Guided Missile Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 (edited) Before I leave for the Saints Sporting Dinner, tonight, I felt that it may be worth trying to seek a solution to our problems, which can be solved by the receipt of sufficient funds. I went onto this website in search of these funds, namely money owed to our beautiful city, by very rich foreigners. I have sent an email to mailto:centre-info@gouv.mc which reads as follows: Dear Sirs, I am a resident of Southampton, in the United Kingdom and am a keen supporter of Southampton Football Club. This football club, which is currently playing in the English Championship, is unfortunately in administration and is threatened with the prospect of going out of business, if money is not found to rescue it. As you are no doubt aware, Southampton was sacked in 1338 by the French, including the pirate, Rainier Grimaldi, who used the plunder that was stolen from the town, including all of the town’s silver, to help found the principality of Monaco. I see no mention of this fact on your website and trust the omission will be corrected. I would be grateful if you could forward this email to the person responsible for your financial affairs, in the hope that a small portion of this booty, together with a reasonable level of accrued interest, could be returned to our city, in a spirit of recompense and fairness, so that the funds could be used to save our football club. Best Regards, etc... Assuming that the silver that was stolen by Monaco from Southampton was, let's say, worth £1,000 in 1338, this amount, at an interest rate of 5% per annuum, is now worth £165,203,664,287,896,340 which, in my opinion, will not only buy Saints and turn them into a Premiership outfit, but pay off the UK's National debt, as well... Please email Monaco ASAP to lend weight to my request. We should demand reparation... Edited 23 April, 2009 by Guided Missile Incorrect use of apostrophe and spelling
fish fingers Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 This may be the best chance we have. I'm throwing my hat in your corner.
trousers Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Please email Monaco ASAP to lend weight to my request. We should demand reparation... Done
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Magnificent. Do we know a great lawyer who also happens to be a Saints fan to seek our reparations??? Hey, what about that Salz bloke...
Smirking_Saint Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Without a doubt the most cunning and brilliant scheme since......ever
Barfy Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 If they're open to negotiations, maybe we could drop the last nine figures?
lordswoodsaints Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 seems a more realistic idea than the trust/sos/all fans together/lunatics are taking over the asylum approach.
the saint in winchester Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 well, it made me laugh until i cried .... Stranger things have happened. Oh ok, they haven't ..
The9 Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Can't we just ask them to change their team's kit and relocate ?
stanstubbs Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 the best and funniest thing i have read in weeks
Block 5 Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 GM...... you are a legend mate. My email is sent!
OldNick Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 To be hinest knowing the French came and sacked the city is enough shame let alone publicise it
OldNick Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 the best and funniest thing i have read in weeks I agree lol
Wes Tender Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Brilliant, GM. In lieu of the money, they could instead return a commensurate amount of silver. We don't have much of that in our cabinets at the club.
Legod Third Coming Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 It does say something about Southampton. So bad even then we were the only people beaten by the French... plus ça change as we should be saying
ottery st mary Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 It does say something about Southampton. So bad even then we were the only people beaten by the French... plus ça change as we should be saying It was the Millbrook and Shirley lot that let us down...The Thornhill, Bitterne and Townhill lot resisted til the last...Always bloooody divisions in Southampton....bout time we all pulled together.
jasonbenali Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 finally a realistic way to save our club or even better turn SMS into a tax haven, pay no tax if your business is registered in a corporate box...
OldNick Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 It was the Millbrook and Shirley lot that let us down...The Thornhill, Bitterne and Townhill lot resisted til the last...Always bloooody divisions in Southampton....bout time we all pulled together.Thats only as you were on the top of a hill and could run faster. Add to the fact that Melomine units and plastic flower vases were not a booty worth chasiing. I can see it now Ottery's great great greatgrandfather running to the hills with his prize piece of lino draped over his shoulder
ottery st mary Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Thats only as you were on the top of a hill and could run faster. Add to the fact that Melomine units and plastic flower vases were not a booty worth chasiing. I can see it now Ottery's great great greatgrandfather running to the hills with his prize piece of lino draped over his shoulder Don't think you realise how old I am.....I was there with my great great grandfather running to the hills near Winchester carrying the lino;)
ART Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 A brilliant scheme indeed. Next ought to be the holding hostage and to ransom of the Principalities current day investment in the fair city of Southampton, namely Grimaldi Shipping Company Agencies Ltd Currie House, Herbert Walker Avenue, SOUTHAMPTON, SO15 1HJ Tele:02380210250
Dark Munster Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Before I leave for the Saints Sporting Dinner, tonight, I felt that it may be worth trying to seek a solution to our problems, which can be solved by the receipt of sufficient funds. I went onto this website in search of these funds, namely money owed to our beautiful city, by very rich foreigners. I have sent an email to mailto:centre-info@gouv.mc which reads as follows: Dear Sirs, I am a resident of Southampton, in the United Kingdom and am a keen supporter of Southampton Football Club. This football club, which is currently playing in the English Championship, is unfortunately in administration and is threatened with the prospect of going out of business, if money is not found to rescue it. As you are no doubt aware, Southampton was sacked in 1338 by the French, including the pirate, Rainier Grimaldi, who used the plunder that was stolen from the town, including all of the town’s silver, to help found the principality of Monaco. I see no mention of this fact on your website and trust the omission will be corrected. I would be grateful if you could forward this email to the person responsible for your financial affairs, in the hope that a small portion of this booty, together with a reasonable level of accrued interest, could be returned to our city, in a spirit of recompense and fairness, so that the funds could be used to save our football club. Best Regards, etc... Assuming that the sliver that was stolen by Monaco from Southampton was, let's say, worth £1,000 in 1338, this amount, at an interest rate of 5% per annuum, is now worth £165,203,664,287,896,340 which, in my opinion, will not only buy Saints and turn them into a Premiership outfit, but pay off the UK's National debt, as well... Please email Monaco ASAP to lend weight to my request. We should demand reparation... How come no mention of the £165,203,664,287,896,340 in the letter itself?
SFC Forever Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Congratulations. Not much could give us a chuckle at this moment in time but you have succeeded sir.
eelpie Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Very clever, GM, not to mention Henry 5th who sailed from Southampton and sacked the port of Harfleur in Normandy in 1415, and Agincourt, and ..... Whatever you do, don't mention the Hundred Years War. You're clearly on to a winner here.
The Cat Posted 22 April, 2009 Posted 22 April, 2009 Brilliant. Considering we gave them the gift of football , I think the Brazilian Government should take over the club. Or at least buy a stake in it.
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 The first time I've "lol'd" on the forum in a long time.
OldNick Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 Does anybody have a number for the Luftwaffe as my great aunt's house was bombed by the Germans and lost her prize collection of plaster ducks, they are worth a small for....small amount of money now
Frank's cousin Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 'kin hilarious - needed that laugh 0- email set Sir!
ART Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 The more I think about GM's wonderful scheme the more I believe the British and French Media should be immediately informed of GM'ds correspondance and what has taken place way back in 1338. This is the stuff big news stories are made of by the likes of CNN and seeing Monaco and the Grimaldi dynasty were founded the ill gotten gains of a pirate Grimaldi won't go down too well in Royal Circles. Name and shame and better still if someone in the area can claim descendancy from the Southampton Mayor or Administrators of the time. Go for it!!
dubai_phil Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 We should all also cut and paste it and circulate it to our world-wide network of mates that we get stupid email jokes from. Viral marketing is where it's at now - somebody needs to set up a facebook group! Who can twitter?
Foxstone Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 Prince Albert new chairman... My god we don't have to have one of those do we ??? :smt119
OldNick Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 We should all also cut and paste it and circulate it to our world-wide network of mates that we get stupid email jokes from. Viral marketing is where it's at now - somebody needs to set up a facebook group! Who can twitter?but the shame of the French doing us over. i suppose they came to us for the swag and Pompey for the easy man sex
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 Before I leave for the Saints Sporting Dinner, tonight, I felt that it may be worth trying to seek a solution to our problems, which can be solved by the receipt of sufficient funds. I went onto this website in search of these funds, namely money owed to our beautiful city, by very rich foreigners. I have sent an email to mailto:centre-info@gouv.mc which reads as follows: Dear Sirs, I am a resident of Southampton, in the United Kingdom and am a keen supporter of Southampton Football Club. This football club, which is currently playing in the English Championship, is unfortunately in administration and is threatened with the prospect of going out of business, if money is not found to rescue it. As you are no doubt aware, Southampton was sacked in 1338 by the French, including the pirate, Rainier Grimaldi, who used the plunder that was stolen from the town, including all of the town’s silver, to help found the principality of Monaco. I see no mention of this fact on your website and trust the omission will be corrected. I would be grateful if you could forward this email to the person responsible for your financial affairs, in the hope that a small portion of this booty, together with a reasonable level of accrued interest, could be returned to our city, in a spirit of recompense and fairness, so that the funds could be used to save our football club. Best Regards, etc... Assuming that the silver that was stolen by Monaco from Southampton was, let's say, worth £1,000 in 1338, this amount, at an interest rate of 5% per annuum, is now worth £165,203,664,287,896,340 which, in my opinion, will not only buy Saints and turn them into a Premiership outfit, but pay off the UK's National debt, as well... Please email Monaco ASAP to lend weight to my request. We should demand reparation... I think the word genius is bandied around far too easily nowadays, but you sir, are a genius.
Daren W Posted 23 April, 2009 Posted 23 April, 2009 Hold on...am I the only one who's actually sent the email?
benjii Posted 30 April, 2009 Posted 30 April, 2009 No, you're not! Has anyone had a reply? Even a non-plussed Galic shrug?
forever a red and white Posted 30 April, 2009 Posted 30 April, 2009 so copy and paste the email adding our name to the bottom?
benjii Posted 30 April, 2009 Posted 30 April, 2009 No, you're not! Has anyone had a reply? Even a non-plussed Galic shrug? Any replies yet guys? That's what I'm trying to find out! I haven't got one. I wonder if the Monaco Echo is running a story about the strange emails being received from England?
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