| What a shame 23:20 - May 14 with 2334 views | SitfcB |
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| What a shame on 23:22 - May 14 with 2287 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
They are also walking away because they don't have any money to buy the club with. |  |
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| What a shame on 23:27 - May 14 with 2239 views | Illinoisblue |
Boy are they reaping what they’ve sown. Wonder how long Rooney will stick around. |  |
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| What a shame on 23:34 - May 14 with 2208 views | Darth_Koont |
Things like this give me the opportunity for a far more general rant.
But football would be better for the vast majority of people, including many of those working in the industry, if it wasn’t so ridiculously hyped up on steroids.
It’s become less interesting the more money has been poured into it.
That’s objectively speaking: who cares about the FA Cup Final or Champions League Final really? Not in the way almost everybody used to care 20+ years ago.
It’s become like Formula One with shin pads and swearing. Dull as f@ck and sooo serious about itself. |  |
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| What a shame on 23:52 - May 14 with 2101 views | Illinoisblue |
| What a shame on 23:34 - May 14 by Darth_Koont |
Things like this give me the opportunity for a far more general rant.
But football would be better for the vast majority of people, including many of those working in the industry, if it wasn’t so ridiculously hyped up on steroids.
It’s become less interesting the more money has been poured into it.
That’s objectively speaking: who cares about the FA Cup Final or Champions League Final really? Not in the way almost everybody used to care 20+ years ago.
It’s become like Formula One with shin pads and swearing. Dull as f@ck and sooo serious about itself. |
Our new owners seem genuine and enthusiastic and ambitious. Which is great and all but it doesn’t sit right that we’re a pension fund’s (small) plaything. | |
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| What a shame on 00:46 - May 15 with 1957 views | dominiciawful |
| What a shame on 23:34 - May 14 by Darth_Koont |
Things like this give me the opportunity for a far more general rant.
But football would be better for the vast majority of people, including many of those working in the industry, if it wasn’t so ridiculously hyped up on steroids.
It’s become less interesting the more money has been poured into it.
That’s objectively speaking: who cares about the FA Cup Final or Champions League Final really? Not in the way almost everybody used to care 20+ years ago.
It’s become like Formula One with shin pads and swearing. Dull as f@ck and sooo serious about itself. |
Those last two lines are excellent and accurate. |  |
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| What a shame on 01:36 - May 15 with 1897 views | XYZ |
| What a shame on 23:52 - May 14 by Illinoisblue |
Our new owners seem genuine and enthusiastic and ambitious. Which is great and all but it doesn’t sit right that we’re a pension fund’s (small) plaything. |
Pension funds don't do "playthings", individuals do.
Pension funds have investment committees and processes and standards.
Yes, they need to show a profit, but they don't need cash back in the short or medium term. They don't have egos to rub.
As Phil identified, this could be a trend-setter. Football started with working men's clubs - this could be the start of ex-working men (& women) investing in community assets. |  | | |
| What a shame on 05:34 - May 15 with 1776 views | BryanPlug |
| What a shame on 00:46 - May 15 by dominiciawful |
Those last two lines are excellent and accurate. |
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| What a shame on 05:37 - May 15 with 1788 views | BryanPlug |
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| What a shame on 06:38 - May 15 with 1689 views | Churchman |
| What a shame on 23:34 - May 14 by Darth_Koont |
Things like this give me the opportunity for a far more general rant.
But football would be better for the vast majority of people, including many of those working in the industry, if it wasn’t so ridiculously hyped up on steroids.
It’s become less interesting the more money has been poured into it.
That’s objectively speaking: who cares about the FA Cup Final or Champions League Final really? Not in the way almost everybody used to care 20+ years ago.
It’s become like Formula One with shin pads and swearing. Dull as f@ck and sooo serious about itself. |
This is so true. My brother in law is a massive Leicester supporter and the misses has divided loyalties with ITFC as they come from that part of the world. My best mate has been a Chelsea supporter all his life. So I should be interested. The Cup Final was the best sporting day of the year back in the day. All day Cup Final tv? Magic! Not any more. I am really not interested. It’ll be on, but it’ll be wallpaper. The CL Final, the same if I watch that at all.
The hype thing does my head in. The sport really doesn’t need it. It’s the universal game playable by all. Yet you get in particular Sky’s at times grotesque presentation. That bag of gas Jim White and his ugly friend with the little mouth bringing us ‘transfer deadline’ day in their yellow ties, piggy eyes wide with excitement. Tools. Has beens smugly sitting their in the studio at games ranting away, trying to make excuses for the diving, cheating, tedium and sheer greed of the top clubs that’s totally distorted the game now and shows no time of stopping. It’s taken on an ugly life of its own now.
One of the saddest things I saw on the Cup Final was a Leicester supporter on some dreadful preview being asked if he’d prefer a Champions League spot or to win the FA Cup. The bloke ummed and arrrd before just about coming down on the side of ‘winning some silverware’. Sad. |  | | |
| What a shame on 07:40 - May 15 with 1561 views | BlueBadger |
| What a shame on 23:27 - May 14 by Illinoisblue |
Boy are they reaping what they’ve sown. Wonder how long Rooney will stick around. |
Famous Wayne will probably end up as assistant manager to Paul Lambert if he manages to con another guillible chairmen into giving him a job. |  |
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| What a shame on 07:42 - May 15 with 1562 views | Bluefish |
| What a shame on 05:37 - May 15 by BryanPlug |
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Nope they have less football debt. If they went into admin other debts would be cleared but football and hmrc would still need paying |  |
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| What a shame on 08:25 - May 15 with 1416 views | EastTownBlue |
| What a shame on 05:37 - May 15 by BryanPlug |
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There was the "sale" of their stadium for £80m [Post edited 15 May 2021 10:58]
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| What a shame on 08:27 - May 15 with 1399 views | Guthrum |
| What a shame on 05:37 - May 15 by BryanPlug |
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If that was just the debt from the Morris era, then it was accumulated in less than half the time ours under Evans was. |  |
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| What a shame on 08:40 - May 15 with 1307 views | gtsb1966 |
According to Google Mel Morris has a fortune of £515m . Why can't he just write off/pay up the debts and sell for a quid. Surely any fan would with his worth. Is that too simplistic? |  | | |
| What a shame on 09:04 - May 15 with 1190 views | IpswichKnight |
| What a shame on 08:27 - May 15 by Guthrum |
If that was just the debt from the Morris era, then it was accumulated in less than half the time ours under Evans was. |
Ours as we know was only debt to one person and not debt owed to HRMC or tied up as a commercial mortgage on the ground all of those creditors will want and demand the full amount back not 20p in the pound.
They still owe something like £20m to ex managers who they didn’t put break clauses into contract contracts for! | | | |
| What a shame on 09:30 - May 15 with 1084 views | Guthrum |
| What a shame on 09:04 - May 15 by IpswichKnight |
Ours as we know was only debt to one person and not debt owed to HRMC or tied up as a commercial mortgage on the ground all of those creditors will want and demand the full amount back not 20p in the pound.
They still owe something like £20m to ex managers who they didn’t put break clauses into contract contracts for! |
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| What a shame on 09:31 - May 15 with 1080 views | Guthrum |
| What a shame on 08:40 - May 15 by gtsb1966 |
According to Google Mel Morris has a fortune of £515m . Why can't he just write off/pay up the debts and sell for a quid. Surely any fan would with his worth. Is that too simplistic? |
And, unlike Marcus Evans, his wealth is not tied up in one particular business. He sold that to liquidate his assets. | |
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| What a shame on 09:33 - May 15 with 1069 views | tractorboy1978 |
| What a shame on 08:40 - May 15 by gtsb1966 |
According to Google Mel Morris has a fortune of £515m . Why can't he just write off/pay up the debts and sell for a quid. Surely any fan would with his worth. Is that too simplistic? |
You cannot just write off debts to HMRC, former players/managers and third parties. They may have something to say about that! | | | |
| What a shame on 09:49 - May 15 with 966 views | Steve_M |
| What a shame on 23:34 - May 14 by Darth_Koont |
Things like this give me the opportunity for a far more general rant.
But football would be better for the vast majority of people, including many of those working in the industry, if it wasn’t so ridiculously hyped up on steroids.
It’s become less interesting the more money has been poured into it.
That’s objectively speaking: who cares about the FA Cup Final or Champions League Final really? Not in the way almost everybody used to care 20+ years ago.
It’s become like Formula One with shin pads and swearing. Dull as f@ck and sooo serious about itself. |
Would agree with most of that. It’s all got very tedious in general and the lack of fans has highlighted just how hollow the whole edifice now is.
On the FA Cup final this year though, a self-entitled club versus one of the best performing of the rest all least gives me a clear side to support. I wrote struggle to tell you much about the finals of recent years though. |  |
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| What a shame on 09:52 - May 15 with 949 views | Pendejo |
| What a shame on 09:33 - May 15 by tractorboy1978 |
You cannot just write off debts to HMRC, former players/managers and third parties. They may have something to say about that! |
The comment said write off / PAY UP
So wasn't suggesting Derby stiff HMRC and football creditors. |  |
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| What a shame on 10:20 - May 15 with 869 views | WeWereZombies |
| What a shame on 09:49 - May 15 by Steve_M |
Would agree with most of that. It’s all got very tedious in general and the lack of fans has highlighted just how hollow the whole edifice now is.
On the FA Cup final this year though, a self-entitled club versus one of the best performing of the rest all least gives me a clear side to support. I wrote struggle to tell you much about the finals of recent years though. |
Last year's was very decent and the Arsenal's winning goal was top notch, lives in the memory a bit. Despite there being no crowd it was a welcome relief in those early days of lock downs to have live football on terrestrial telly. But it is back to there seeming to be too much on now and even looking forward to a break from it over the summer. |  |
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