan........ 1526
Not sure if those numbers reflect yards or hoofs. Just found out it's number of passes made over 50 yards. Apparently Redknapp denied it all.
Who's 4th?
I swear if we fail to break into that top four I want MoN out!
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MON wasn't allowed to enter this season having cleaned up the competition in the last three years.
And apart from that, we've now got Stewart Downing.
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Gold and Sullivan are simply media whores. Love the sound of their own voices. What a pair of twats.
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"Already members of the administrative staff have come to us and said, 'look we know we are overpaid for the job we do but we are good people and we'd like to stay and we are prepared to take a voluntary wage cut'."
I wonder how many members of the administrative staff actually said this?
You're as incredulous as me.
We work for an organisation that is owned by multi-millionaires, where the most high-profile employees are multi-millionaires, but do you know what? We'll be the ones who take a pay-cut.
Yeah, yeah, Mr Sullivan. As if.
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They also now have zero chance of persuading any good players to sign for Wrist Ham.
I think they actually want to get relegated.
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sullivan is just a circus clown in my view, obviously a wealthy one peddling porn,
but his side kick, Gold comes across as a nasty piede of work, i bet he's a right horrible man in real life,
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SSN Showed pictures of the dirty little prick in that ridiculous Russian military coat, he was shadowed by Mister Tumnus who was wearing what appeared to be a leather version of a 70's schoolkids parka.
Vermin, the pair of them.
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Didnt they only buy 50% of the club? Maybe this is the ploy to get the other half on the cheap.
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Sullivan has the most freaky, disturbing voice I think I've ever heard.
He actually sounds like what I imagine an oil slick would sound like if it could talk.
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If they don't manage it this year, and by god they're trying, they will certainly manage to relegate them soon. They are horrific.
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The Twat In Action (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAnj1pEcuw&feature=PlayList&p=60DAA96B55ADA3FB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11)
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Maybe the Porndwarf could speak to the ICF about raising funds. I seem to remember they made a killing (as well as stabbings and serious beatings) with the rave scene a few years back.
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He was interviewed at length on Radio 2 at about 7pm last night. He seemed amazed at the level of costs at WHU, which can only mean he did zero due diligence before parting with his hard earned. I hope it wipes the pair of them out for good. If they take West Ham down with them, so much the better.
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Risso, how is it possible for a company not to do due diligence? I would have thought the banks insisted or at least strongly advised when it's a straight cash purchase.
If it is the case they didn't bother, they should shut the fuck up as they've only got themselves to blame.
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He was interviewed at length on Radio 2 at about 7pm last night. He seemed amazed at the level of costs at WHU, which can only mean he did zero due diligence before parting with his hard earned. I hope it wipes the pair of them out for good. If they take West Ham down with them, so much the better.
I think he is making a big flap and pretending to be surprised, to give himself an excuse for (a) getting relegated and (b) sacking everybody. he wants to be boss of a Premier League football club but he wants to do it on a Championship budget.
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This I find very strange. But then again, Sullivan and Gold are nothing more than Barrow boys made good. I think they're constant babbling to the media shows a level of insecurity and is covering up any real business acumen.
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I never really had too much of a problem with West Ham before these reptilians bought them. Now I'd love to see them relegated.
It's such a shame that they left the Blose. The Chinesse have alot of hard work to do to match the scale of Muppetry and ill feeling that the Pornmeister and Tumnus achieved.
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Risso, how is it possible for a company not to do due diligence? I would have thought the banks insisted or at least strongly advised when it's a straight cash purchase.
If it is the case they didn't bother, they should shut the fuck up as they've only got themselves to blame.
Mike Ashley didn't do due diligence at Newcastle, the on the day he picked up the keys he found out Freddie Shepherd had stuffed debts in the back of every cupboard, and they'd spunked the next 5 years sponsorship money away already.
Not to mention him not understanding that clubs don't pay the entirety of transfer fees up front and they had plenty left to pay.
There can't be many industries like football, which make even extremely successful and experienced businessmen look like total chumps.
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I imagine they did due diligence, he probably just didn't understand the results.
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With the fact that there is little chance of Blues getting relegated I wouldn't be too disappointed if they beat West Ham tonight.
Wolves and West Ham to go down. Pompey are certainties sadly.
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Gold and Sullivan are simply media whores. Love the sound of their own voices. What a pair of twats.
It certainly seems that way. Sullivan is like rent-a-quote at the moment. Every five minutes he's blathering on about something in the media. It says a lot about what an idiot he's being that Zola of all people slated him publicly.
If he wants to bang on about the state of the clubs finances and start trying to reduce players contracts it might be wise for him to wait until the summer when we know we've managed to avoid relegation.
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I imagine they did due diligence, he probably just didn't understand the results.
Yes-in one Risso. Due diligence is a process-a bit like risk assessment. Just because you do it , it does not mean that it will always prevent problems. It mainly means you have taken the trouble to look.
I would defy anyone in finance to be completely confident of anyone's accounts (even their own) at any one time. Most things become apparent in retrospect.
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Gold and Sullivan are simply media whores. Love the sound of their own voices. What a pair of twats.
It certainly seems that way. Sullivan is like rent-a-quote at the moment. Every five minutes he's blathering on about something in the media. It says a lot about what an idiot he's being that Zola of all people slated him publicly.
If he wants to bang on about the state of the clubs finances and start trying to reduce players contracts it might be wise for him to wait until the summer when we know we've managed to avoid relegation.
Wise words Sendo, I have a lot of West Ham s/ticket holders that live near me and they are generally worried about losing their P/League status.
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Gold and Sullivan are simply media whores. Love the sound of their own voices. What a pair of twats.
It certainly seems that way. Sullivan is like rent-a-quote at the moment. Every five minutes he's blathering on about something in the media. It says a lot about what an idiot he's being that Zola of all people slated him publicly.
If he wants to bang on about the state of the clubs finances and start trying to reduce players contracts it might be wise for him to wait until the summer when we know we've managed to avoid relegation.
I've not followed all the postings on this Sendo but i guess you are beginning to see what everyone here was banging on about.
We had Ellis for years and I guess we know one when we see one. Sadly for West Ham-you get three of them.
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Sendo mate
Dont say we did not warn you - he will have no hiding place now with the London press - they used to ignore him and the other cronies up here but now they will hang onto every word he says and he will be shown up for the prick that he really is.
They will make your club a laughing stock - also i would not bet on them almost wanting relegation as it gives them the perfect opportunity to reduce the wage bill. They are not football people they are money people and just like our old uncle Doug think more of their peers acknowledgement of cutting costs and running a financially viable operation than they ever will about winning footbal matches.
Oh and every now and then any one of them can come out with a pearler that shows everyone that they are just very rich chavs at heart.
I feel sorry for you mate i really do as it will get worse and maybe never better
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Yeah I have to admit I'm fast becoming quite sceptical about Sullivan in particular who seems more interested in making a big deal about what a terrible state the club is in so that in 5 years time he can point at what he started out with when we're sitting in mid table bored off our tits. Though the most annoying thing for me is when he keeps appearing on tele in his West Ham shirt. Smacks of Mike Ashley sitting in the stands at St James' Park trying desperately to fit in with the plebs.
Still at least Mr Tumnus and ol' saggy tits have been pretty quiet so far.
They are not football people they are money people and just like our old uncle Doug think more of their peers acknowledgement of cutting costs and running a financially viable operation than they ever will about winning footbal matches.
In fairness though, we probably need a large dose of this at the moment.
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In fairness though, we probably need a large dose of this at the moment.
I doubt it. Cutting costs and running a financially viable operation for themselves.
Have they put up the ticket prices yet?
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In fairness though, we probably need a large dose of this at the moment.
I doubt it. Cutting costs and running a financially viable operation for themselves.
Have they put up the ticket prices yet?[/quote]
That will only be for their "derby" games.............bugger and there's a fair few of those !
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Yeah I have to admit I'm fast becoming quite sceptical about Sullivan in particular who seems more interested in making a big deal about what a terrible state the club is in so that in 5 years time he can point at what he started out with when we're sitting in mid table bored off our tits. Though the most annoying thing for me is when he keeps appearing on tele in his West Ham shirt. Smacks of Mike Ashley sitting in the stands at St James' Park trying desperately to fit in with the plebs.
Still at least Mr Tumnus and ol' saggy tits have been pretty quiet so far.
They are not football people they are money people and just like our old uncle Doug think more of their peers acknowledgement of cutting costs and running a financially viable operation than they ever will about winning footbal matches.
In fairness though, we probably need a large dose of this at the moment.
When they took over at B-lose the first hing they did was close down all the youth setup as they didn't see the point in spending money developing youth when they can just purchase players.
They have shown in the last few weeks that they still don;t know about running a football club really. Although Spam need to cut costs they way they have gone about it is going to alienate players who they have and future signings. Talk of not paying Davenport as being stabbed in the leg was against the terms of his contract, forcing Dyer to retire and the blabbing about a 25% pay cut for all staff (including admin staff on 25K a year rather then a week).
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Sendo, have the pornsters cashed in on substitute and added time yet? Soon you'll hear a sub or added time announced at Upton Park followed by, "this substitute is sponsored by 'we'll-do-anything-for-money.com etc. And, (honestly) they do the same when the stretcher comes on for an injured player.
Trust me, you've got years of this desperate sh#t to put up with. God help you. ;-)
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Sendo, have the pornsters cashed in on substitute and added time yet? Soon you'll hear a sub or added time announced at Upton Park followed by, "this substitute is sponsored by 'we'll-do-anything-for-money.com etc. And, (honestly) they do the same when the stretcher comes on for an injured player.
Trust me, you've got years of this desperate sh#t to put up with. God help you. ;-)
Do you remember when they announced the amazing commerical enterprise that was the sock ties that were supposed to improve physical performance or something. Truly bizarre.
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Sendo, have the pornsters cashed in on substitute and added time yet? Soon you'll hear a sub or added time announced at Upton Park followed by, "this substitute is sponsored by 'we'll-do-anything-for-money.com etc. And, (honestly) they do the same when the stretcher comes on for an injured player.
Trust me, you've got years of this desperate sh#t to put up with. God help you. ;-)
Do you remember when they announced the amazing commerical enterprise that was the sock ties that were supposed to improve physical performance or something. Truly bizarre.
Soccerties! They were the next big thing, apparently! Ha!
I also fondly remember the tat they used to try and sell the Sty dwellers. Best of all was the "Free Watch" which was emblazoned with a ready made pair of bollocks that were just begging to be wrapped around a Northfield Chav's wrist. All you had to do to get this "Free Watch" was to ring this 0898 number and it would be sent out to you by first class post.
What they failed to tell though was that the phone call would cost you a whopping £50, which was a fortnight's dole money for most of the Noses.
Ahh the memories!
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My favourites were:
- the adverts in the local papers moaning that the fans weren't doing their bit
- their diary listing our honours
- "The Birmingham City substitute, sponsored by Mr Latif's Emporium is ... "
- Sullivan's little rant about "how can we compete with their support?"
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Brought to you by ‘Hollywood bowl’
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Talk of not paying Davenport as being stabbed in the leg was against the terms of his contract
To be fair, Davenport may turn out not to be the innocent victim we all thought. He's been charged with a serious criminal offence.
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Talk of not paying Davenport as being stabbed in the leg was against the terms of his contract
To be fair, Davenport may turn out not to be the innocent victim we all thought. He's been charged with a serious criminal offence.
GBH on his sister? And anyway he might have been charged but don't clubs normally wait until they are found guilty before getting shot of them rather then trying to withdraw to wriggle out on a loophole
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I recall their not so gentle encouragement, via Brady, to boycott the Birmingham Evening Mail due to a negative story being written.
This led to a few of the street vendors being verbally and physically abused - Nice.
Also, they wanted City fans, in a full page advertisment, to boycott a couple of supermarkets (Sainsbury's and Morrison's from memory), due to them refusing to stock the Sport newspapers.
They also stated in the advert that The Daily Sport were the only organisation to offer 'cancer sufferer Bobby Moore a job.' - Classy.
A Blues supporting mate of mine told me that in one of the suites at the Blues, they had a huge painted canvas of Sullvan arms aloft with the crowd beneath him all haling him like a Caesar.
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When they took over at B-lose the first hing they did was close down all the youth setup as they didn't see the point in spending money developing youth when they can just purchase players.
I can't see them lasting long if the started doing things like this. In fairness though, who was the last decent player to come out of Birmingham's youth team? Julian Dicks?
Sendo, have the pornsters cashed in on substitute and added time yet? Soon you'll hear a sub or added time announced at Upton Park followed by, "this substitute is sponsored by 'we'll-do-anything-for-money.com etc. And, (honestly) they do the same when the stretcher comes on for an injured player.
Trust me, you've got years of this desperate sh#t to put up with. God help you. ;-)
Fucking hell. That is shocking.
Mind, we're used to embarrassing gimmicks. We've already had a few years of Pardew and his "Moore than a football team" antics.
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Just wait until they start taking the piss with ticket prices, begging the council to put the money in that they can't, making ludicrous comments that make you look foolish about your rival London clubs, complain if you don't sell out on the basis tha they are great regardless of how shit your team is, undermine your manager at every turn and come up with more laughable gimmicks than those in the "That's Amazing" sketch in the fast show.
And that's before I start on that daft cow Brady.
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Sendo
PLease do not think we are having a dig at West Ham - we are merely pointing out what we know as facts with these dildo peddlers over the last 16 years - some of the shit you could not make up.
It is interesting that almost in unison that they leave Blues they start to play like a decent side - every facet of the club was touched by them including the players
Who can forget his rant publically about Quedrue
As i said where they were ignored by national media when they were up here the more London friendly tabloids will have a field day with the 3 renta quote wankers
Oh and just wait till saggy tits gets involved - it was her that instigated the billboard signs (and i kid you not) around Brum laying down the law to Nose fans that they should be rgateful for what they did for the club and then went on to list some of the most inane things you could imagine
Can anyone get the quote he said to Curbishly - regarding the "if you loved this club you would reinvest the money we gave you for sacking you back into the club" Unfuckingcuntytittybelievable
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... every facet of the club was touched by them including the players
It's not just the club, even the city feels cleansed now.
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The Official 2011 WHU Club Diary will make an interesting read. Make sure you get one Sendo, it will make you so proud of your clubs history.
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The Official 2011 WHU Club Diary will make an interesting read. Make sure you get one Sendo, it will make you so proud of your clubs history.
1868 - West Ham invent football, aided by the supervision of Isambard Sullivan and Cuthbert Gold - It proves to be a roaring success.
1923 - West Ham win the FA cup for the 14th time in succession, David Sullivan's Father Jackoff Sullivan helps clear the overcrowded Wembley pitch with his white Unicorn (A white horse with a Cornetto glued to it's face)
1945 - David Gold is born, Hitler immediately surrenders
1951 - David Sullivan born in a barn in Nazareth, formative years spent as a carpenter making wooden dildoes and crude sculptures of dogs rutting
1966 West Ham win the World cup! Are we singing when we're winning?
We are now!
1972 - Joy as West Ham win their 31st League title
2010 - The nadir of West Ham history, Sullivan and Gold take over, utopian football awaits
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1945 - David Gold is born, Hitler immediately surrenders
1951 - David Sullivan born in a barn in Nazareth, formative years spent as a carpenter making wooden dildoes and crude sculptures of dogs rutting
Thanks, Mark. It's been a long week and that's the best laugh I've had.
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Have a feeling I read online somewhere that James Collins's sister is one of the administrative staff at West Ham who has lost her job.
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The Official 2011 WHU Club Diary will make an interesting read. Make sure you get one Sendo, it will make you so proud of your clubs history.
1868 - West Ham invent football, aided by the supervision of Isambard Sullivan and Cuthbert Gold - It proves to be a roaring success.
1923 - West Ham win the FA cup for the 14th time in succession, David Sullivan's Father Jackoff Sullivan helps clear the overcrowded Wembley pitch with his white Unicorn (A white horse with a Cornetto glued to it's face)
1945 - David Gold is born, Hitler immediately surrenders
1951 - David Sullivan born in a barn in Nazareth, formative years spent as a carpenter making wooden dildoes and crude sculptures of dogs rutting
1966 West Ham win the World cup! Are we singing when we're winning?
We are now!
1972 - Joy as West Ham win their 31st League title
2010 - The nadir of West Ham history, Sullivan and Gold take over, utopian football awaits
I put up with all of the childish punathons and self congratulating English language lessons for comedy moments like this - well done sir!
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1945 - David Gold is born, Hitler immediately surrenders
1951 - David Sullivan born in a barn in Nazareth, formative years spent as a carpenter making wooden dildoes and crude sculptures of dogs rutting
Thanks, Mark. It's been a long week and that's the best laugh I've had.
ditto. Mark you have been on fire this week
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I recall their not so gentle encouragement, via Brady, to boycott the Birmingham Evening Mail due to a negative story being written.
This led to a few of the street vendors being verbally and physically abused - Nice.
Also, they wanted City fans, in a full page advertisment, to boycott a couple of supermarkets (Sainsbury's and Morrison's from memory), due to them refusing to stock the Sport newspapers.
They also stated in the advert that The Daily Sport were the only organisation to offer 'cancer sufferer Bobby Moore a job.' - Classy.
A Blues supporting mate of mine told me that in one of the suites at the Blues, they had a huge painted canvas of Sullvan arms aloft with the crowd beneath him all haling him like a Caesar.
*rummages through five year old Sent Items folder*
ATTENTION ALL BIRMINGHAM CITY SUPPORTERS!
Dear Blues fans,
Over a decade ago Birmingham City was on its knees when our company Sport Newspapers stepped in. Today your club is a vibrant and successful Premiership team. And now we're asking for YOUR help. Several of the country's leading supermarkets do not sell our newspapers, The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport. It's vital to the survival of these newspapers that we are stocked in supermarkets which now command a large slice of newspaper sales. At the moment they are refusing to sell the newspapers that helped Birmingham FC in its hour of need 12 years ago. We believe there is a real demand for these newspapers and we urge all Blues fans to ask their local Asda, Morrisson's or Sainsbury's stock The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport every time they shop there. Each time you make that request, we want you to email us on stockthesport@sportnewspapers.co.uk so we can prove to the supermarkets that there really is a demand.
Yours in football,
David Sullivan, David Gold, Ralph Gold
PS: We bought a struggling team and took it to the Premiership AND we gave England's World cup winning skipper, Bobby Moore, a job as sports editor when NOBODY in football would lend him a helping hand. So now we're asking all football supporters to give us a helping hand. Thank you.
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They are scum, the worst sort of scum because they claim to have some level of respectability, it was easy to dislike them because of thier involvement with blose but actually its just so easy to dislike them because they stand for just about everything i dislike about people and i mean all 3 of them, i genuinely feel sorry for west ham the club and thier fans,
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I recall their not so gentle encouragement, via Brady, to boycott the Birmingham Evening Mail due to a negative story being written.
This led to a few of the street vendors being verbally and physically abused - Nice.
Also, they wanted City fans, in a full page advertisment, to boycott a couple of supermarkets (Sainsbury's and Morrison's from memory), due to them refusing to stock the Sport newspapers.
They also stated in the advert that The Daily Sport were the only organisation to offer 'cancer sufferer Bobby Moore a job.' - Classy.
A Blues supporting mate of mine told me that in one of the suites at the Blues, they had a huge painted canvas of Sullvan arms aloft with the crowd beneath him all haling him like a Caesar.
*rummages through five year old Sent Items folder*
ATTENTION ALL BIRMINGHAM CITY SUPPORTERS!
Dear Blues fans,
Over a decade ago Birmingham City was on its knees when our company Sport Newspapers stepped in. Today your club is a vibrant and successful Premiership team. And now we're asking for YOUR help. Several of the country's leading supermarkets do not sell our newspapers, The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport. It's vital to the survival of these newspapers that we are stocked in supermarkets which now command a large slice of newspaper sales. At the moment they are refusing to sell the newspapers that helped Birmingham FC in its hour of need 12 years ago. We believe there is a real demand for these newspapers and we urge all Blues fans to ask their local Asda, Morrisson's or Sainsbury's stock The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport every time they shop there. Each time you make that request, we want you to email us on stockthesport@sportnewspapers.co.uk so we can prove to the supermarkets that there really is a demand.
Yours in football,
David Sullivan, David Gold, Ralph Gold
PS: We bought a struggling team and took it to the Premiership AND we gave England's World cup winning skipper, Bobby Moore, a job as sports editor when NOBODY in football would lend him a helping hand. So now we're asking all football supporters to give us a helping hand. Thank you.
i've never seen or knew that before, its absolutly incredible
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I'm going to have to stop ready this thread. Some of that is utterly cringeworthy. I bloody hope they don't try that at West Ham.
They won't stay popular for very long if they do.
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I'd never seen this before, Chris Morris trying to get Sullivan to define pornography.
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I'm going to have to stop ready this thread. Some of that is utterly cringeworthy. I bloody hope they don't try that at West Ham.
They won't stay popular for very long if they do.
Sendo mate - i dont know you from Adam but you come across as a genuine fan of football as well as your team
Trust me mate - they will make you viable in the long run but they will make you a laughing stock along the way
They are some of the most dispicable people in the world of business today not just football.
Just when you think they have hit the lowest of the lows they will suprise you
In all honest do you really think that people who have made their seedy money from wank mags and dildos are going to be honourable citizens - they are scum of the earth
Oh and wait till superslut gets her gob going - you aint seen nothing yet
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I'm not going to get all hypocritical about porn, I like it. To me the most reprehensible things they've done are the detailed reporting of rape court cases for titillation, and the build up they have of girls approaching the birthday when they can legally get their kit off in the paper.
And running small heath of course.
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I'm not going to get all hypocritical about porn, I like it. To me the most reprehensible things they've done are the detailed reporting of rape court cases for titillation, and the build up they have of girls approaching the birthday when they can legally get their kit off in the paper.
And running small heath of course.
Mate i am not moralising on porn "one mans wank is another man Bentley"
Its just that for such a seedy background Sullivan portrays the typical porn baron with his cuban heals, annoying voice and atrocious dress sense. He epitomises Chav Chic - loads of money and very little class or anything else
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I'm not going to get all hypocritical about porn, I like it. To me the most reprehensible things they've done are the detailed reporting of rape court cases for titillation, and the build up they have of girls approaching the birthday when they can legally get their kit off in the paper.
And running small heath of course.
Didn't the flesh eating bug story appear as an exclusive in their paper because one of their "reporters" was hanging around the court for a Sex case and while he was waiting he happened to sit in a Coroners court reporting the death of someone from this.
Is the Sport and such still going? i haven't seen them on sale for a while but then I probably shop in Asda and they donn't stock it.
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I'm not going to get all hypocritical about porn, I like it. To me the most reprehensible things they've done are the detailed reporting of rape court cases for titillation, and the build up they have of girls approaching the birthday when they can legally get their kit off in the paper.
And running small heath of course.
Spot on Percy.
Nowt wrong with porn.
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dean ashton's insurance void and west ham liable....
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11685_5953615,00.html
Dean Ashton has confirmed financially-troubled West Ham are liable for the remainder of his lucrative contract as his insurance was void.
Ashton retired from the game aged just 26 after failing to fully recover from the ankle injury he sustained during his first England call up in August 2006.
The former Norwich and Crewe man, who cost West Ham £7.25million in 2006, last played against West Brom in August of the 2008/09 season.
Ashton was a regular for the Hammers the season before and the club's then owners handed him a lucrative five-year deal that summer.
Just 18 months later Ashton was forced to call time on his career and he has now confirmed the insurance on his troublesome ankle is void.
As Ashton was injured when West Ham renewed the insurance the company excluded that particular injury from the cover.
The striker, who was capped once by England, believes new owners David Sullivan and David Gold will be furious at having to pay out.
"In hindsight I'm sure they're ripping their hair out," explained Ashton.
"At the time I felt I was not going to have any more problems and that I'd got back to somewhere near my best and obviously (the previous owners) felt that as well.
"At the time West Ham didn't want to lose a striker. At the time five years seemed a lot.
"I had got back and played really well and was in the team every week, and I felt like I deserved a new contract.
"My insurance is void," he continued.
"There are a lot of things in your insurance where they don't have to pay you out. If you are injured when you renew it, they can obviously exclude your ankle (from cover).
"But I'm not going to harp on about insurance companies trying to fleece people.
"If they were insuring a house and the roof was knackered then obviously they wouldn't insure your roof."
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Its just that for such a seedy background Sullivan portrays the typical porn baron with his cuban heals, annoying voice and atrocious dress sense. He epitomises Chav Chic - loads of money and very little class or anything else
Yes, he's the type of person who gives porn a bad name...
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According to reports, Ashton was on £65k a week and WHU have to pay up the remaining 4 years of his 5 year contract.
It's only £13.250m. I'm not sure if they have to pay taxes and NI on top of that.
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More crap news for the Terrible Two: Jowell plays down West Ham's Olympic Stadium hopes (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8519515.stm)
I suspect we've got 18 months of moaning about how the local council aren't doing anything to support the club blah blah blah.
Poor, poor sendo.
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This I find very strange. But then again, Sullivan and Gold are nothing more than Barrow boys made good. I think they're constant babbling to the media shows a level of insecurity and is covering up any real business acumen.
They never started as high as Barrow Boys. Golds' dad was a convicted thief I believe.
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Gold and Sullivan are simply media whores. Love the sound of their own voices. What a pair of twats.
It certainly seems that way. Sullivan is like rent-a-quote at the moment. Every five minutes he's blathering on about something in the media. It says a lot about what an idiot he's being that Zola of all people slated him publicly.
If he wants to bang on about the state of the clubs finances and start trying to reduce players contracts it might be wise for him to wait until the summer when we know we've managed to avoid relegation.
I've not followed all the postings on this Sendo but i guess you are beginning to see what everyone here was banging on about.
We had Ellis for years and I guess we know one when we see one. Sadly for West Ham-you get three of them.
There's a big difference between the too. Firstly, Ellis didn't try to screw us the fans over at every opportunity.
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According to reports, Ashton was on £65k a week and WHU have to pay up the remaining 4 years of his 5 year contract.
It's only £13.250m. I'm not sure if they have to pay taxes and NI on top of that.
Tax no, NI yes which I calculate could be an additional £1.5m *chuckles*
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Sendo, have the pornsters cashed in on substitute and added time yet? Soon you'll hear a sub or added time announced at Upton Park followed by, "this substitute is sponsored by 'we'll-do-anything-for-money.com etc. And, (honestly) they do the same when the stretcher comes on for an injured player.
Trust me, you've got years of this desperate sh#t to put up with. God help you. ;-)
Or producing a diary and trying to pass Tottenham's honours off as your own.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6249213.stm
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I'm going to have to stop ready this thread. Some of that is utterly cringeworthy. I bloody hope they don't try that at West Ham.
They won't stay popular for very long if they do.
There was a BBC documentary out about them soon after they took over at B-lose, dig it out if you can. Forewarned is forearmed.
I think at one stage they even had a sponsor for Karren Brady's boots tucked away in the match programme. Utterly bizarre.
They were such a perfect fit for the B-lose, a porn merchants rabble and a load of tits.
Feel a tad sorry for the Hammers though, you lot have suffered enough.
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I'm going to have to stop ready this thread. Some of that is utterly cringeworthy. I bloody hope they don't try that at West Ham.
They won't stay popular for very long if they do.
There was a BBC documentary out about them soon after they took over at B-lose, dig it out if you can. Forewarned is forearmed.
I think at one stage they even had a sponsor for Karren Brady's boots tucked away in the match programme. Utterly bizarre.
They were such a perfect fit for the B-lose, a porn merchants rabble and a load of tits.
Feel a tad sorry for the Hammers though, you lot have suffered enough.
Oh, that was funny as fuck. I vaguely recall a scene featuring Karren watching the FA Cup draw which went something like:
FA Master of Ceremonies: Number 4, Birmingham City...
Karren: Ooh, we're at home!
FA Master of Ceremonies: Will play...
Karren: Please be Man Utd. Please be Man Utd. Please be Man Utd.
FA Master of Ceremonies: Number 55, Kidderminster Harriers (then a non-league side).
Karren: Oh. Well, at least we should be able to beat them.
You can guess the rest.
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Oh dear Sendo. I see that Gold is making a tit of himself again.
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Should we just rename this thread - "West Ham - The Gift That Keeps On Giving"
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Be warned: Rent-a-quote Gold is on 5 Live this evening making his case for getting his hands on the Olympic Stadium.
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Be warned: Rent-a-quote Gold is on 5 Live this evening making his case for getting his hands on the Olympic Stadium.
thanks for the warning, just heard it is looking at their first 30 days in charge
would any other club other than a london club with plenty of friends in the london press get this kind of coverage.
Must be great for rentagob and his dildo mate
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Be warned: Rent-a-quote Gold is on 5 Live this evening making his case for getting his hands on the Olympic Stadium.
thanks for the warning, just heard it is looking at their first 30 days in charge
would any other club other than a london club with plenty of friends in the london press get this kind of coverage.
Must be great for rentagob and his dildo mate
Those 2 have plenty enough to rescue the kitstealers but do they really want to?I'm not so sure..
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I'm guessing these comments came from the radio program
Linky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8527366.stm)
Gold being accused of being patronising at the end. Well I never. [/quote]
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They're forever looking at free stadiums these guys.
They never succeeded with Blose, and it looks like they won't succeed with West Ham.
They are boring me !
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Really, Tim? They entertain the hell out of me!
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"One other possibility is to abandon the athletic idea altogether and maybe build a small athletics stadium that can be used for ever," he said.
"Not as an Olympic athletics stadium but a regional stadium with seating facility commensurate to their requirements which would be about 5,000."
That's just plain stupid.
Why not give West Ham the Olympic Stadium, use St.Andrews for Athletics and move the Blues into the 5,000 seater?
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Its an Athletics Stadium and you've been telt, now fuck off Tumnus you cackbeard.
If they give this stadium to them I want a tax rebate and I'll press this issue although the way to Parliament!
I wont of course, but it sounds purposeful.
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"One other possibility is to abandon the athletic idea altogether and maybe build a small athletics stadium that can be used for ever," he said.
"Not as an Olympic athletics stadium but a regional stadium with seating facility commensurate to their requirements which would be about 5,000."
That's just plain stupid.
Why not give West Ham the Olympic Stadium, use St.Andrews for Athletics and move the Blues into the 5,000 seater?
I've just seen that quote on BBC.
Yes, we'll swap you your 80,000 seater stadium for a regional one that seats 5,000. This guy really has a nerve.
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I don't know why he wants this so much. The stadium isn't set up for football, we'd still have to spend a lot of money adding more seats to increase the planned 25k, not to mention having to rent the ground from Newham council. Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
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Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
Maybe they want to remind themselves of old times.
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I don't know why he wants this so much. The stadium isn't set up for football, we'd still have to spend a lot of money adding more seats to increase the planned 25k, not to mention having to rent the ground from Newham council. Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
isn't the plan to sell Upton Park and with that money use it to turn it into a proper football stadium ?
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He wants it Sendo, to maximise revenue and whilst it may not have reared it ugly head yet, you can bet the Olympic super Casino wont be far behind.
Dont for one minute think these gobshites care what the atmosphere is like. Their MO is make money and get themselves in the public eye. And make themsleves a fucking laughing stock in the process. But they dont seem to care.
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I don't know why he wants this so much. The stadium isn't set up for football, we'd still have to spend a lot of money adding more seats to increase the planned 25k, not to mention having to rent the ground from Newham council. Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
isn't the plan to sell Upton Park and with that money use it to turn it into a proper football stadium ?
Upton Park is a shithole. I can't see that land going for much. They're hardly going to build luxury apartments there, even if you could get a nice view of Canary Wharf from the penthouse.
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I don't know why he wants this so much. The stadium isn't set up for football, we'd still have to spend a lot of money adding more seats to increase the planned 25k, not to mention having to rent the ground from Newham council. Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
isn't the plan to sell Upton Park and with that money use it to turn it into a proper football stadium ?
Upton Park is a shithole. I can't see that land going for much. They're hardly going to build luxury apartments there, even if you could get a nice view of Canary Wharf from the penthouse.
Prime land, not too far from some recently redeveloped areas and improved transport links and the new financial centre of London. At the moment though with global crunch it will be crap but in theory, 3 years down the line it could fetch loads. TBH I think this is the real reason for them purchasing Spam and not the "love for the team".
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I don't know why he wants this so much. The stadium isn't set up for football, we'd still have to spend a lot of money adding more seats to increase the planned 25k, not to mention having to rent the ground from Newham council. Add to that the fact that it is a shitty open topped dome in which you'll be miles from the pitch and there would be no atmosphere at all.
They want it sendo because Newham council were granted one of the eight 'Large Casino' licenses.
For the same reasons, they wanted to do the same with Small Heath, by relocating to Solihull, who were also granted a large casino license.
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There was a female athlete on Radio 5 earlier this evening, having a good moan about this. She was basically saying that even though she's a football fan [Arsenal], why should football always get its own way, and that athletics really needed this stadium.
I try not to take too much interest in Gold & Sullivan, but can't help feeling they need football more than football needs them. They're publicity whores, imo.
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There was a female athlete on Radio 5 earlier this evening, having a good moan about this. She was basically saying that even though she's a football fan [Arsenal], why should football always get its own way, and that athletics really needed this stadium.
I try not to take too much interest in Gold & Sullivan, but can't help feeling they need football more than football needs them. They're publicity whores, imo.
Yes, but it's worse than that. They were content to yoyo between divisions whilst robbing their own fans as well as fans from other clubs without any ambition or intention of seriously investing in the team or the stadium, simply so they could walk away trousering millions. Now they will do the same at West Ham if they can get away with it. Odious pair of money grabbing spivs.
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Their biggest problem now is getting their money back from West Ham. It won't be pretty.
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The casino thing makes sense. It's a gamble every time we play anyway.
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The casino thing makes sense. It's a gamble every time we play anyway.
Its no joke mate - we know what these fuckers are like close up - if it was my club they had bought i would be shitting myself at this moment
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The casino thing makes sense. It's a gamble every time we play anyway.
Its no joke mate - we know what these fuckers are like close up - if it was my club they had bought i would be shitting myself at this moment
To be fair to them, yes they took their fair share of money out of the noses and I'd be more than happy to see them slide into lower league obscurity, but they also left them on a sound footing. The same as Doug did to us.
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The casino thing makes sense. It's a gamble every time we play anyway.
Its no joke mate - we know what these fuckers are like close up - if it was my club they had bought i would be shitting myself at this moment
To be fair to them, yes they took their fair share of money out of the noses and I'd be more than happy to see them slide into lower league obscurity, but they also left them on a sound footing. The same as Doug did to us.
If the best bit about your new owners is that they're like Doug - I'd be worried!
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If I were a West Ham fan I would be delighted that we weren't gooing out of business......still time though!
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The casino thing makes sense. It's a gamble every time we play anyway.
Its no joke mate - we know what these fuckers are like close up - if it was my club they had bought i would be shitting myself at this moment
To be fair to them, yes they took their fair share of money out of the noses and I'd be more than happy to see them slide into lower league obscurity, but they also left them on a sound footing. The same as Doug did to us.
If the best bit about your new owners is that they're like Doug - I'd be worried!
Similar thing to us under Terrence Brown. He was disliked because he'd shit granite he was such a tight arse, but he left the club in a good state despite relegation. Compare and contrast to the Icelandic administratoin...
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Similar thing to us under Terrence Brown. He was disliked because he'd shit granite he was that tight but he left the club in a good state despite relegation. Compare and contrast to the Icelandic administratoin...
*takes mental note to steal and use that phrase at earliest opportunity*
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He's gobbing off again (from Soccernet):
WEST HAM UNITED NEWS
Sullivan: Hammers planned player fire sale
By Harry Harris, Football Correspondent
March 1, 2010
West Ham United would have been forced to sell £8 million worth of players in January, £16 million in the summer and £20 million if they were relegated had the club not fallen into new hands, co-owner David Sullivan told Soccernet.
(http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/design05/images/2010/0227/davidsullivanwestham20100227_275x155.jpg)
David Sullivan: West Ham co-owner
On the day Portsmouth were due back in court for a Revenue winding up order, having already gone into administration, the true extent of the financial meltdown at Upton Park was disclosed by the club's new co-owner.
Sullivan told Soccernet: "The strategy for survival was in place in case there wasn't a takeover, and we were told that it meant that £8 million worth of players had to be sold in January, which would have meant a player like Scott Parker or Carlton Cole going, or maybe even both.
"Then in the summer, the club would have needed to sell £16 million worth of players to carry on surviving, having budgeted to finish 10th in the Premier League, but it might have been more like £20 million if they had been relegated.
"It would have reached the stage where the club would have had no one left of any consequence, but when people are desperate they had to design desperate measures.
"For West Ham it wouldn't have been long before they would have run out of players to sell. Yet Straumer had put in £7.9 million to keep the club afloat on top of all the debts."
When Sullivan and David Gold took over the running of the club in January there were debts of £110 million.
Sullivan said: "We have already trimmed that down to £95 million, as we have paid of some of the debts with a few little deals, so slowly we are making some progress.
"But we have to look at the situation in realistic terms. This club had lost £20 million, £40 million and £20 million in the last three years and there are another £20 million losses this year.
"Ultimately we have to break even, but that is going to take some effort as we are heading for £20 million losses this year again. So, you can see the first big task is to stabilise the club to give it a brighter future.
"We came in and bought players, saved the club from being forced to sell players, and now we are quite capable of staying up, and quite capable of surviving."
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A million West Ham fans???
From the Daily Mail:
Shameless West Ham owner David Sullivan calls on fans to loosen the purse strings
By Sportsmail Reporter Last updated at 7:07 PM on 16th March 2010
Shameless West Ham co-owner David Sullivan is pleading with their million armchair supporters to spend some money on the club and help them get out of their financial mess.
Sullivan and David Gold are desperate to ease the crippling £110m debt which they inherited from the former Icelandic owners when they took control of the club back in January.
Sullivan has no doubts that West Ham can become a major European force within the next seven years but they need all their fan base to plough some much needed money back into the club as the majority choose to stay away from Upton Park.
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/16/article-0-06AF1206000005DC-556_306x423.jpg)
Shameless: Sullivan puts on his fisting gloves
With West Ham facing a major relegation dogfight, Sullivan has stressed the importance of their fans playing a major role in helping them to retain their Premier League status.
Sullivan said: 'We have a million supporters who probably haven't seen us play in the last ten years and I bet 950,000 of them haven't even bought any club merchandise.
'However, these million people would still highly regard themselves as West Ham fans.
'David Gold and I are typical of maybe a million Hammers fans. Other than when Birmingham maybe played West Ham, we never saw them in the last 20 years. But, still we regarded ourselves as West Ham fans.
'As our accounts published, the club is in a mess, but with the help of our million supporters, we will dig ourselves out of it.
'Within five to seven years I believe we can be a power in British and European football. We expect to make progress season on season until we become a great side again.
'We need the help now of our million armchair-supporters because we know they are just that - supporters.
'Come to a game before the end of the season, buy something from the club shops, visit our website or use a West Ham credit card. We need everyone to do something for the club we all love.'
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I'm pretty certain the Daily Mail weren't responsible for the "Sullivan puts on his fisting gloves" bit. I wonder what the PRL on his coat stands for? I'll open the bidding with Priapic Runty Leech.
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Porno Rich Loudmouth.
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I'm pretty certain the Daily Mail weren't responsible for the "Sullivan puts on his fisting gloves" bit. I wonder what the PRL on his coat stands for? I'll open the bidding with Priapic Runty Leech.
Ok, so I took a little artistic licence.
As for the PRL....People's Republic of Leprechauns.
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They're publicity whores, imo.
In a nutshell. It's always the little dogs that yap the loudest.
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I think the other 950,000 fans are supporting Chelsea or Spurs at the moment. Can't blame the bastards.
It'd be interested to see if that number is actually accurate, and how many of them are really classed as supporters, and not people like my missus who was told that she had to agree to be a West Ham fan or find another fella.
I read somewhere a few years back that we had approx 750,000 UK fans, but then I have no idea how accurate that was.
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Interesting how many times he says the "million fans" bit, like if he says it often enough it becomes true. See also "Newcastle have the best fans in football", "Birmingham City are the best-supported team in Birmingham", "Emile Heskey is a centre-forward".
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anyone else really enjoying this, seeing Sullivan and Gold squirm
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Why do they keep on bloody going on about the sodding Olympic Stadium? They have been told countless times that they won't be getting it yet they go on about it again and again.
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Like your kids saying "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?"
Eventually you just give in to them and say "Yes, we are for Christ's sake. And here's an Olympic Stadium for you."
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Why do they keep on bloody going on about the sodding Olympic Stadium? They have been told countless times that they won't be getting it yet they go on about it again and again.
They seem to have worked on the project proposal and are now getting some encouraging feedback from the local council, as well as the Olympic body responsible for the future of the arena.
It may just happen.
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Why do they keep on bloody going on about the sodding Olympic Stadium? They have been told countless times that they won't be getting it yet they go on about it again and again.
They seem to have worked on the project proposal and are now getting some encouraging feedback from the local council, as well as the Olympic body responsible for the future of the arena.
It may just happen.
it actually has to happen to prevent the stadium becoming a white elephant. The problem being and it was clear the stadium had be used for top class atheletics, thus the need for a running track which all fans hate. From what I understand to have a removeable runnilng track would cost 10's if not 100's of millions and West Ham do not have that.
If it is not used for athletics then some of the funding bodies would ask for their money back, from West Ham and Gold/Sullivan as we saw at Blues wants a stadium for free.
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anyone else really enjoying this, seeing Sullivan and Gold squirm
I was thinking of recording it on sky+....
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Ah go on taxpayers, build them their stadium. Athletics isnt a real sport anyway according to Cackbeard. And dont worry about the running track. Just have the athletes run from one end of the pitch to the other as many times as needed.
In fact, forget the Olympics. Just have a sports day at the all new Ann Summers Sodom and Gomorrah Dome (£80 in). I'm sure Usain Bolt would be just as happy in a Sack race or Welly wang.
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Its no joke mate - we know what these fuckers are like close up - if it was my club they had bought i would be shitting myself at this moment
100% true. They are seriously rotten to the core.
Already they are starting the 'dig deep to help the club' shite exactly as they did at Blose. A pair of chancers who are only out for themselves. I've got time for West Ham so beware Sendo. Do not get taken in by them.
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Brady was in the paper this morning, talking about how West Ham and Newham Council were bursting with new and innovative ideas fopr the olympic stadium.
She even managed to mention the "People's Club" and "Community" in the article as well. To be honest, I think she just dug up an old interview and substituted the words "Blues" with "West Ham"
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She's there purely to try and get the OS for the club. If we go down it'll be totally pointless anyway, I can't see us filling out 60k+ for the visit of Doncaster.
I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
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You learn fast, sendo.
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I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
Razzle, the long standing "art pamphlet" for the grubby-fingered man in the street, has always been published by Paul Raymond. It's not one of Sullivan's titles
Now, if you'd said "for a song and a copy of (the now defunct)Whitehouse magazine......." then you'd be talking
erm, so my mate tells me
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I really wished that they had stayed with the Blues. Laugh a minute
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She's there purely to try and get the OS for the club. If we go down it'll be totally pointless anyway, I can't see us filling out 60k+ for the visit of Doncaster.
I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
Think you'll be okay Sendo - Hull, Burnley and Pompey look a lot worse.
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She's there purely to try and get the OS for the club. If we go down it'll be totally pointless anyway, I can't see us filling out 60k+ for the visit of Doncaster.
I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
Think you'll be okay Sendo - Hull, Burnley and Pompey look a lot worse.
I thought that up until last night, West Ham were the worst team I've seen all season.
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Wet Spam are dropping like a rock having lost their last 5 games. Hard to see them picking up more than 6pts at most from their remaining games. Its hard to see where Burnley or Hull are going to pick up points too so could go to last game of the season and goal difference could keep the Hammers up.
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Wet Spam are dropping like a rock having lost their last 5 games. Hard to see them picking up more than 6pts at most from their remaining games. Its hard to see where Burnley or Hull are going to pick up points too so could go to last game of the season and goal difference could keep the Hammers up.
The Hammers play Man City on the last day of the season.
Relegated by Tevez?
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I like your thinking Paulie!
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She's there purely to try and get the OS for the club. If we go down it'll be totally pointless anyway, I can't see us filling out 60k+ for the visit of Doncaster.
I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
Think you'll be okay Sendo - Hull, Burnley and Pompey look a lot worse.
agreed, West Ham wont go down, they might be bad but like you say the others are walking championship players already.
sadly it'l all be a load of overblown hype, and when they stay up, as they surely will, sullivan and gold will play the part of the savoiurs of West Ham for all its worth.
every time someone questions them, it will be 'remember when we took over, you were nearly relegated' 'you owe us big time'
i actually dont mind West Ham for a london club, but just cant stand the evil twins, so i hope everything bad happens to there club.
sorry sendo
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She's there purely to try and get the OS for the club. If we go down it'll be totally pointless anyway, I can't see us filling out 60k+ for the visit of Doncaster.
I think the Porn Daddies are banking on us going down anyway, so that they can clear the deadwood and players on expensive wages, and get the other half of the club for a song and a copy of razzle.
Think you'll be okay Sendo - Hull, Burnley and Pompey look a lot worse.
I thought that up until last night, West Ham were the worst team I've seen all season.
Would have been smashing if they hadn't taken five rather important potential points away from us.
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Boo hoo hoo (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/25/david-sullivan-west-ham-open-letter)
David Sullivan, the joint-chairman of West Ham United, has posted an emotional open letter to the fans on the club's website. The letter, written after Tuesday night's 3-1 home defeat to Wolves, and looking ahead to another home fixture against Stoke on Saturday, calls on the club's fans to get behind the team, who have lost their last five games. The letter is reproduced in full below:
I am writing this on Wednesday morning. I had no sleep last night, having watched the shambolic performance by the team against Wolves.
I was as angry and upset as every supporter in the stadium at the disorganised way we played, allowing Wolves too much space so that they looked more like Manchester United. This was the culmination of five defeats in a row, including an appalling performance against Bolton.
We have a few very talented players in our team, but it is a very unbalanced squad. Individually we have some very good players, but this is not being converted into a good team performance. Nobody at the club should delude themselves that we are a good team. The table at this stage of the season does not lie.
However, with some of the outstanding players we have, we can and must do better as a team. I apologise to every supporter for the pathetic showing on Tuesday night but I fully expect a dramatic improvement as we have so much individual talent.
I accept that the club is in deep relegation trouble. However, we are a long way from being relegated. With your help we can get out of this and regroup in the summer.
This is a difficult time. It has been a week to regret but Saturday's result can change that. We need a win, we need you to support us, to forgive us the result against Wolves and to remember what this great club is about.
The history and tradition of West Ham United, the heritage and the prestige demands we are a Premier League club. But we have no right to that. We have to earn it. The Academy of Football? Now we have to show that. The manager knows, I know, the players know.
When I first started supporting West Ham, we had a tradition for playing the game "the right way". I will settle for any way right now, as long as it is the winning way!
We all have our favourite players, our heroes. Older fans can remember players like Bobby Moore, Sir Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters – the cornerstone of England's 1966 World Cup win. I know rival teams mock us West Ham fans for saying that, but one was the captain, another scored a hat-trick, the other scored the fourth. That sounds like a claret and blue contribution to me.
Younger supporters will probably look to strikers such as Frank McAvennie and Tony Cottee as well as Paolo Di Canio. They all brought something special to the club.
Then there was Sir Trevor Brooking, Billy Bonds, Alan Taylor, Bryan "Pop" Robson, Phil Parkes, Alvin Martin and Ray Stewart. We didn't win much but there was always a quality and a style. Another hero to watch: a midfield playmaker, a little wizard on the wing, a goalscorer.
Now we need this team to show their quality.
Now we need this team to show us their talent, their desire, their passion, their dare.
Now we need new heroes.
Saturday may be tense, on Saturday you will feel anxious and, at times, unsettled. I ask that we try not to transmit that on to the field, that we get behind the team and provide them with a platform. The rest is up to them.
It's hard being an owner. I'm finding it's harder being an owner who is a supporter. I hope for happier times soon.
Thank you for sharing the same vision and dreams.
Come on West Ham.
David Sullivan
Joint-Chairman
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What a fucking lunatic.
And he forgot to mention Julian Dicks in the list of West Ham legends that he obviously looked up on Wikipedia
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I had a big grin on my face reading that.
I imagine Zola saying whatever Italian is for "What the fuck?"
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I had a big grin on my face reading that.
I imagine Zola saying whatever Italian is for "What the fuck?"
I fucking feel sorry for West Ham, I really do.
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It must be great for a manager to have his chairman pontificating on the way the team plays on the club web site.
What a silly little gobshite Sullivan is. Does he ever just keep his mouth shut?
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It must be great for a manager to have his chairman pontificating on the way the team plays on the club web site.
What a silly little gobshite Sullivan is. Does he ever just keep his mouth shut?
No he doesn't and neither does his missus.
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It must be great for a manager to have his chairman pontificating on the way the team plays on the club web site.
What a silly little gobshite Sullivan is. Does he ever just keep his mouth shut?
No he doesn't and neither does his missus.
trying to find a safe shot of his Mrs to put on here, impossible !!
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Dear God, Sendo. Its like a time capsule has transported me back to when the scumbags took the Blues over.
You poor, poor bastards.
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It must be great for a manager to have his chairman pontificating on the way the team plays on the club web site.
What a silly little gobshite Sullivan is. Does he ever just keep his mouth shut?
No he doesn't and neither does his missus.
trying to find a safe shot of his Mrs to put on here, impossible !!
Stick to the Money Shot ones then ;¬)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkCJDkG3fg#t=0m26s
I've got that as a ringtone, wondered where it had come from!
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Put money on a Stoke victory at the weekend.
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From The Fiver:
EVERYTHING MUST GO
That almost everything is for sale under the newish West Ham regime will come as no surprise to those who saw legendary filth facilitator David Sullivan cede what little dignity he had left when he took over at Upton Park in January dressed as an appreciably less attractive version of Hugh Hefner, complete with the same burgundy smoking jacket that Hefner nicked off Larry David and with roving eyes that could lift up your skirt from a thousand yards daahhhhlin. This 'everything must go, especially those panties swee'heart' ethos reached its logical conclusion today when West Ham put everyone up for sale, except Scott Parker.
"Fans were terrified they would lose their best players; we can assure them that is not going to happen," Sullivan said when he and David Gold took over the club in January. Clearly Sullivan and Gold – or Sold for short, or Pair of Bongo-Milking Chancers if you prefer - have subsequently decided that they only have one decent player; either that or he's been makin' false pwomises, the wrongun.
"Other than Scott Parker, there is not a player we wouldn't sell if it was the right bid," Sullivan said last night. "Scott will not be sold and we will be buying more than we are selling." So everyone's for sale but they won't be selling many players. It's as if this is a meaningless, crowd-pleasing gesture that's more transparent than the grundies in one of Sullivan's blockbusters. Either that or they realise that most clubs wouldn't touch the likes of Kieron Dyer and Big-Boned Benni with your coin.
The attempts to buy started with a cheeky £4m bid for West Brom's Graham Dorrans, which has been turned down. "I want to make it clear again that Graham Dorrans is not for sale," said the West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace, fulfilling the first part of a lifetime dream to appear in David Hills's Said & Done column. With gobs as habitually open as Sold, we suspect it won't be long before they're in Said & Done either.
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Dirty filthy pornographers that Sullivan and those Golds.I think its dispicable the way they were able to build up their fortunes with all that filth being churned out to satisfy the masturabatory instincts of the young british male population and dirty old men in raincoats.I remember the dirty raincoat brigade round the jacey cinema,I was only there I assure you having been wrongly directed for the arts lab at gosta green.I was shocked by what i saw in there but not half as shocked as the one time i bought a copy of Whitehouse,i thought it was the campaigning magazine for the National Viewers and Listeners Assocaiton!
When I was in my late teens I can assure you I never knowingly bought those horrible publications of theirs.Not if I could get hold of the proper scandanavian stuff anyway.
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Gold was in the paper this morning, talking ( again) about how Seb Coe should give West Ham the Olympic Stadium. He reckons the ground can be used for the next "500 years".
He also managed to throw in the old " I love Upton Park - I was brought up round the corner" mantra.
he said that the stadium could be used for football, athletics and....20/20 cricket!!!
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He failed to mention the Casino and Lap dancing bar he would also add to give the all-round one stop shop family experience.
Seriously cackbeard, get the fuck off this planet and take that sawn off cockholster with you.
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He failed to mention how West Ham actually play at the BOLEYN GROUND and not Upton Park.
We're only about 3 months into their ownership and we're all already sick of hearing from them.
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I just hope you can survive them, mate.
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David Gold is nothing but a hypocritical, two faced arsehole.
He's forever coming out with 'i was born round the corner from Upton Park, We used to sneak in at half time, i'm from a working class east end family blah blah blah.
However, he thinks nothing of conducting every interview either in front of his helicopter or in the gardens of his mansion and he happily charges £50 for a match ticket.
Sendo, you have my deepest sympathy.
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Again, from The Fiver:
THE NUMEROUS HEADS OF THE BEAST
West Ham co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan today took time off from practising their tedious and counter-productive good cop/bad cop routine and proving that incessant carping about the nefarious influence of foreign owners on English football can't hide the fact that some English owners are pompous clowns with more crushed velvet burgundy blazers than sense, and issued a 10-point plan for the future of the Premier League's most lowly London club.
Top of the list was the intention to appoint a "high-calibre manager with the necessary experience to deliver good football and, most importantly, results." No other requirements were specified but the Fiver believes that the club is looking for a man who has no objection to trying to work while being relentlessly stalked by an insatiable polycephalic beast named Gollivan, who, to thicken the plot, is abetted by a noisy iron lady who styles herself as a sort of agony aunt for the football industry but actually comes across as a plain old pain in the backside.
Gollivan has announced it has already devised a shortlist and, in a move that could lead to Greenland authorities launching a campaign against skinny dipping in Baffin Bay, Blackeye Rovers have issued a "hands off Sam Allardyce" plea. Ailsa from Home and Away and Zecond-Deutsch Zteve have previously indicated they don't fancy placing their head on the Boleyn Ground chopping block but, happily for Gollivan, Portsmouth's administrator, whose name the Fiver really couldn't be bothered looking up again because let's face it who cares, has reportedly let it be known that he will not stand in the way of any attempt to take Avram Grant off Pompey's pay-nowandagain-roll. Defiance in the face of farcical disintegration made Grant a folk hero at Fratton Park. It will be interesting to see whether he is allowed to become similarly popular at Upton Park, or must West Ham remain all about Gollivan.
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I like the name Gollivan!
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It makes you wonder, why should someone who was allegedly spotted seeking the services of prostitutes be wanted by Gold and Sullivan?
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It'd be a great piece of business if they could agree to pay him with brasses.
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Sendo mate
If you thought last season was a painful one well you will not have seen anything yet with this pair
I pity all of you mate
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Well they sacked Zola so they aren't doing all that bad.
I can suffer the fact that they are both clearly total bellends as long as they invest in the team and back the manager.
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That's total, utter and complete bellends to be accurate.
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Well they sacked Zola so they aren't doing all that bad.
I can suffer the fact that they are both clearly total bellends as long as they invest in the team and back the manager.
I am not sure of any previous Blues manager that has ever said
"I have the funds to buy who i want / need"
"I have the backing of the board"
"They are a great bunch of people to work for"
"They never interefered in team / player affairs"
They are the most self opinionated, chavvy, classless knobs ever to grace the game - they make Simon Jordan look like Ghandi.
We actually miss em up here as the Blues may one day get their collective heads together and look like a proper team - whilst the devils disciples were there it would never have happened - ever
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It was a pretty shocking way to get rid of Zola though Sendo.
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It was a pretty shocking way to get rid of Zola though Sendo.
Not to mention allegedly publicising players wages / contracts
Trying not to pay a player who was almost knifed to death
Telling whoever the next mug is to manage for them that they have decided to put every player bar one up for sale - unless you were out of work or depserate who in thier right mind would want to work for them after that
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Never a dull moment. The last decade or so at West Ham puts Harchester United to shame.
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Never a dull moment. The last decade or so at West Ham puts Harchester United to shame.
You even had a Carl Fletcher play for you.
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unless you were out of work or depserate who in thier right mind would want to work for them after that
Oooh, oooh, pick me.....I know the answer to this one!!!
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These guys make Simon Jordan ( ex Palace) look almost professional.
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Never a dull moment. The last decade or so at West Ham puts Harchester United to shame.
You even had a Carl Fletcher play for you.
Lots of rumour flying around regarding him and a certain West Ham manager at the time which appeared to have come straight from an episode of Dream Team.
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Sullivan admits Klose woe
Hammers likely to miss out on Germany international
Last updated: 7th July 2010
(http://img.skysports.com/10/05/800x600/Klose_2459104.jpg)
Klose: West Ham target
West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has revealed the club had a deal in place to sign Miroslav Klose before his excellent World Cup campaign.
The 32-year-old Bayern Munich striker has been in top form for Germany this summer, and is only one goal away from equalling Ronaldo's record of 15 in World Cup tournaments.
Klose hardly played for Bayern last season and Sullivan says he was ready to make the switch to Upton Park before the start of the next campaign.
But following his goalscoring exploits in South Africa, a number of Europe's top clubs are now thought to be sniffing around him.
Sullivan believes a deal is unlikely. He told Soccernet: "We had a deal in place before the World Cup, after he had a bad season in Germany.
"However, as a result of what he has done at the World Cup, it's unlikely to happen."
Klose scored just six goals in 38 appearances for Bayern Munich last term, but it remains to be seen if the Bundesliga outfit will now be willing to sell.
His contract at the Allianz Arena is due to expire next summer, having signed for the club in 2007 from Werder Bremen.
So, they porn-peddlers had a deal. But not really????
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Sullivan admits Klose woe
Hammers likely to miss out on Germany international
Last updated: 7th July 2010
(http://img.skysports.com/10/05/800x600/Klose_2459104.jpg)
Klose: West Ham target
West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has revealed the club had a deal in place to sign Miroslav Klose before his excellent World Cup campaign.
The 32-year-old Bayern Munich striker has been in top form for Germany this summer, and is only one goal away from equalling Ronaldo's record of 15 in World Cup tournaments.
Klose hardly played for Bayern last season and Sullivan says he was ready to make the switch to Upton Park before the start of the next campaign.
But following his goalscoring exploits in South Africa, a number of Europe's top clubs are now thought to be sniffing around him.
Sullivan believes a deal is unlikely. He told Soccernet: "We had a deal in place before the World Cup, after he had a bad season in Germany.
"However, as a result of what he has done at the World Cup, it's unlikely to happen."
Klose scored just six goals in 38 appearances for Bayern Munich last term, but it remains to be seen if the Bundesliga outfit will now be willing to sell.
His contract at the Allianz Arena is due to expire next summer, having signed for the club in 2007 from Werder Bremen.
So, they porn-peddlers had a deal. But not really????
If 38 games is classed as hardly playing, then how long in the German season??
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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.
Well, if you consider 4'5" 'high' then yes, I suppose he did.
Ctnwaut.
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mouth from the south at it again...
nothing more than soundbites to make it look like they are "competing", to sell season tickets...
the same thing with that kid from brazil, the ridiculous links to henry and the like...
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They don't change do they.
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Linked to a Froggy striker for £12million.
I'm sure a week ago that they were linked with him for £1.2million.
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Sullivan yesterday. Urging West Ham fans not to panic.....criticising the foreign players they signed in the summer ( not all of them though, just "1 or 2").
Will he ever learn to keep his mouth shut? every time he opens it he seems to offend someone
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23875562-david-sullivan-urges-west-hams-supporters-to-keep-the-faith.do
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Sullivan yesterday. Urging West Ham fans not to panic.....criticising the foreign players they signed in the summer ( not all of them though, just "1 or 2").
Will he ever learn to keep his mouth shut? every time he opens it he seems to offend someone
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23875562-david-sullivan-urges-west-hams-supporters-to-keep-the-faith.do
What a magnificent photograph that is.
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What a magnificent photograph that is.
sums him up perfectly.
Am I being stupid or does he have a Juventus badge on the soles of those disgraceful shoes he's wearing
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Sullivan yesterday. Urging West Ham fans not to panic.....criticising the foreign players they signed in the summer ( not all of them though, just "1 or 2").
Will he ever learn to keep his mouth shut? every time he opens it he seems to offend someone
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard-sport/football/article-23875562-david-sullivan-urges-west-hams-supporters-to-keep-the-faith.do
What a magnificent photograph that is.
Indeed. Just look at the number of porn films he has racked up on the book shelves behind him.
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Have a go at all the DVD box-sets on the wall. Filthy bastard!
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Those shoes are horrific.
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I think he might be my favourite person ever.
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My pre-season guess on them going down looks like a wise prediction.
That picture is brilliant. Just so unbelievably grotesquely hilarious. I feel sorry for every Hammer out there.
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Really do miss the comedy value of Sullivan, Gold & Mrs Pesch,
The throwing of the toys out the pram, when the council dont drop everything & build em a new ground,
The spin of Gold, & every sycophantic "interview" with Tom Ross.
& Mrs Pesch,s attempts at becoming a celeb,
It will all end in tears, hopefully....
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Indeed. Just look at the number of porn films he has racked up on the book shelves behind him.
Got, got, got, need, got, need, got, got, need....
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They're really ingratiating themselves with the West Ham supporters:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/10/west-ham-lyall-greenwood
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That really is an atrocious way to treat the legacy of the club. They haven't got a clue at all.
I wonder when the West Ham fans will begin to genuinely wish for another takeover.
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That really is an atrocious way to treat the legacy of the club. They haven't got a clue at all.
I wonder when the West Ham fans will begin to genuinely wish for another takeover.
Well judging by the few Hammers fans i know they were wishing as soon as Mr Tumnus and his circus of erotica wheeled into The Boleyn Ground
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The three of them really are horrible, horrible little people
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The three of them really are horrible, horrible little people
But endless sources of entertainment.
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The three of them really are horrible, horrible little people
But endless sources of entertainment.
""There's a circus in the town......""