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[eamonn]

One person per flight, no guarantee it will land (or even take-off).

[eamonn]

Interesting response from football finance and law expert Stefan Borsen (sp?) to the bit of Tanswell’s article he quoted:

Tanswell: “Missing out on Champions League qualification is unlikely to be a major stumbling block given that, in theory at least, Chelsea should be in a better position to challenge for silverware next season and more readily able to compete in Europe’s blue-chip competition longer term than Villa.”

Borsen: “This is becoming an interesting question - is it true?

Chelsea have a similar sized stadium but can broadly generate double Villa from matchday (c£40-50m revenue difference). Plus, historically, generated double Villa commercially (c£100m revenue difference).

But Villa are addressing Matchday in a way Chelsea can't by building and how secure is Chelsea's commercial revenue vs Villa?

The gap is nowhere near as big as inferred here long term.”

Tanswell talking shit about us behind our back? While he's happy to stroke egos on all manner of Villa pods. Grrrr...

Which reminds me, how the Steve Howey the Lads do Newcastle United have their own designated BBC reporter while we still have to make do with Mashiter covering us as well as the runts from Wulfs, West Brom and the like? We merit our own mash shitter!

[Meanwood Villa]

Since Unai came in, they've only finished above us once and we've qualified for the CL twice as many times. I get why people think of Chelsea in this way but they're an abysmally run football club and on a downward trajectory.

[Rigadon]

Without financial doping they’d still be like QPR.