Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: N'ZMAV on September 21, 2012, 11:50:26 AM
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moan moan moan... (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2012/09/21/david-sullivan-claims-aston-villa-treated-him-and-fellow-west-ham-directors-appallingly-97319-31880950/)
Former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan has hit out at football’s money culture claiming foreign owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner are only in the country to make money.
The colourful Cockney with an estimated fortune of £500m and owner of 100 sex shops sold Birmingham City to Chinese businessman Carson Yeung, a deal which has since turned sour for the Midland team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the influx of foreign owners in the Premier League he said:” Randy Lerner is here to make money. The Americans at Man United and Liverpool are here to make money. The Sunderland guy has a strategy to make money.”
'There are good examples of foreign ownership, “ he said. “Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour are in it for the fun. It's a hobby.”
Sullivan owns West Ham United with David Sullivan his friend and fellow former Birmingham City director David Gold.
His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
He stated: “Aston Villa, put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans. We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham City.
“We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn't prepared to stoop to their level.”
“At West Ham we've got the best boardroom in the Premier League. We give the visiting directors the best table, right in the middle. It's the friendliest. It's lovely.”
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did he not make any money from the sale of Blues then ?
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(http://all-the-voucher-codes.com/images/2012/07/boohoo-july_oo-oy_0.jpg)
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Any chance we could get David Sullivan a membership in H & V? We could ask him questions like we used to do with the General. I'm sure his thoughts on wrestling in the mud with pigs would be very interesting.
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He's just moaning because the last time West Ham played at Villa we hammered them 3-0.
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moan moan moan... (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2012/09/21/david-sullivan-claims-aston-villa-treated-him-and-fellow-west-ham-directors-appallingly-97319-31880950/)
Former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan has hit out at football’s money culture claiming foreign owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner are only in the country to make money.
The colourful Cockney with an estimated fortune of £500m and owner of 100 sex shops sold Birmingham City to Chinese businessman Carson Yeung, a deal which has since turned sour for the Midland team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the influx of foreign owners in the Premier League he said:” Randy Lerner is here to make money. The Americans at Man United and Liverpool are here to make money. The Sunderland guy has a strategy to make money.”
'There are good examples of foreign ownership, “ he said. “Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour are in it for the fun. It's a hobby.”
Sullivan owns West Ham United with David Sullivan his friend and fellow former Birmingham City director David Gold.
His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
He stated: “Aston Villa, put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans. We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham City.
“We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn't prepared to stoop to their level.”
“At West Ham we've got the best boardroom in the Premier League. We give the visiting directors the best table, right in the middle. It's the friendliest. It's lovely.”
Who's he think he's kidding, Abramovich & Mansour only in it for the fun, I don't think so, although money is no object to them.
Gold & Sullivan aren't in it for the money are they, of course not just fun for them !!!
It seems like they are still smarting from the General's comments, shame they are unable to move on.
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if he doesn't like it, he can always stay away, he wont be missed!
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moan moan moan... (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2012/09/21/david-sullivan-claims-aston-villa-treated-him-and-fellow-west-ham-directors-appallingly-97319-31880950/)
Former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan has hit out at football’s money culture claiming foreign owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner are only in the country to make money.
The colourful Cockney with an estimated fortune of £500m and owner of 100 sex shops sold Birmingham City to Chinese businessman Carson Yeung, a deal which has since turned sour for the Midland team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the influx of foreign owners in the Premier League he said:” Randy Lerner is here to make money. The Americans at Man United and Liverpool are here to make money. The Sunderland guy has a strategy to make money.”
'There are good examples of foreign ownership, “ he said. “Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour are in it for the fun. It's a hobby.”
Sullivan owns West Ham United with David Sullivan his friend and fellow former Birmingham City director David Gold.
His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
He stated: “Aston Villa, put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans. We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham City.
“We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn't prepared to stoop to their level.”
“At West Ham we've got the best boardroom in the Premier League. We give the visiting directors the best table, right in the middle. It's the friendliest. It's lovely.”
He's a cock.
Mansour & Abramovich are in it for fun?wtf ??? This tool has not got a clue. ALL & I repeat ALL owners are in this to make money, hence why they are called "businessmen".
Then he tries a little wind up about us. Obviously in his perfect little bubble world, he doesn't expect any abuse whatsoever from us because of his Blues connections? really?
Again, he's a cock
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I'm sure Randy is really concerned about this.
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This is a quote from the original article (here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2206369/David-Sullivan-Were-paying-Andy-Carrolls-wages-West-Ham-fans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml))
‘Now, if the king of Saudi Arabia wants to buy West Ham we would happily step aside for the good of the club. But we wouldn’t step aside for a mystery foreign buyer whose financial resources we have no knowledge of.’
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Massive respect to Randolph......Sullivan is just a horrid little porn goblin with a massive chip on his shoulder
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I truly detest that cretin..
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If anything, he's determined to bring us in to any conversation he has with anyone. It's like they're obssessed with us...
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Cheeky cnut!
He spends all his time at the sty with his cohorts trying to get the council to build him a ground while RL goes about spending his own money on state of the art training facilities and ground improvements.
Lerner has put more into the restoration of an old pub than any thing he's done at the sty.
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Former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan has hit out at football’s money culture claiming foreign owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner are only in the country to make money.
The colourful Cockney with an estimated fortune of £500m and owner of 100 sex shops sold Birmingham City to Chinese businessman Carson Yeung, a deal which has since turned sour for the Midland team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the influx of foreign owners in the Premier League he said:” Randy Lerner is here to make money. The Americans at Man United and Liverpool are here to make money. The Sunderland guy has a strategy to make money.”
'There are good examples of foreign ownership, “ he said. “Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour are in it for the fun. It's a hobby.”
Sullivan owns West Ham United with David Sullivan his friend and fellow former Birmingham City director David Gold.
His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
He stated: “Aston Villa, put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans. We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham City.
“We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn't prepared to stoop to their level.”
“At West Ham we've got the best boardroom in the Premier League. We give the visiting directors the best table, right in the middle. It's the friendliest. It's lovely.”
Yes, because Lerner was previously the owners of Millwall so would suffer loads of abuse. And as owners of Blues, shouldn't he know how Villa treat owners of other teams anyway or maybe it was just them for the appalling lack of respect from Gold and Sullivan in the past meant they weren't welcome in the boardroom.
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This is a quote from the original article (here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2206369/David-Sullivan-Were-paying-Andy-Carrolls-wages-West-Ham-fans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml))
‘Now, if the king of Saudi Arabia wants to buy West Ham we would happily step aside for the good of the club. But we wouldn’t step aside for a mystery foreign buyer whose financial resources we have no knowledge of.’
Amazing. He must be deliberately out to talk a load of shit. I wonder if he was drinking with Tony Adams before he did the interview that was posted recently.
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I wanted to vent my spleen at this twat but then thought
"Just fucking go away you horrible little c***" would suffice
Things they do to get in the paper - Slaggon Brady is the same almost every week in her scrawled article in the Sun there is almost a pathalogical mention of us - they just cannot help themselves
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Maybe we should have treated them how they treated our directors. That way Sullivan could have had to bring his own security team and be advised to remove all club clothing while leaving the ground.
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That article is pure comedy gold.
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I thought the football hospitality awards said we were the best?
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I thought the football hospitality awards said we were the best?
Probably voted the best for bringing midgets and clowns in to keep the fans entertained after the match.
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I thought the football hospitality awards said we were the best?
That's something else that has probably pissed them off. They upgraded their jellied eels to "Le Eels de Jellied" recently. Still no result.
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I really don't like Sullivan he his a complete tosser.
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How does he know he was being abused because he was ex-b-lose owner?
It could just as easily have been because he made money out of reportinging rape details for titilation and the sexualisation of children.
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Anyone else do nothing but laugh through that article?
Hope they do it again, shove them in K4 this season please :)
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Hmmmm... a Philanthropist who gives generously to charities and had a local charity as sponsors on his clubs shirt, missing out on millions of pounds, who restored the historic surroundings of his club rather than try to move it to the nearest free ride money spinner Vs a smut peddling, low life gobshite who's despised by his own supporters, never mind everybody else's. I'm sure he wants to turn our Olympic legacy into a sprawling gambling revue bar complex. You know, give something back to his adoring public.
I think that helicopter is the only way he can get back from cloud cuckoo land. I've never known somebody who's made so much money been so out of touch with reality.
And if he was mistreated by the club I'm glad, because he's not worthy of respect. After insulting General Krulak and deliberately getting his rank wrong he should have been thrown out of Villa Park on his ear.
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Once that 'Nose poison gets into your system, there is no hope. Condemned to a life of resentful bitterness, punctuated by occasional outbursts to lessen the frustration until the cross-eyed fury returns to once again push the encumbant to the edge of insanity where the reality of their existance finally hits home and they are reduced to a quivering, Villa hating husk of a human being.
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This is always worth airing, from a half page advert taken out in the Birmingham Mail a few years ago:
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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I saw him on 'Back to the Floor' the other night trying to sell dildo's. And he has the cheek to say Randy's a tosser.
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Seriously, what the flying fuck does 'yours in football' mean??
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What's this? Have an unfounded pop at Aston Villa week? Shit off Sullivan.
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Seriously, what the flying fuck does 'yours in football' mean??
It's in case he gets confused with one of one of his sex toy customers.
In which case he signs off with 'Yours with a dildo up my arse'.
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moan moan moan... (http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/birmingham-city-fc/birmingham-city-fc-news/2012/09/21/david-sullivan-claims-aston-villa-treated-him-and-fellow-west-ham-directors-appallingly-97319-31880950/)
Former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan has hit out at football’s money culture claiming foreign owners like Aston Villa’s Randy Lerner are only in the country to make money.
The colourful Cockney with an estimated fortune of £500m and owner of 100 sex shops sold Birmingham City to Chinese businessman Carson Yeung, a deal which has since turned sour for the Midland team.
Speaking to the Daily Mail about the influx of foreign owners in the Premier League he said:” Randy Lerner is here to make money. The Americans at Man United and Liverpool are here to make money. The Sunderland guy has a strategy to make money.”
'There are good examples of foreign ownership, “ he said. “Roman Abramovich and Sheik Mansour are in it for the fun. It's a hobby.”
Sullivan owns West Ham United with David Sullivan his friend and fellow former Birmingham City director David Gold.
His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
He stated: “Aston Villa, put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans. We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham City.
“We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn't prepared to stoop to their level.”
“At West Ham we've got the best boardroom in the Premier League. We give the visiting directors the best table, right in the middle. It's the friendliest. It's lovely.”
Who's he think he's kidding, Abramovich & Mansour only in it for the fun, I don't think so, although money is no object to them.
Gold & Sullivan aren't in it for the money are they, of course not just fun for them !!!
It seems like they are still smarting from the General's comments, shame they are unable to move on.
Abramovich and the Sheik have made the premiership even more uncompetitive.
Remember when the porn dwarf was charging £50 for away fans at the Sty - how nice of him to treat the visiting directors at Upton Park. Can't stand the bloke.
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Abuse was probably because of all the shit they spout about Villa.
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They really are obsessed with us still!! Big respect to the General for getting right under their skin.
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I saw him on 'Back to the Floor' the other night trying to sell dildo's. And he has the cheek to say Randy's a tosser.
Didn't he sell a club full of dildo's and then buy another club..... full of dildo's ?
The biggest dildo of them all he is.
What a complete false cock he really is, fecking moronic cocksucker.
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‘Now, if the king of Saudi Arabia wants to buy West Ham we would happily step aside for the good of the club. But we wouldn’t step aside for a mystery foreign buyer whose financial resources we have no knowledge of.’
but he would sell the blues to the first man to approach him , twice infact when at first he had no cash
un fuckin believable >:(
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Gold and Sullivan really are unpleasant East End wide boys, made wealthy by spending a lifetime exploiting the murkier sides of human nature. They do not have the intelligence or imagination to understand why they are not accepted in normal society and no amount of bleating about it, or attempting to rewrite history will make an iota of difference.
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I didn't even read that bit about selling to shady foreigners with questionable finances. That's EXCATLY what they did with Blose.
What a hypocritical joker. Does he even think before he.... nah, forget it.
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Wasn't there a problem at the Sty at a reserve game during Sullivan tenure with a derogatory sign which John Gregory took particular exception to? To 'stoop' to Villa's level Sullivan would need a seriously long ladder.
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Churlish toddler.
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One has to marvel at the toadiness of the press, who just let him come out with all this bullshit without challenging him.
First question should be "So you're saying you knew all about Carson yeung's financial resources then?"
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First question should be "So you're saying you knew all about Carson yeung's financial resources then?"
Indeed that should be the first question after that bollocks quote about "not selling to myserious owners who you don't know". Although to be fair any decent reporter should be laughing so hard he'd struggle to get the question out.
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did he not make any money from the sale of Blues then ?
They really saw Carson Yeung coming when they sold the club to him for £81m!!
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I do like the fact that we can be clear, that hating Sullivan/Gold/Brady is very little to do with the last club that they had their pus oozing mitts on. They are just severe wastes of oxgen wherever they happen to be infesting.
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They are at West Am to make money. They want to use the Olympic stadium so they can sell Upton park and the land, stupid ******
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I don't see how selling to that mob would form part of any coherent 'legacy'.
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So David Sullivan made no profit whatsover over and above what he paid for Blues when he sold up. He also spent his entire time there pumping money into the club and taking nothing out whatsover. Then finished off by refusing to sell to a mysterious foreign owner who's finances could not be substanciated. Aah, so that explains why all the noses think so highly of him and never have a bad word to say about him when you talk to them then.
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In the Daily Mail version, he says
"But when it comes to the boardroom you rarely meet them. It's sad. In the old days it was lovely. There would be banter but you'd also exchange ideas, share thoughts. But the new brigade, you don't see."
In other words when he's giving it, it's banter. When he's taking it, it's abuse.
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The only banter I would exchange with Sullivan would be a concrete fence post dropped on his kneecaps. How we would laugh. Well, one of us would.
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In the Daily Mail version, he says
"But when it comes to the boardroom you rarely meet them. It's sad. In the old days it was lovely. There would be banter but you'd also exchange ideas, share thoughts. But the new brigade, you don't see."
I wonder if it's ever occurred to him that Randy & Co simply don't like him?
Can't think why......
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So Randy is missing out on "exchanging ideas" and "sharing thoughts" with Dave. I don't know how he sleeps at night and it upsets me to think of all the fantastic ideas we as a club could benefit from but will never get the chance.
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Suprised he's come out and said something like this, he usually leaves his dirty work to the other one who's name currently escapes me. Looks a bit like the retarded love-child of Jeanette Krankie and Noel Edmonds.
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Suprised he's come out and said something like this, he usually leaves his dirty work to the other one who's name currently escapes me. Looks a bit like the retarded love-child of Jeanette Krankie and Noel Edmonds.
Karen Brady?
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Suprised he's come out and said something like this, he usually leaves his dirty work to the other one who's name currently escapes me. Looks a bit like the retarded love-child of Jeanette Krankie and Noel Edmonds.
Do you mean the one who owns and pilots his own helicopter but doesn't like to mention it?
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And yet again, not one lying word that he says is criticised by the press. Meanwhile, it's still open season on Randy.
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f**k him. Its my birthday and I can say what I like . F**k THE LITTLE WEASLE
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Everbody knows that the only reason pornodwarf and ball bag face bought West Ham,is because of the Olympic stadium. What makes it worse is that the press and media take these two bell ends seriously.
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f**k him. Its my birthday and I can say what I like . F**k THE LITTLE WEASLE
You don't need to wait for your birthday to say that.
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And yet again, not one lying word that he says is criticised by the press. Meanwhile, it's still open season on Randy.
Maybe because rentaquote clowns like Sullivan and Gold are useful to them on slow news days. If it wasn't for the likes of Gold, Redknapp and Whelan SSN would have to wheel out the old girl, clown and blackboard testcard some days.
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And yet again, not one lying word that he says is criticised by the press. Meanwhile, it's still open season on Randy.
Good thing is Randy doesn't care what the gutter press say where as it's important to Gold etc because that's their level.
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Haven't heard anything from David/Ralph Gold for a long time. Never like those West Ham United owners.
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His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
Maybe Randy singled out Sullivan and co for bad treatment as giving good treatment to someone who has done time for living off immoral earnings didn't sit well.
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A little runt of a ******.
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All they need to do next is have the Sunday Mercury release a film depicting the caricature of the prophet MacGregor singing "Shit on the Villa"...
I mean, what the actual fuck is going on with this anti-Villa shit these days? They just throw it onto the pavement so, like claret and blue pigeons we're expected to gobble up their pleb-stained bread and vomit it back up on boards like this one? We shouldn't really rise to the lazy bait these microplebs keep setting.
But seriously:
David Sullivan, fuck off.
Tony Adams, fuck off.
Robert Savageton, fuck right off.
Ian Holloway (once you're finished with the Fonz), fuck right off.
Mark Lawrenson (2-1 Saints win?), fuck off.
Anybody else and their shit-pellets in our direction can get to fuck. I am so fucking angry at these gratuitous, half-arsed pot-shots at our club, I almost want us to put 6 past Saints, just so all these listed can crawl back into their irrelevant fucking holes, muttering something about Villa being the greatest club the world has ever seen.
Aaaarrrggghhhhhh! And.....breathe.
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the biggest problem i have with them is trying to work out which one i dislike the most,
its a very difficult close run thing, but i think its Gold, but then i think if its Gold that must mean Sullivan has some redeeming feature which he clearly doesnt have, and i start all over again,
its a quandary to be truthfull
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Some day I might give a shit about what that poisonous dwarf has to say....or maybe not.
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Haven't heard anything from David/Ralph Gold for a long time. Never like those West Ham United owners.
Best they keep quiet salsa as every time they speak they make idiots of themselves.
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Man City are not in it for the money? I thought they own an airline which will benefit from Manchester's footballing success etc.
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All they need to do next is have the Sunday Mercury release a film depicting the caricature of the prophet MacGregor singing "Shit on the Villa"...
I mean, what the actual fuck is going on with this anti-Villa shit these days? They just throw it onto the pavement so, like claret and blue pigeons we're expected to gobble up their pleb-stained bread and vomit it back up on boards like this one? We shouldn't really rise to the lazy bait these microplebs keep setting.
But seriously:
David Sullivan, fuck off.
Tony Adams, fuck off.
Robert Savageton, fuck right off.
Ian Holloway (once you're finished with the Fonz), fuck right off.
Mark Lawrenson (2-1 Saints win?), fuck off.
Anybody else and their shit-pellets in our direction can get to fuck. I am so fucking angry at these gratuitous, half-arsed pot-shots at our club, I almost want us to put 6 past Saints, just so all these listed can crawl back into their irrelevant fucking holes, muttering something about Villa being the greatest club the world has ever seen.
Aaaarrrggghhhhhh! And.....breathe.
I find it funny, because when the cream does rise to the top, we can flick the v's, laugh walk away and let them crawl back to their caves :)
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Personally, I take pleasure in the fact that we've wound these fuckers up so much over the years. It's to the point where they have to rant words that are so obviously bitter and ridiculous that they surely make themselves look like fools to any semi-intelligent football fan. All this and we didn't even have to stoop to their level to do so.
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Anyway, I keep looking out for the Tumnuscopter...
(http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2012/06/images/640_rapier.jpg)
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Once that 'Nose poison gets into your system, there is no hope. Condemned to a life of resentful bitterness, punctuated by occasional outbursts to lessen the frustration until the cross-eyed fury returns to once again push the encumbant to the edge of insanity where the reality of their existance finally hits home and they are reduced to a quivering, Villa hating husk of a human being.
Nail on the head.
My mate reckons all bluenoses have a massive inferiority complex regarding all things Villa, and that as complexes go it is a well grounded one.
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From the Birmingham Mail
ASTON Villa officials have dismissed an outburst by former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan who claimed he was treated “appallingly” on his last visit to Villa Park.
Sullivan, now at the helm of West Ham United alongside fellow former Blues’ director David Gold, criticised hospitality offered to visiting directors at the ground.
He said he suffered abuse over his links with the St Andrew’s club from fellow guests at the fixture in 2010 which Villa won 3-0.
In a national newspaper tirade Sullivan, who sold Blues to Carson Yeung in 2009 for a reported £81 million, said the new breed of foreign owners failed to appreciate boardroom traditions.
He said: “In the old days it was lovely. But the new brigade, you don’t see.
“The worst is Aston Villa, because they put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans.
‘‘We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham. We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn’t prepared to stoop to their level.”
However, the claims have mystified staff at Villa Park. It is understood both club owner Randy Lerner and chief executive Paul Faulkner met Mr Sullivan’s party when they last attended Villa Park more than two years ago.
A club insider said the West Ham directors appeared to enjoy the day at Villa, which has won a host of matchday hospitality accolades.
These include Best Hospitality Experience in all Leagues and National Stadia and also the Premier League Match Day Hospitality prize. The club also Chef Team of the Year, and other prizes for its treatment of the media.
Sex-shop boss Sullivan said he had mixed-feelings about the influx of owners from abroad.
He fumed: “There are good examples of foreign ownership, Man City and Chelsea are terrific. But Randy Lerner is here to make money.”
An Aston Villa spokesman said: “As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
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Now THAT'S sarcasm.
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An Aston Villa spokesman said: “As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
Outstanding! They must have been pissing themselves coming up with all the possible responses that in the end it just made sense to take the higher ground!
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An Aston Villa spokesman said: “As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
That's made me smile a lot :)
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the response is absolute top Drawer
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From the Birmingham Mail
“The worst is Aston Villa, because they put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans.
I did not realise Villa fans had leprosy or something worse
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me thinks this seasons home game against westham will be a corperate sell out , i will bring my custard pies
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“As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
Don't worry, just say it. Everyone else is saying it anyway.
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His blast at Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner continued with him claiming that Aston Villa treated him and his fellow directors badly and subjected them to abuse from home fans because they were the former owners of Blues.
You've got to love his arrogance!! It the Blues connection is it? Not because your a sanctamonious little gobshite prick???
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i bet we didnt supply big enough cushions for the seats so he could see the pitch , just bitter
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"Sex shop Boss".
Love it.
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From the Birmingham Mail
ASTON Villa officials have dismissed an outburst by former Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan who claimed he was treated “appallingly” on his last visit to Villa Park.
Sullivan, now at the helm of West Ham United alongside fellow former Blues’ director David Gold, criticised hospitality offered to visiting directors at the ground.
He said he suffered abuse over his links with the St Andrew’s club from fellow guests at the fixture in 2010 which Villa won 3-0.
In a national newspaper tirade Sullivan, who sold Blues to Carson Yeung in 2009 for a reported £81 million, said the new breed of foreign owners failed to appreciate boardroom traditions.
He said: “In the old days it was lovely. But the new brigade, you don’t see.
“The worst is Aston Villa, because they put the visiting directors in a room with the corporate home fans.
‘‘We got loads of abuse because we were the former owners of Birmingham. We were treated appallingly. I nearly did it to them in retaliation but I wasn’t prepared to stoop to their level.”
However, the claims have mystified staff at Villa Park. It is understood both club owner Randy Lerner and chief executive Paul Faulkner met Mr Sullivan’s party when they last attended Villa Park more than two years ago.
A club insider said the West Ham directors appeared to enjoy the day at Villa, which has won a host of matchday hospitality accolades.
These include Best Hospitality Experience in all Leagues and National Stadia and also the Premier League Match Day Hospitality prize. The club also Chef Team of the Year, and other prizes for its treatment of the media.
Sex-shop boss Sullivan said he had mixed-feelings about the influx of owners from abroad.
He fumed: “There are good examples of foreign ownership, Man City and Chelsea are terrific. But Randy Lerner is here to make money.”
An Aston Villa spokesman said: “As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
Just had to check that that really was on the Birmingham Mail site and not a spoof.
Brilliant.
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"Sex shop Boss".
Love it.
Fantastic
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"Sex Shop Boss"
Didn't they have an 80's hit, "Rear End Plugs"? Memory fails...
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"Sex Shop Boss"
Didn't they have an 80's hit, "Rear End Plugs"? Memory fails...
Think the b side was 'Double ender'.
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to the tune of Tom Jones
Sex boss sex boss your a sex boss !!
you sell dirty mags to kids that come along 8)
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The response is class. I would have been more direct though and it's probably just as well I'm not PR chief at Villa. For instance:
"With Mr Gold's products he can go and fuck himself. And we agree."
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The response is class. I would have been more direct though and it's probably just as well I'm not PR chief at Villa. For instance:
"With Mr Gold's products he can go and fuck himself. And we agree."
That is what they did say.
“As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
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Oh Villa, very good.
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Very entertaining thread. Well done Villa!
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Beautiful, beautiful response from Villa. In an age of overly self-important clubs thinking they have to treat themselves like political institutions, something as funny as that is a rare joy.
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To be fair, that is brilliant.
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Who is the journalist who wrote the Mail article? "Sex-shop boss" - three words that automatically raises whoever Gold is ranting about on to the moral high ground.
In addition to all those hospitality gongs, we should get one for outstanding PR. That response is sheer class.
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Perfect. Well done Villa!
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Great response by Villa. I'm still wondering how short these corporate Villa fans had to be that David "Cubans" Sullivan would have to "stoop to their level."
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to the tune of Tom Jones
Sex boss sex boss your a sex boss !!
you sell dirty mags to kids that come along 8)
No, got to make it rhyme:
Sex boss sex boss your a sex boss !!
you sell dirty mags to kids that want a toss.
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Whoooo would live in a house like this ? Overrrr to youuuuu Davidddd.
(http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/article-0-14DA81FD000005DC-127_634x422.jpg)(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02/04/article-0-021AD2270000044D-361_468x286.jpg)
The only way is Essex. Built from the sale of Porn and Shit. OK he had the house before he sold the Shit, but the proceeds help pay the upkeep.
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'Randy Lerner is here to make money' says the man who begged the council for permisson for a casino.
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Please, please notice and like me. Here I am, over here. I'll say anything you want me to say. I really am special. I have made lots of money. Lots and lots of it. And I spend it on lots and lots of expensive things. I own 17 Venus De Milos, 12 Lambourghinis and a football team. My name is David Sullivan, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
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Hmmmm... a Philanthropist who gives generously to charities and had a local charity as sponsors on his clubs shirt, missing out on millions of pounds, who restored the historic surroundings of his club rather than try to move it to the nearest free ride money spinner Vs a smut peddling, low life gobshite who's despised by his own supporters, never mind everybody else's. I'm sure he wants to turn our Olympic legacy into a sprawling gambling revue bar complex. You know, give something back to his adoring public.
I think that helicopter is the only way he can get back from cloud cuckoo land. I've never known somebody who's made so much money been so out of touch with reality.
And if he was mistreated by the club I'm glad, because he's not worthy of respect. After insulting General Krulak and deliberately getting his rank wrong he should have been thrown out of Villa Park on his ear.
:D
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Any guesses as to who the club spokesman is who gave that response?
That is top class. Almost Rinder like.
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Who the fuck would keep a waxwork butler in their house ?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-0-14DA7FF6000005DC-180_306x500.jpg)
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Interviewer 'ah Mr Sullivan, I put it to you that your purchase of a certain West Ham United had a lot to do with getting your jizz caked trotters all over the Olympic Stadium and then selling the Boleyn Ground to somebody like Tesco?'
Mr Sullivan 'No i'm West aaaaaaaaaaam frew frew and frew me'
Interviewer 'Cough .... TWAT .... Cough'
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Any guesses as to who the club spokesman is who gave that response?
That is top class. Almost Rinder like.
Would love to know. Words like these are from somebody who really understands the Villa.
Randy should give them a bonus in their pay packet for that.
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Any guesses as to who the club spokesman is who gave that response?
That is top class. Almost Rinder like.
The press director Brian Doogan would be the likely suspect.
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Well give that man a round of applause. Way to pwn rentagob as I think the kids say.
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I bet Tattoo gagged on his cornflakes after he read Villa's response.
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Who the fuck would keep a waxwork butler in their house ?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-0-14DA7FF6000005DC-180_306x500.jpg)
I always wondered why midgets where so prevalent in porn films - this I think solves that puzzle.
Horrible little shit.
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I wonder if Ken Dodd's troupe is short of one?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/28/article-1282288-09C272CC000005DC-315_634x352.jpg)
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I fucking hate that little prick.
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What a horrible little man
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I wonder if Ken Dodd's troupe is short of one?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/28/article-1282288-09C272CC000005DC-315_634x352.jpg)
I'm pretty certain that is not a regulation goalmouth.
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I wonder if Ken Dodd's troupe is short of one?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/28/article-1282288-09C272CC000005DC-315_634x352.jpg)
I'm pretty certain that is not a regulation goalmouth.
It's a Subbuteo goalmouth.
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I fucking hate that little prick.
What a horrible little man
Such a large twat for a horrible little prick.
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Damon
As our press / media expert just why do they give this turd air time? And why the London bias towards wet spam I have always wondered
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Looking at his house it is too big for one man and probably 2 staff. With his wealth there is no need for this size.
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An Aston Villa spokesman said: “As regards the specific comments made by Mr Sullivan, we have tried but can’t seem to come up with a response that reflects terribly well on us.”
This is top class response.
In other words we would like to say that you are an obnoxious arsehole Mr Sullivan !
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This man feels that he must say something to elevate himself in the league of pillocks. The whole bunch of the West Ham so called directors and owns live on the back of porn, contradiction and hypocrisy. The best one of all was Brady coming out attacking Sugar for "exploitation of Women" She has made a career riding off the back of money earned from the exploitation of women.
They all just need to grow up and take a look at themselves in the mirror, they will find that none of them are "the fairest of all".......... Little man syndrome is at work here ! he needs to get over it and move on!
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I wonder if Ken Dodd's troupe is short of one?
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/28/article-1282288-09C272CC00vi0005DC-315_634x352.jpg)
Use the very same goals for primary school games...and I've seen 11 year olds who fill more of it!
I'm pretty certain that is not a regulation goalmouth.
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Read in the paper today that West Ham have offered £3m towards the estimated £160m cost of refitting out the Olympic Stadium. So now who's only in it for the money Mr.Sullivan?
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Read in the paper today that West Ham have offered £3m towards the estimated £160m cost of refitting out the Olympic Stadium. So now who's only in it for the money Mr.Sullivan?
Surely they should be swapping (or even part exchanging) one ground for another!!!!
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He gets airtime because he answers the phone and talks. There's a lot of space to fill. See also: Whelan, Dave.
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He gets airtime because he answers the phone and talks. There's a lot of space to fill. See also: Whelan, Dave.
With the Spammers - wigan match on tonight, do football writers have column inches spare to fit in our result?
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My dad pointed out that the match preview in the mirror made no mention of us whatever.
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My dad pointed out that the match preview in the mirror made no mention of us whatever.
Lets see them do the trick in the match report tomorrow. I'm sure they will have a damn good go at it.
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At least he won't have to worry about being subjected to our disgraceful rudeness in the next round of the cup.
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My dad pointed out that the match preview in the mirror made no mention of us whatever.
Lets see them do the trick in the match report tomorrow. I'm sure they will have a damn good go at it.
"Manchester City cruised into a sequence of up to four midweeks without a game last night at the Etihad stadium."
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I bet they mention it was a weakened Manchester City side. I bet they don't mention the starting 11 cost £150,000,000. I wonder what odds i'd get on that as a double.
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I bet they mention it was a weakened Manchester City side. I bet they don't mention the starting 11 cost cost £150,000,000. I wonder what odds i'd get on that as a double.
SSN keep repeating the fact that "Premier League side Manchester City were knocked out of the cup by Aston Villa". Either I'm taking that the wrong way or we must have actually gone down last season and I must just be in denial.
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I bet they mention it was a weakened Manchester City side. I bet they don't mention the starting 11 cost cost £150,000,000. I wonder what odds i'd get on that as a double.
SSN keep repeating the fact that "Premier League side Manchester City were knocked out of the cup by Aston Villa". Either I'm taking that the wrong way or we must have actually gone down last season and I must just be in denial.
Yep, they said it was the shock of the night, even though a strong Everton side were knocked out by dirty Leeds.
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I bet they mention it was a weakened Manchester City side. I bet they don't mention the starting 11 cost cost £150,000,000. I wonder what odds i'd get on that as a double.
SSN keep repeating the fact that "Premier League side Manchester City were knocked out of the cup by Aston Villa". Either I'm taking that the wrong way or we must have actually gone down last season and I must just be in denial.
Yep, they said it was the shock of the night, even though a strong Everton side were knocked out by dirty Leeds.
Ah take no notice. I'm a City fan who had to sit through that drubbing last night and you deserved exactly what you got. Hope you keep progressing.
As for the topic of this thread. This is why I come on other clubs' forums. Curiously reminiscent of all the shit we get now that we have an owner who is considerably richer than everyone else's. Fair game to be criticised by those with less money or less willing to put their hands in their pockets. Great response from your owners though. Our club has a policy of strict silence to all the shit that gets flung in our direction which is frustrating at times. How they don't respond to the "City spoiling competition" claim as though the PL was anything other than a showcase for Man U, Arse and Chelsea before we came along I don't know. Our respective owners obviously have a great deal more restraint than I do.
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This is a quote from the original article (here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2206369/David-Sullivan-Were-paying-Andy-Carrolls-wages-West-Ham-fans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml))
‘Now, if the king of Saudi Arabia wants to buy West Ham we would happily step aside for the good of the club. But we wouldn’t step aside for a mystery foreign buyer whose financial resources we have no knowledge of.’
Bloody hell, for sheer bare faced hypocrisy that takes the biscuit!
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This is a quote from the original article (here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2206369/David-Sullivan-Were-paying-Andy-Carrolls-wages-West-Ham-fans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml))
‘Now, if the king of Saudi Arabia wants to buy West Ham we would happily step aside for the good of the club. But we wouldn’t step aside for a mystery foreign buyer whose financial resources we have no knowledge of.’
Bloody hell, for sheer bare faced hypocrisy that takes the biscuit!
What he really means is they would want to know the cheque wouldn't bounce.
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I thought they'd stopped dildodwarf spouting his bollocks to the press. What a fucking skidmark.
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MoetVillan complains about David Sullivan. "He is giving loathesome little pricks a bad name"
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If owners are in it to make money are they not by proxy running the club correctly by not spending more than the club earns!
What a spacka :-)
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Guess who said the following:
“With great effort, we have sourced a multi-millionaire, backed by other mega rich Chinese investors who we hope can achieve for the club what we have failed to achieve.”
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Guess who said the following:
“With great effort, we have sourced a multi-millionaire, backed by other mega rich Chinese investors who we hope can achieve for the club what we have failed to achieve.”
Be funny if it's Carson Yeung and his cronies again.
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This is the first time I've seen this.
He's probably right, but it's a bit pot/kettle coming from him. Gold seems to have persuaded Sullivan to keep his thoughts to himself a lot recently. Personally I wish he could get a court order to gag him personally, he doesn't do himself or the club any favours when he opens his mouth like this.
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He isn't right at all. It's the 'hobby' owners of Man City and Chelsea who have essentially ruined Premier League football, with the help of the Sky money of course. Coming over here to try to make money (not that either the Villa or Liverpool owners have been very good at that) isn't the problem at all, and indeed is exacly what the UEFA fair play rules are based around.
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Are these UEFA fair play rules ever going to happen or even work? Lets hope
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Are these UEFA fair play rules ever going to happen or even work? Lets hope
They will happen
They won't work because some of the clubs who would be worst effected (real madrid are the prime example) are some of the most powerful and they'll just sulk and restart talks of a european super league outside the control of UEFA, all UEFA can do is tell the players that playing for those clubs would make them ineligible for international but most players wouldn't care if they're playing for the best clubs in the world and being paid sillly money to do it.
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I think they'll work in the opposite way UEFA want them to, by making competition even more of a closed shop than it already is.
It's a bit like how the EU thought of the bright idea of ending Sky's exclusivity to Premier league rights. They thought competition would make it better for the consumer, but has in fact made it more expensive. Any idiot could have told them that, but of course, this is the EU, run by a breed of super-idiots. Oh shit, here I go again - I'll shut up now.
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Are these UEFA fair play rules ever going to happen or even work? Lets hope
They will happen
They won't work because some of the clubs who would be worst effected (real madrid are the prime example) are some of the most powerful and they'll just sulk and restart talks of a european super league outside the control of UEFA, all UEFA can do is tell the players that playing for those clubs would make them ineligible for international but most players wouldn't care if they're playing for the best clubs in the world and being paid sillly money to do it.
The thing is, all the Billionaire owner has to do is sponsor his own club for £1b over 5 years then the club is operating within it means as they now have £200m a year extar to play with.
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I think they'll work in the opposite way UEFA want them to, by making competition even more of a closed shop than it already is.
I've always thought this about financial fair play. If you only spend what you earn then doesn't that just mean Man U will win the league every year for evermore?
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Are these UEFA fair play rules ever going to happen or even work? Lets hope
They will happen
They won't work because some of the clubs who would be worst effected (real madrid are the prime example) are some of the most powerful and they'll just sulk and restart talks of a european super league outside the control of UEFA, all UEFA can do is tell the players that playing for those clubs would make them ineligible for international but most players wouldn't care if they're playing for the best clubs in the world and being paid sillly money to do it.
The thing is, all the Billionaire owner has to do is sponsor his own club for £1b over 5 years then the club is operating within it means as they now have £200m a year extar to play with.
There are rules in there designed to prevent non-commercial transactions like that. Whether they will work or not, who knows.
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Are these UEFA fair play rules ever going to happen or even work? Lets hope
They will happen
They won't work because some of the clubs who would be worst effected (real madrid are the prime example) are some of the most powerful and they'll just sulk and restart talks of a european super league outside the control of UEFA, all UEFA can do is tell the players that playing for those clubs would make them ineligible for international but most players wouldn't care if they're playing for the best clubs in the world and being paid sillly money to do it.
The thing is, all the Billionaire owner has to do is sponsor his own club for £1b over 5 years then the club is operating within it means as they now have £200m a year extar to play with.
There are rules in there designed to prevent non-commercial transactions like that. Whether they will work or not, who knows.
I would think it would be difficult if not illegal to enforce they could just set up any old ltd company then use them as the sponser on the shirt, ground, etc.
They could even hold a raffle to raise money for the club and the owner could buy a ticket for £1b.
there will be so many loop holes would be almost impossible to stop.
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The fair play rules were probably intended to create a closed shop. EUFA couldn't give a monkey's about distorting about distorting domestic competitions, it wants a European Super league consisting of the most lucrative brand name clubs.
Plaitini has told PSG they need to be 'creative'. Has any club other than Portsmouth been denied entry?
What kind of champions league UEFA will actually get is another matter.
Zenit St. Petersburg's, now owned by Gazprom, have just struck a large sponsorship deal with subsidiary Gazprom Neft. Gazprom itself has just signed up to become an 'official partner' of UEFA.
No conflict of interest there then.
Clubs proposing that 'fair play' rules be introduced domestically : Manchester United and Liverpool.
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Plaitini has told PSG they need to be 'creative'. Has any club other than Portsmouth been denied entry?
Rangers.
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Didn't Portsmouth get refused because they hadn't actually applied rather than due to finances?
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Portsmouth missed the deadline initially because they were already in breach of UEFA regs by virtue of being in administration.
They subsequently appealed to be allowed to apply for a license, but the FA declined to support the appeal.
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I dont know anyone who believes the so called fair play rules will make a difference.
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One thing is for sure, clubs like QPR should not be allowed to play top flight football, with wages to turnover ratio at 200%.
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One thing is for sure, clubs like QPR should not be allowed to play top flight football, with wages to turnover ratio at 200%.
Don't the new FFP rules make this illegal ?
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I think it means that they wouldn't be eligible to play in Europe. Could be wrong though.
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I'm guessing possibly not being eligible for Europe this season is not top of QPR's worries at the moment.