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bkkandrew

Actually, that is incorrect. There are a variety of 'unusual' investors in Premiership football, from rich fans, who want to shower their money on a club (Mike Ashley - Newcastle United), to Russian Billionairs, wishing to achieve a high profile to prevent easy assassination (Roman Abramovich - Chelsea).

Texpat

and it's not business?

Um, it is.

Even with rabid fans who wish success -- it's a business proposition.
Don't pretend it doesn't happen elsewhere. You've no monopoly on stupid investors/fans.

Spin

As any Man city fan will tell you, Sven was not what could be considered "non performing" They were in the top 4 for a long time. Most man city fans could hardly believe it.

bkkandrew

^^Too tired to argue the point, but you will find plenty of examples of non-business 'investment' in football. Google Mike Ashley for a start and you will see what I am talking about..

Then you could try Quinn at Sunderland, my club's own 'saviour' Daniel Levy, et al. It is simply beyond the ken of busnessmen and those not connected to football....

NickA

I'm sure the fans will forgive him if he gets Jose, but I doubt he will.

Anyway, Taksin won't be too unhappy, because he knows that if all else fails he can come back to Thailand and get Tex to suck his cock

Agent_Smith

So Thaksin is sacking the coach because attendance is down? If not then it's a poor "business" decision as well antagnostic to the players, er, employees.

NickA

I wouldn't bother arguing with Tex as he's already admitted he's trolling. He prefers a real man's game...

Texpat

Damn, did I say that?

Musta been my wife jabbering on under my log on after I passed out -- as I know nothing about soccer.

Agent_Smith

Prepare for the redstorm. That word's an abomination to all the "civilized" folk here.

unkleblacky

I think his taksin twat head square faces demise will be more popular that a tata young mercedes lesbo scene on youtube.

chinthee

Shitman lives there and is a Man City supporter, and former Thaksin era employee at Man City.

Any comments?

Texpat

I imagine his Thai style of hi-so persuasion doesn't win him many fans there.

Northern Scum

Fuck Sven. Before he took over he ridiculed us saying the club wasn't big enough for him, then realizing that not too many offers were on the table he changed his mind. We should withhold his pay-off simply for playing Elano at the back.

If anyone feels sorry for him then go start a collection.

As for Toxin - I'm enjoying the pantomime, sorry for the club, but if he wins a trophy next season he will be a local hero

Sadly, when he arrived he threw a big party with free food & all that malarky & everyone thought he was great.

I did a thread on it - lots of pictures & worth a butchers.

http://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lou...s-a-party.html



But when the fans decide he's got to go - there will be no stopping them until he does.

English Noodles

Just days after Thaksin took over at city i got the following e-mail from a good friend who is city through and through, he lives in Thailand and so has a much better understanding of the square headed one than the average-joe manc.

It may be of an interest to some of you so here it is:


Before I could even see, my vision was tainted sky blue. Hours after I was born my Dad's mate registered me as a junior blue (Man city junior supporters club). One of my first images is of a poster on my wall as a young boy. I remember a black guy with an afro who stood out on the team photo (I think his name was Dave Bennett?). There are plenty of picture as me as a small boy, beaming in my sky blue kit, sponsored by Phillips, or was it saab?

Throughout all of those 26 years It's never been much fun to be a city fan. We're the team that gets relegated, that always manages to mess everything up, that employed such footbal luminaries as Alan Ball, Frank Clarke, Phil Neal, Alfons Gronendike, Laurent Charvet and Gerry Creaney. At school it was cool to support United, but for me that made it much cooler to support City. I went even when we were in the third division and getting beat by Lincoln and Barnet. In spite of all the shit I never wavered from my dedication to the cause. We were the family club, the real manchester club. We didn't care if we lost as long as we played with heart. While we were falling through the divisions our local rivals were cheating and moaning their way to countless trophies. Not once did I ever wish I was a United fan. They won trophies by employing players like Roy Keane, Paul Ince and Mark Hughes and having a whingeing manager with a stopwatch and a frown.

Today that has all changed.

I should be delighted. Twenty six years might be finally coming to an end. Twenty six years of no trophies, hardly any good players and public ridicule may be over as our night in shining armour has rolled into town. Thaksin Shinawat, former Prime Minister of Thailand has bought out the controlling stake in the club and promised to spend big on renovating the squad, most fans are delighted. After all of these years we may be able to compete with the big boys and win something, that should make me feel great. It doesn't. Quite the opposite in fact.

I lived under Thaksin's rule and saw first hand the kind of person he is and how he has made his money. I'm not sure what my favourite 'Thaksin moment' is, perhaps the death squads roaming the streets during his infamous 'war on drugs'? Perhaps it was when he gave government aid to the burmese military junta in order for them to buy satellitte acess from his personal company? The destruction of democracy? The mess of an airport that stands as monument to his corruption? Mass media manipluation? Or was it him using the country as his own personal piggy bank in oder to further the wealth of him and his family? There are so many examples of that final one it's untrue. Selling government land to his wife at a massively reduced price, subsidising his private television station with governmet money, buying a 50% stake in AirAsia in order to grant them a license to fly within the country. There are plenty more......

I can't support him. I can't watch Manchester City knowing that everything that I am seeing is funded by him. I won't pay for another piece of merchandise or a ticket until he's gone. I know it's a big statement but I just can't support what he stands for. If that means cutting off a part of my life which has been me since birth, then so be it. I can't imagine watching a game and seeing that smug square faced wanker in the stands while he is wanted for arrest over here. If a man has no morals how can he truly be a man?

So that's it. I'm an official football widower. I can never remarry, there will be no other, but my one true love has turned into a cheap whore on the arm of the local crook and I can't overlook it. It's like the man who raped your wife (she was a cheap hussy but that's not the point) offering to pay for a night on the town for you to make up for it. Or the man who robbed your life savings giving you a 100 quid back to ease the pain.

I hope for all my friends and family that the team go on to do great things, win the trophies that I have dreamed about us winning, sign the players I have dreamt about us signing and thoroughly stuff United every time they play them. Maybe this is just an initial reaction and it will become easier with time. I doubt it.

David

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It's been fun.

Northern Scum

David sounds like a closet United fan.

English Noodles

Spin

That exact same "e-mail" appeared on a guardian blog here and was reproduced Citeh Citeh on the Manchester City bid

NickA

Oh my god... English Noodles ain't spouting bollox again... shock/horror

English Noodles

No.

NickA

^ah, yes, that looks like an email from a close friend... I've got loads of Nigerian friends and a lot of freinds who want to make my penis bigger.