[LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Richard Naef
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25457024 The twat of an owner at Cardiff makes Bates look like an angel. It takes something for me to feel sorry for Cardiff, possibly the nastiest group of fans I've come across, but the actions of their owner beggars belief. ttfn Richard T

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Nigel Sykes
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25457024 > The twat of an owner at Cardiff makes Bates look like an angel. > It takes something for me to feel sorry for Cardiff, possibly the > nastiest group of fans I've come across, but the actions of their > owner beggars belief. There's a certain a

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Richard Naef
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25457024 > The twat of an owner at Cardiff makes Bates look like an angel. > It takes something for me to feel sorry for Cardiff, possibly the > nastiest group of fans I've come across, but the actions of their > owner beggars belief. There's a certain

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Dr Michael Benjamin
I love that word. Never knew what it meant. But sounds so insightful. When I finally looked it up I was a bit disappointed. :) On 19 Dec 2013 22:51, "Nigel Sykes" wrote: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25457024 > > The twat of an owner at Cardiff makes Bates look like an angel. > > It t

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Murray
I don't feel sorry for them one bit. Watching the red birds' pending implosion will be awesome. Seriously, though, the premier league and the football league (or in the likely event that neither act - government) seriously need to do something about football ownership and the absolute decimatio

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Eric B
do you think the PL would be such a big league without foreign investments? I dont think so. gotta take the good with the bad I say. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ian Murray wrote: > I don't feel sorry for them one bit. Watching the red birds' pending > implosion will be awesome. > > Seriou

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Ian Murray
Yeah but is the PL being big (in it's current guise) really that good? It's hardly like the English national team are any great shakes or that English teams dominate Europe is it? The German model seems to me to be the best. Get rid of the Adebayors and the Agueros earning 250k GBP a week, make

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Eric B
well the PL is top 3 euro league to watch and probably in $$ as well. Easily. I cant talk about the national team and why thats not been good. Just know that ALL leagues employ a LOT of foreign players and still some countries do well, ie Netherlands, France and others. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Mark
> >> Seriously, though, the premier league and the football league (or in the > >> likely event that neither act - government) seriously need to do something > >> about football ownership and the absolute decimation and destruction of our > >> heritage by these (largely foreign) owners. As funny as

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Dr Michael Benjamin
I agree. Clubs should belong to their supporters. Grounds, naming rights whatever should be saleable commodities. But no more than that. Dr Michael Benjamin, Community Psychiatrist --- myRay: On-line Self-Help CBT http://www.myRay.com http://www.myRay.org --

Re: [LU] football's gone mad.

2013-12-19 Thread Paul Cundell
I think to echo Ian's sentiment the question shouldn't be why aren't rich UK people buying our football clubs but do we need or want rich people buying football clubs? Once a club is 'owned' by a benefactor it ceases to be come the club it had been for a 100 years and becomes the benefactors pla