If he was on his knees hacking away at the coalface 50 hours a week for a pittance, he would have good cause to be miserable.
In fact he gets thousands a week for kicking a bag of air around for maybe 20 hours, and he obviosly wants even more thousands a week kicking that thing around for someone else.
There's no excuse. Makes him a cv nt in my book.
For cup games they used to isuue vouchers which gave you the right to queue for tickets. The problem was they didn't used to advertise which League matches would be the voucher-issuing ones.
No tickets (except for season tickets) - you just turned up and paid cash at the turnstile.
From memory in the late 60's it cost 4/6 to stand on the Milton Road terrace (thats 22 and a half pence). And that was First Division.
Half price for nippers.
Season tickets - no idea. I was an impoverished student.
I'm sure the red balls started as away, then switched to home halfway through. They haven't confirmed Southern section draw yet. I could of course be wrong, but I'm sure Bristol City were drawn at home, if it's switched I'm right.
He's not saying that's what he's worth - he's just signalling to other clubs this is how much over the top you'll have to pay to get him.
Quite right too.
Trouble is, with the increases in corporation and income taxes he wants to introduce, all the high earners and successful companies will f*** off abroad, leaving no money for his fantasy reforms. D'oh!