trousers

Mungo finance under investigation by football league apparently, for not yet revealing who their middle east backers are by name

Sol Campbell reported as quitting

Notts county unravelling already? Looks like mr liebherr's conservative approach is the way to go

now I know what's putting our plays off putting in a good performance week in week out...it's the thought of having to mix with the fans afterwards that's doing it I reckon! :-)

Sounds like a Tongue in cheek extract from his own book...

Hey! Get your own conspiracy theories! ;-)

but wasn't cortese implying/indicating last night that they offered the £500k before pinnacle (on the tuesday?) but that fry went AWOL until the Friday upon which he took pinnacle's money (or should that be leon's money?) just doesn't seem like a level playing field to me.

Very true....although, in which case, I'm surpised we didn't have billionaires queuing down the street to snap us up if we were such an attractive proposition....?

Although, I guess, once the connection/introduction was made by Cortese, the fact that the docks play a large part in the City's infrastructure may have ultimately swayed or influenced Liebherr's decision?

Out of interest (and excuse my poor grasp of recent history) was there any reason as to why the Northam was chosen as the home end when the stadium originally opened or did it just naturally evolve that way?

lol

Fair point, yep....Police wouldn't want away fans around other end of stadium, furthest away from their transport home...unless away coaches could relocate? With that in mind, how about this as a slightly more controversal suggestion.....switch the Chapel and Northam ends around.....so that the Chapel becomes the 'home end'? Takes cover....

Good call IMO....whilst at the same time shifting the family enclosure around to one half of the Itchen (nearest Chapel).

Ah, ok....yep, just read up on it on FF's thread.....keep up Trousers!

So, no one asked the obvious question? i.e. "Nicola, why did Markus chose to buy SFC when there were/are plenty of other opportunities out there? How did Markus come to hear that a lower league English club was for sale in the circles he keeps?" Or perhaps I'm the only one who's curious as to how a (relatively) obscure Swiss businessman with no previous interest in football becomes interested in buying a (relatively) obscure English football club?

But MLT is on record as saying that he would have alligned himself to whichever bid the administrator preferred, hasn't he? Chicken and egg?

My understanding at the time was that it simply came down to a last minute race as to who could give Mark Fry a pledge on the £500 'exclusivity deposit'....but Cortese's words this evening imply (don't they?) that there was some sort of favouritism at play and as such it wasn't an even race....? Am I reading between the lines incorrectly here or was Fry indeed, for some reason, ignoring Liebherr's original bid? Yes, I know this is 'old ground' and that there are those who want to let sleeping dogs lie, but, as FF and others have rightly pointed out before, we will still be seeing the fall out of the takeover 'debacle' in months, perhaps years, to come....yes, it happened in the past but the knock on effect is very much in the 'here and now'.... What really happened?

Sod the price of the beer. It's the quality of the beer they need to get right. FFS

If I finish first can I do the kumquats?

So, in essence, what you're saying is that Matt should have given Tony's plums a good old squeeze before choosing to allign with him?

I've no idea...but hidden in your answer is the reason I was pondering... ;-)

Unless he's been talked into a more organic path into management....

BTW...he's "only" 37....HCDAJFU in the third tier of English football? Player-Coach anyone?

I won't believe it until I see Mister Neil's photograph....

Fair point. Apologies for my misinterpretation.