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Hope so too, but they are on a good run of form.

Five minutes or so for him to go missing, or make a mistake then.Should be enough.

Glad that its "business as usual" and that this weeks events have not affected them in any way.

Haven't Sunderland just parted company with a chief executive ? Another amusing possibility is Newcastle. Mike Ashley is probably someone who would believe the tabloid hype about NC's miraculous powers. Sure NC would jump at the opportunity, to sack Pardew a second time.

NA is too dignified to wash "dirty laundry" in public.

Probably right here. If you look at the final sentence in yesterday's Independent article: First and foremost, I hope they get their message drilled into MP and the players.

Rupert, Christian .... we certainly attract a certain type of name don't we ?

Good and interesting read FF. Supports a view and fear I've had for some time over the way things have been run. I hope KL is not looking to sell on, as the Liebherrs appear decent and respectable, rare features in club owners/executives.

No, bring Dennis T-Shirt back instead of that bald mincer who does the pre-match , and half time crap.

yes, as heard from a single source.

Spurs or West Ham ? Both with sneaky devious, unsavoury owners who will admire NC's 'handling' of the media.

Doubt that the current problem would have escalated to this. NC had - we read - a close bond, and hopefully respect, for Markus Liebherr so this and Markus's presence would have put a brake on NC to some degree as he might have been working in tandem with someone, or possibly accountable.

So you don't begrudge NC the opportunity to spend ML's millions in fulfilling a dream and vision, but you do - for a reason best known to yourself - begrudge his heir the same opportunity ?

Only port or brandy for our local 'big wigs' though surely ? With a mudbath of a pitch down the middle, goalmouth to goalmouth. No 'pseudo-pretend its a working mans game' with those dreadful 'fukka pukka pies' , its back to Wagon Wheels & Bovril, or' f^ck off go without' as the only option for us in the plebs stands. And the team where red and white stripes. Not because Saints once wore them, but because its wot Barnstonthwaite Utd wore. That's the CEO we want.

Reading this on a Liverpool blog about Purslow: http://www.empireofthekop.com/anfield/tag/christian-purslow/ of course he has now had some football experience, but....

Probably the only name they could come up with. oh, b0ll0cks, hope we're not going back to the days of "no one's ruled in, no one's ruled out..."

The focus has been on KL, but I thought I read Markus also had a son, and some supporters had met the two of them when Saints played pre-season in Switzerland a few years ago.

If there is to be a bid, then hope it happens swiftly, unlike 2007. Don't want a summer of dilly Dalian.

I think he was ejected recently, Police discovered he had smuggled a cuckoo-clock into the ground and was about to throw it at a linesman

It has been mentioned somewhere. & that his first signing on coming back might be Dalian Atkinson as player-manager.

Good read.

The Anthony Pulis of his generation ?

Yes, this comparison occurred to me the other night: posted on the Cortese to go thread. At least, becoming an old fart has advantages when you learn from history.

Whatever we hear though is likely to be a media friendly, sanitised version though isn't it ?

Exactly. Another 'moment' in the press conference, if you really want to over analyse it, was a reference towards the end about "staying focussed until the end of the season, that's what is important..". Could that be interpreted as meaning only until the end of the season ?