Jump to content

Thank God We're Not Run By...

Saint-Armstrong

By Saint-Armstrong,
in The Saints

 Share

Recommended Posts

Saint-Armstrong

Saint-Armstrong

Posted
Posted

...(insert name).

 

Who are the top 5 worst and best chairmen/owners around now in your opinion? (Can base opinion on previous clubs - e.g. Ridsdale)

 

I got the inspiration for this thread from this cringe-worthy video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2_ZXYEZf8&feature=player_embedded

 

Thank god we have Cortese and not some clown like that.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Turkish

Turkish

Posted
Posted

Super Nicky has raised the bar when it comes to chairman. The only ones i would say comes remotely close is Niall Quinn as a former player of the club and Steve Gibson a fan of the club who has put his cash in, but they are a long way behind.

 

Worst five. Ashley, Bates, Risdale, Barry Fry, Storey (Okay MD but he was running the club)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
LostBoys

LostBoys

Posted
Posted (edited)
Super Nicky has raised the bar when it comes to chairman. The only ones i would say comes remotely close is Niall Quinn as a former player of the club and Steve Gibson a fan of the club who has put his cash in, but they are a long way behind.

 

Worst five. Ashley, Bates, Risdale, Barry Fry, Storey (Okay MD but he was running the club)

 

Plus Coventry - there but for the grace of god went SFC

 

PS I decided I could do without the Ashley video thanks my taste is young ladies

Edited by LostBoys
I added a PS in case people worried about me
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Foxstone

Foxstone

Posted
Posted

History is littered with idiot chairmen - I remember Brian Clough being asked for his opinion on football hooligans to which he replied " Well there are 92 club chairmen for a start" !

 

Those clowns at Brighton ( Bellotti ?) who closed the Goldstone Ground and made "their club" homeless for years.. The idiot at Darlington, The Icelandic biscuitbakers at West Ham all stick in the memory but to the above list Ithink I would add Carson Yeung currently.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Rasiak-9-

Rasiak-9-

Posted
Posted
...(insert name).

 

Who are the top 5 worst and best chairmen/owners around now in your opinion? (Can base opinion on previous clubs - e.g. Ridsdale)

 

I got the inspiration for this thread from this cringe-worthy video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2_ZXYEZf8&feature=player_embedded

 

Thank god we have Cortese and not some clown like that.

 

Indeed, can't believe people on here still slate Cortese despite him being a serious businessman who's been headhunted by european giants like AC Milan. Compare him to this idiot and well...the pictures do the talking.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
shurlock

shurlock

Posted
Posted (edited)

Quinny is up there among decent chairmen, so is Randy Lerner and Dean Hoyle; and Bates simply because he's f**king up Leeds and an enemy of an enemy is a friend - you can also add Storey to that;

 

 

Mandaric, Madejski, MacAnthony, Simon Jordan and the cockney porn barons - I don't need to say anymore.

Edited by shurlock
Link to comment
Share on other sites
Foxstone

Foxstone

Posted
Posted
Quinny is up there among decent chairmen, so is Randy Lerner and Dean Hoyle; and Bates simply because he's f**king up Leeds and an enemy of an enemy is a friend;

 

 

Mandaric, Madejski, MacAnthony, Storey, Simon Jordan - I don't need to say anymore.

 

Disagree with you on this one - I think Madejski has served Reading very well over a number of years.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Huntingdon

Huntingdon

Posted
Posted

article132755400764f260.jpg

 

Saudi Arabian Sam Hashimi launched a bid to buy Sheffield United

He failed, and then decided to become a woman

 

article132755400764eed0.jpg

 

After a number of years of being Samantha Kane, he became a man again

As Charles Kane he's now getting married

 

article13275540ba8edc90.jpg

 

He's still a keen follower of Sheffield United :lol:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
shurlock

shurlock

Posted
Posted
Disagree with you on this one - I think Madejski has served Reading very well over a number of years.

 

Agree, objectively, he's done a good job for them, though he's always been quite tight-fisted (and that's before his own personal empire took a battering). Still there is something about his attitude, something narcisstic and slightly aloof and disgruntled that grates with me.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Posted
Posted

Pompey must be doing something right. Having financially missmanaged a club on a truly intergalactic scale, they've managed to find yet another shifty owner and started buying players for £1m again. That kind of lunacy takes genuinely tallent and I think we should applaud all those involved with the club.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Saint 76er

Saint 76er

Posted
Posted
Pompey must be doing something right. Having financially missmanaged a club on a truly intergalactic scale, they've managed to find yet another shifty owner and started buying players for £1m again. That kind of lunacy takes genuinely tallent and I think we should applaud all those involved with the club.

 

Yes, and here's a picture of one of the skates more notable Arabian owners ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably quite a good likeness, but then how will we ever know?

 

How on earth did storyteller get away with that one and manage to get his FAPPT approved as well???

 

In response, instead of smelling a rat, the FL apparently sent them one of their best men (not saying much) to carry on the dubious dealings as if nothing untoward had ever happened down there in the land that time forgot.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Crab Lungs

Crab Lungs

Posted
Posted
It's almost as if the 'anyone but Lowe' shouts weren't insightful genius.

 

Got rid of him first time and let in Wilde to destroy the club far quicker than Lowe would have managed. Then we wanted SISU and the mugs at Notts Country. Heard similar from Everton and Blackburn fans, 'why are they investing there and not here'.....i think a bit more research and sense is needed.

 

A REAL fit and proper person's test would help too.

 

 

...and yet we moan about who is on the front of the programme, lolz. Perspective, eh?

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Cabrone

Cabrone

Posted
Posted

The late John Batchelor.

 

When he bought York City he changed their name to 'York City Soccer Club' in order to appeal to 'US markets'. He also altered their crest + first team kit.

 

When York City went into administration (Batchelor made a tidy £300k profit), he tried to buy Mansfield Town and change their name to Harchester United (after the imaginary team in Sky's TV's 'Dream team').

 

Just to complete the hat trick he also tried to buy Accrington Stanley with the aim of renaming them 'Lancashire United'.

 

He was also involved in bids for Chester City and Saints (for £12.5M) in Jul 2009 (lucky escape).

 

Died in 2010 of liver problems caused by his alcoholism.

 

Quite possibly the most clueless chairman around - and clearly one of the worst.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
VectisSaint

VectisSaint

Posted
Posted
Agree, objectively, he's done a good job for them, though he's always been quite tight-fisted (and that's before his own personal empire took a battering). Still there is something about his attitude, something narcisstic and slightly aloof and disgruntled that grates with me.

Very strange view of Madejski. Tight-fisted he certainly isn't, he is a major benefactor for arts and education, and has taken Reading from a small-time club in a run-down "stadium" to a PL/Champ Club in a nice new stadium. He is still a very wealthy man, self-made of course all from his beginnings with Auto Trader.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Saint 76er

Saint 76er

Posted
Posted
Neuchatel Xamax must have the worst current chair/owner type, seeing as he has threatened to kill his players and sacked the entire management set up and backroom staff, details here:

 

http://www.wsc.co.uk/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,73/func,view/catid,27/id,554914

 

I wonder if Eddie Mitchell has considered this, err, somewhat permanent solution to his own rather troubling problems down the coast?

 

Viewing his own rather unique brand of gubernatorial skills on the weekend, I'm not sure we should entirely dismiss the idea ...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
CB Fry

CB Fry

Posted
Posted
Very strange view of Madejski. Tight-fisted he certainly isn't, he is a major benefactor for arts and education, and has taken Reading from a small-time club in a run-down "stadium" to a PL/Champ Club in a nice new stadium. He is still a very wealthy man, self-made of course all from his beginnings with Auto Trader.

 

Absolutely. The only people that don't like him are ungrateful dinlow Reading fans who have decided that because he is a multimillionaire he must spend every last penny on footballers fees and wages. I remember plenty of grumbling Reading fans moaning about when he decides to buy a sculpture, or invest in an arts project or whatever. It's his freaking money and he aint obliged to spend everything on the bottomless pit of a football club and a bunch of fairweather fans who'll end up hating him regardless. Without him, they would never have got into the Premier League in the first place, and they certainly wouldn't have their nice stadium.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Lord Duckhunter

Lord Duckhunter

Posted
Posted
A famous footballer (I can't recall who), had a chapter in his autobiography called something like 'What the Average Club Chairman Knows About Football'. This was followed by about 20 blank pages. I remember this greatly upsetting Brian Moore who was Chairman of Gillingham at the time.

 

It was len Shackleton, "The clown prince of football", seems like he was cross between Matt Le Tiss and Gazza.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/1045604.stm

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SimonC

SimonC

Posted
Posted
Absolutely. The only people that don't like him are ungrateful dinlow Reading fans who have decided that because he is a multimillionaire he must spend every last penny on footballers fees and wages. I remember plenty of grumbling Reading fans moaning about when he decides to buy a sculpture, or invest in an arts project or whatever. It's his freaking money and he aint obliged to spend everything on the bottomless pit of a football club and a bunch of fairweather fans who'll end up hating him regardless. Without him, they would never have got into the Premier League in the first place, and they certainly wouldn't have their nice stadium.

 

This. With bells on. Who the f**k do Reading think they are? Being a Bournemouth fan - did have to roll the eyes a little when i read some of the Royals (sorry biscuitmen) moaning about Madjeski. Beyond belief. They should worship that man until the day he dies!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites
doddisalegend

doddisalegend

Posted
Posted
This. With bells on. Who the f**k do Reading think they are? Being a Bournemouth fan - did have to roll the eyes a little when i read some of the Royals (sorry biscuitmen) moaning about Madjeski. Beyond belief. They should worship that man until the day he dies!!

 

TBF it's what football fans do. I mean most surrporters would kill to have been in Arsenals postion the last decade but are arse fans happy? Man U fans protested against their yank owners and they've hardly had it rough. I reckon Man city might have the only happy fans in the country (and even then I wouldn't put money on it)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
bender

bender

Posted
Posted
History is littered with idiot chairmen - I remember Brian Clough being asked for his opinion on football hooligans to which he replied " Well there are 92 club chairmen for a start" !

 

Those clowns at Brighton ( Bellotti ?) who closed the Goldstone Ground and made "their club" homeless for years.. The idiot at Darlington, The Icelandic biscuitbakers at West Ham all stick in the memory but to the above list Ithink I would add Carson Yeung currently.

 

Brighton was Bill Archer and David Belotti who tried to clear their depts by selling their ground. Great but there was no ground left to play in. Not only that but the site was then resold at a greater profit. Archer had an interest in the selling company who made the profit. A prise c*nt.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SimonC

SimonC

Posted
Posted
TBF it's what football fans do. I mean most surrporters would kill to have been in Arsenals postion the last decade but are arse fans happy? Man U fans protested against their yank owners and they've hardly had it rough. I reckon Man city might have the only happy fans in the country (and even then I wouldn't put money on it)

 

Yes, see your point. Some clubs are big to start with though and I can see Arsenal's fans getting annoyed as AW wouldn't spend any money. Reading are different - knocking round with us then suddenly hit the big time, just because of JM.

 

I wonder if all City's fans are that happy. I would like investment at Bournemouth, but not too much (if you know what I mean..)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • 2 weeks later...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...