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ur pushing for an answer no1 can really give but looking at the facts the family is valued at £3bn, so they've spent about 1.5% of that on the club, which includes buying us and paying off our debts. hopefully the scenes at the cov game will have sparked something in the family, but maybe with all the pessimists will eventually get to them and they'll sell up and leave.

i got attackted for mentioning asian income, i didn't say it was going to be the cornerstone of our success, just that its another positive to add to the list. i'm amazed how many 'tards thought i was being serious with the figures, and how many people take this forum too seriously just as much as Huddersfield have a legacy and history? or do Blackburn deserve to stay in the PL coz they have won more league titles than Liverpool in the last 20 years. the god given right that a team should be in the PL or pushing for the title is ludicrous, it's based on performance over the year, and each year is taken on it's own merits. I'm in no way saying it's identical, but u can't ignore three major facts. they we're playing championship football 2/3 years ago, they have defied expectations & had a wonderful season, and they have a manager that we deemed to be not good enough for us. Anything can happen in football, it's sad you can't be positive.

a little, but the season ended for me with a feeling of relief more than anything in my head we've been PL since xmas, the team just needed to get there

they all run by a sub company called FL Interactive, who are **** at what they do and a rip off they only thing i care about working properly on the site is the ticketing system

we lost at least £3m on the bale deal cos we needed funds asap, all I'm saying is if we were mid table bale would have gone for £20m+, not £5m. money in the bank! newcastle were a championship side not so long ago, and no1 expected them to do this well this year. so ye, same breath because its a good example of a few good signings and a fragment of stability, and they have a manager we deemed not to be good enough. maths...? now for far east sums, 1.5billion people, £50 a shirt, i think that makes roughly £70b in the bank every 1-2 years, and that's if they just but the home kit u should try life with a little sunshine tho, sunshine. snott all about townsfolk, ur forgetting the forest in Nottingham and the county of derby

Sunderland havnt exactly been stable of late, can't imagine they are that unified a group. I can't see anything like the gyan and Bruce fiascos happening here. and Chopra apparently signed to pay of gambling debts, nice character and ambition shown there not sure exact figures but united claim they've got 27m fans there

it's all about the little things adding up to create one big thing, bolton have huge debt and a smaller stadium, and both have less potential fans and compete with other clubs for support since buying in park, united rake it in over in s korea. lee's got dual nationality!

will teach me to make long posts from my phone, my auto correct is clearly retarded

u have to start somewhere in the global market and Japanese fans follow players more than clubs. and we are on the radar in Brazil thanks to do prado. my dad's mate was in a bar in Brazil that had the Coventry game in, no red n white stripes but most in the bar were cheering us on. these little things will have an impact in a few years, becoming globally famous is clearly in the business plan Serbia us the most diverse squad I've ever seen and we have NO debt, and nc wants to keep it that way. I'm pretty confident any further investment will be wiped off as club equity in the future. we won't be spending like city, but we wont be paying interest on bank loans either

all these naysayers if u look at the main goal, which is a premiership side with 50% youth intake. if we had all the players we'd sold in the last 7 years we wud be mid table easily, a squad with bale, Walcott, aoc, surman, baird, best. and u cud really cash in with £20m+ on some of them. there's been a big change at the top in the last few years, just look at Newcastle and how far they've come in 4-5 years, or the money Liverpool have spent for a league cup. man utd, Liverpool and arsenal capitalised when the money flooded in from sky in the early 90s, but the new money coming in from sugar daddys has levelled the playing surface, slightly. and any arguments about how unprofitable city are are pointless. utd would have finished £40m in debt the year the sold ronaldo because of the interest they are paying. with a no debt, a 1st class academy, a large fanbase, a new stadium and our Asian income is taking off I dont see why in 5 years we can't be pushing for CL football. we are in a far better position before we got relegated, when we did we were the only premiership team not to have someone in the football rich list.

not quite a list, but pretty sure Jeremy Kyle was sitting behind me at st marys once, was before he was on tv and doing jezzas confessions so had to go on voice alone. plus he had to leave after an hour cuz he said he had a show to do. my uncle used to live opposite Johnny Vaughn, and both Chelsea season ticket holders, so been to a few games at the bridge with them, but only saw him before and after the game, never inside the stadium. at least one if them was saints, when we lost 4-0 on bairds full debut, got some stick after that

Marsden vs Ipswich, when he jinxed past 3 defenders, rounded the keeper and scored

football fans in good time shocker

not really, voting like this means we end up with a system rigged by the party offices and whips, so we get scores of yes men getting into power and the campaign is fought around the personality of the leader and not on the issues faced in ur local area, or well suited the candidate is to represent u in parliament. and because of this in Winchester we now have a young conservative minister who is nicely, nicely, but doesn't get anything done, whereas oaten got **** sorted

so Blair came across as good chap? how did that work out? and unless u lived in sedgefeild between 97-05 u didn't vote for him same rules apply with ed if u don't live in donny

wasn't this done in an online poll? half the ppl voting won't even remember le tiss, and the other half probably live in asia and support united

a spelling mistake, but auto correct on my phone gives it a capital well done though for spotting a typo instead of commenting on the thread topic, u win 3 internets

putting doesn't laugh, not even at George Dubyah. he can only manage sinister smile when he really tries.

even if we just take the economics, he's not very right wing, and the alternative isn't even left wing economics, it's not like ken is going to start buying up all the 17 companies that have a part of the trains in london. Borris is not going beyond Reaganomics, and we've had a pretty right wing economic policy nationally since the 80s macro economics is all a con anyway, not even people who study it can really give u a good and logical explanation on how and why it works, things like quantative easing are just fancy things for the government, banks and economics experts hide behind. until successive governments stop bailing out the banks they are all the same, and stuck in the economic policy in the centre, allowing free markets and capitalism, but only saving the banks when they crash to keep the public from revolting.

I was living in London during the last mayoral elections and he got my vote, the only time I have ever voted conservative. but it's not like, borris, and the conservatives, are that right wing. they are hardly le pen and the nf. our three main parties are all in the centre on most issues, and if u read out random policies from their manifestos I'd struggle to get guess them, and I'd doubt many would be only one party. borris is a character though, and understands the game. u only ever see him make a statement on good things, when something goes tits up he sends out a spokesperson. he has a good sense of humour too and not afraid to be himself in front of the press and act like a normaller. it's boring trying to see politicians pretend they perfect and incapable of wrong doing, then because they are so adamant they we're right all along, they have to be more accountable when the pig spore hits the wind spinner. my two favorite quotes of his from the last year or so we're his chosen recipe for a charity book, "cheese on toast - cover toast with slabs if cheese, grill until alp nice!" and his response to Barclays when they complained they had spent £50m on sponsoring the bikes in London, yet they are known borris bikes, he replied, "if you give me £50m, I'll change my name to Barclays" plus Ken is do slimey u could play catch the greased pig with him

this is only really a problem at local elections, mist wards only have 3 options, which to most ppl atm is only 2 options. at a general election most ppl will also have the choice of ukip, green, bnp, mrlp and an independent or 2. this creates less apathy as u can show ur distaste with con/lab/lib by voting for someone who isn't one if them. there are many things wrong with government these days but the 2 biggest issues imo are that the electorate don't understand the system, and most politicians are clones. the electoral system should part of a citizenship/general studies gcse, and ppe at Oxbridge shouldn't be the only qualification into office.

managed to find the full fourfourtwo list online, and it's pretty rubbish 1. West Ham 2. Leicester 3. Middlesbrough 4. Reading 5. Birmingham 6. Nottingham Forest 7. Leeds 8. Ipswich 9. Burnley 10. Southampton 11. Cardiff 12. Brighton 13. Blackpool 14. Hull City 15. Portsmouth 16. Millwall 17. Bristol City 18. Derby 19. Coventry 20. Crystal Palace 21. Doncaster 22. Peterborough 23. Watford 24. Barnsley it's gotta be one of the hardest leagues to predict, and much of it is based on Sumner hype. I've also been saying all year how close the bottom half of the premier league and the top half of league one is, on the day most championship teams could push a mid table premier league team to extra time and penalties.

I think fourfourtwo had us down around 12th-13th was looking at it the other day, they had Leicester finishing second I think in every game I've played on fm12, we've only ever finished bottom half and the first year, and languish as a consistently mid table side. and lallana always goes to villa for around £6m. we are **** in fm12.

in a serious note, I think this sums up the argument quite well it shows that u have an end game, but some of us dont go out in Southampton after games. I tend not to care about being refused entry to places I don't want to go to. it's not a case of insecurity, or psycho analysis, but of personnel tastes. whatever we do when we're not at SMS doesnt matter as we are all there for the same reason. something I've always admired about football is how it brings so many different people together, and was actually thinking about it on Sat as i meandered through the crowd after the final whistle. u could put them all into little groups but ultimately we are all in one group. regardless of creed, ethnicity, or fashion taste, we are Southampton, we are premier league!

there wasn't an independent standing in my ward so i couldn't be bothered the coalition government have only created apathy at the polls, as three party politics have been whittled down to two party politics