It is good to be in the ascendancy with these things, but simply outspending teams does feel a bit distasteful. Especially after our hatred of the Skates for similar tactics.
I have had the pleasure of a work tripto Lincolnshire today which includes a lunch stop in Lincoln. It has struck me that the City of Lincoln, with an immediate district population if a quarter of a million people has just seen it's football club relegated to the conference.
For a city of it's size it's astonishing that it's football club couldn't sustain league football. It terms of catchment area/performance is this on of the biggest underachievers in the Country!?
Although, as pointed out by Matt Le God earlier in this thread, the 'Temporary' buildings that are to be in place to keep the place running while the new facilities are built, are up.
This more then implies that work is underway.
At various seemingly random times of every year, it is customary for the natives of Colden Common to perform a ceremonial dance while singing in an obscure dialect of olde english.
Proof that Bernie Ecclestone has lost the plot, even ignoring the fact this essentially validates using force to quiet the Bahraini population it also is deeply deeply unfair on all people who had scheduled to attend the first Indian Grand Prix. An utter disgrace.
I wonder, would a senior renewing over the phone will have their age checked?
I could see my Dad deciding not to renew based on the price rise he will be experiencing. £193 up to £380 in the Family enclosure. Very nearly a 100% price rise for those in that 60-65 grey area.