SO, it’s this week we should see some movement on the sale of Lot 1892. Quite frankly, it can’t come quickly enough.
I would like to think some of the freeloaders we traditionally employ would be moved on. Maybe we should take a leaf out of Michael Owen’s book and put an ad in the Argos catalogue?
Don’t believe all that guff about players wanting to stay and help us get promoted – that’s football speak for “no other mug would pay me all this, so you wont beat me out of here with a clarty stick”.
This brings into question the club’s perennial cry of “we have to pay over the odds to get the best here”. Considering “the best” have got us relegated, maybe we could employ people who actually want to be here. Kevin Keegan was good at that – whatever happened to him?
Stan and Ollie sent out the season ticket applications with more hope than expectation. How many of you are renewing? The appointment of Shearer is now as much about marketing than managerial acumen. I can’t think of another appointment that would galvanise the supporters.
Regarding his potential new employers, a very unscientific poll among some fellow sufferers revealed they’d prefer Monty Burns from The Simpsons before a Shepherd buy out. I’m in that corner as well.
There have been some staggering financial statistics revealed since the sale was announced, quite appropriate in the case of the biggest beneficiary – Joey Barton.
He gets a 20% “image rights” bonus, for heavens sake! How is that calculated?
That tape of his first Press conference would sell like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s ‘Derek and Clive’ live.
Don’t these people get enough in their weekly wage to cover this payment? Whatever happens I’m still looking forward to the new season.
I need my sporting fix, and watching a bunch of people playing “hit and run” in their pyjamas doesn’t do it. Wimbledon may provide an amusing, if not drooling, diversion, at a push.
