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That's precisely why I asked the "What other companies does she have?" question the other day when someone referred to her as being a "businesswoman who runs many companies"...

Indeed...it's a bit like the best school teachers were the ones you feared the most because they wouldn't tolerate slackers or poor quality etc (well, that's how it was in my day - I guess teachers aren't allowed to be fearful these days)

Feel free to avail yourself of the PM facility...

10 pages.... ready, steady, go....

Or...maybe she thought staying away would avoid a media scrum and allow the team to concentrate on the game... The fact that she didn't appear on our TV screens would suggest she wasn't there.

Gastón Ramírez ‏@gasramirez10 Many thanks to everyone for all the support received in this difficult time,it is much appreciated.COYR!! pic.twitter.com/DoTZCQnAAn

Two Questions: (1) when did the media start calling the £1000 donations "shares"? (2) When is someone going to correct them?

Nabil Hassan ‏@NabilHassan79 Former owner of #pompey Football Club Vladimir Antonov should be extradited to Lithuania to face fraud charges, a court has ruled. Vladimir Antonov and his Lithuanian business partner Raimondas Baranauska are suspected of stripping £420m from a Lithuanian bank. Judge concluded they would receive a fair trial in Lithuanian and found no evidence of risk to their human rights. 7 days to appeal.

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Alex Goring Crook ‏@alex_crook The meeting between K Liebherr and #saintsfc staff lasted around half an hour and she told them she wants to continue to grow the club

Dang..... that's his last post of the day....

1. Ignore all advice on internet football forums

Damn.... I knew someone would see through my cunning lingual diversion tactic...

Is that you Katharina?

@bigadamsport: Headlines out of staff meeting with owner at #saintsfc this morning: No plans to sell, sticking to path we're on, chief exec decision soon

http://talksport.com/football/exclusive-le-tissier-backs-williams-succeed-cortese-southampton-14012076374

Hmmm, if I was a conspiracy theorist (which thankfully I'm not...), I would be inclined to say that denial is almost too categoric. As someone pointed out earlier (or on another thread) why would the richest bloke in China even bother rebuking a "fabricated" story in an English newspaper? How many times did Paul Allen deny his supposed interest in 2009 when the press where all over it? Oh well, at least the club is on the company's radar now even if it wasn't before...

Ben Smith ‏@BenSmithBBC Christian Purslow is not among those being considered by #SaintsFC.

Not sure. There doesn't seem to be (m)any articles out here about why he left. I did find an article at the time he was appointed saying he had been brought into Man City to help purge the club of some of its 'deadwood' players. I also found a post on a Man City forum after he got the referee association job saying they hadn't realised he had left City sometime before. All in all, it seems he had a very low profile role at Man City (which isn't necessarily a bad thing of course)

Anyone know why he left Man City after a relatively short time there...?

No.

Seems like a reasonable hypothesis to me. That we're linked with John Williams as new CEO would tend to reinforce the view that the Liebherrs aren't wanting to pump anymore money in as his forte at Blackburn seemed to be running the club on a tight budget in the post Jack Walker era.

Ah, ye olde denial tactic... Works every time