Scummer

I thought items 2 and 3 were the same thing?

If they only get a number of pence in the pound, it'll be because the club has ceased to exist. It's a football league requirement that all football creditors are paid in full.

Partially true, but I don't think the deal was quite as good as that for City. You are right about the original building costs, but apparently City paid £35M to convert the stadium into a football ground. So that's £35M for an asset they don't even own. They then have a 250 year lease from the council, so I'd assume they are paying some rent as well (maybe not as they paid for the redevelopment work).

Manchester City don't own their ground (the council do), doesn't seem to have prevented people buying them.

All apart from the last one.

You can't blame the fans for not chucking money into buckets if they don't know where that money is going to go. I apply the same logic when that rough looking bird comes round with a collection tub in the Chapel Arms.

Surely if Southampton FC went bust, there would be no reason for any new club to not be called Southampton FC?

He is/was based in the same building as the administrators in Southend, so it's fair to assume that there is some kind of link.

Agreed. While sitting there I'd have estimated the crowd at around 26,000. I don't know where the 9,000 empty seats were.

Doesn't Toynton work for the administrators? Or at least out of the same building? How is he independent?

Has anyone taken them up on the 'free ticket if you buy a shirt' offer? Is it easy enough to do?

I won't take my 2 year old on Monday then.

Does that include the French ones? Or did they only have the one that crashed?

Ok, Sundance Beast/Nineteen Canteen/Jonathan Marland/Baron Marland of Odstock is their President apparently.

Would I be right in thinking that Salisbury are owned by Jonathan Marland?

Sim City.

There was a chaplain on 5Live this morning, he said he was happy to deal with people of all faiths. Said he would be happy to put patients in contact with a humanist. Must admit I don't understand the intricacies of all of this. As far as I can tell, a chaplain can be of any religion.

Simple question. How young was your child when you first took them to watch Saints? And in retrospect was it too young?

Where did you get that info from? I'd have thought plenty of the bidders will have less cash than that.

Exactly. There was bugger all any of us could have done about it, so it didn't matter if we were in favour or not.

Why didn't you block Wilde's takeover then? You could have saved us all the hassle of the last few years.

A transfer embargo when we aren't even in a transfer window is the least of our worries.

Can't see them making a decision today.

Be fair adrian. He's an hour ahead of us.

Maybe, just maybe, he'd have been better off doing the media rounds before we went into administration? That way there's a chance he could have attracted a buyer before things went totally tits up. But instead he/the club just seem to have sat on their hands and pretended it wasn't happening.