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What were we supposed to do if not buy glory.

The shitty Man utd went to Lloyds to get a loan,
The shitty Man utd went to Lloyds to get a loan,
The shitty Man utd went to Lloyds to get a loan,
And this is what they said,
FUCK OFF!
You're in debt for half a billion,
You're in debt for half a billion,
You're in debt for half a billion,
And you're gonna be bankrupt soon.



Fuck em.


I've ot made up a song for years.

You know, the most telling statistic on that entire article is the fact that the Rags spent £6.75mil on Pallister, Webb, Phelan, Ince and Wallace. This was BEFORE they had even won a league title. I'd like to add Schmeichel into the mix as well. He was the world's most expensive 'keeper when he signed for them in '91, wasn't he?

Now, the fundamental point of all this is that Man Utd "fans" would have you believe that their successes gave them the funds to go out and spend big bucks in the transfer market. Fairy nuff- but where on earth did they get this money prior to '93? An FA Cup success in 1990? The Cup Winners Cup in 91?

The 'holier than thou' crap emanating from their collective orifices makes me sick.

It's very easy to say that Man City have 'bought' the league. In fact, it's a lazy argument. Yes, people will look at the record books in years to come, wonder how Man City got where they are, how they won the league to break the dominance of Man Utd and Chelsea and the simple answer would be; 'ridiculous investment at the behest of a foreign owner'.

However, if you were to look at the kind of money other big clubs have invested, and yet come up wih nothing (Newcastle, Tottenham, Leeds), it's a massive, massive achievement to win the league in spite of what was spent.

IanWright wrote:You know, the most telling statistic on that entire article is the fact that the Rags spent £6.75mil on Pallister, Webb, Phelan, Ince and Wallace. This was BEFORE they had even won a league title. I'd like to add Schmeichel into the mix as well. He was the world's most expensive 'keeper when he signed for them in '91, wasn't he?

Now, the fundamental point of all this is that Man Utd "fans" would have you believe that their successes gave them the funds to go out and spend big bucks in the transfer market. Fairy nuff- but where on earth did they get this money prior to '93? An FA Cup success in 1990? The Cup Winners Cup in 91?

The 'holier than thou' crap emanating from their collective orifices makes me sick.

It's very easy to say that Man City have 'bought' the league. In fact, it's a lazy argument. Yes, people will look at the record books in years to come, wonder how Man City got where they are, how they won the league to break the dominance of Man Utd and Chelsea and the simple answer would be; 'ridiculous investment at the behest of a foreign owner'.

However, if you were to look at the kind of money other big clubs have invested, and yet come up wih nothing (Newcastle, Tottenham, Leeds), it's a massive, massive achievement to win the league in spite of what was spent.

Great post mate. Rag fans have short memories.

IanWright wrote:You know, the most telling statistic on that entire article is the fact that the Rags spent £6.75mil on Pallister, Webb, Phelan, Ince and Wallace. This was BEFORE they had even won a league title. I'd like to add Schmeichel into the mix as well. He was the world's most expensive 'keeper when he signed for them in '91, wasn't he?

Now, the fundamental point of all this is that Man Utd "fans" would have you believe that their successes gave them the funds to go out and spend big bucks in the transfer market. Fairy nuff- but where on earth did they get this money prior to '93? An FA Cup success in 1990? The Cup Winners Cup in 91?

The 'holier than thou' crap emanating from their collective orifices makes me sick.

It's very easy to say that Man City have 'bought' the league. In fact, it's a lazy argument. Yes, people will look at the record books in years to come, wonder how Man City got where they are, how they won the league to break the dominance of Man Utd and Chelsea and the simple answer would be; 'ridiculous investment at the behest of a foreign owner'.

However, if you were to look at the kind of money other big clubs have invested, and yet come up wih nothing (Newcastle, Tottenham, Leeds), it's a massive, massive achievement to win the league in spite of what was spent.

Brilliant post, especially that last sentence.

WORTH EVERY PENNY

ronk wrote:WORTH EVERY PENNY

Beat me to it ;-)

ronk wrote:WORTH EVERY PENNY

Well said.

Maybe that's true but at the end of the day what's wrong with it? As a Liverpool supporter I'm delighted that Man City have won the title today and the way they did it was just incredible. It's not an easy thing to win your first Premier League title regardless of who you're playing. Most exciting thing I've seen in years. I suppose it compares favourably with Liverpool's Champion's League win in 2005.

also, I wouldn't discount the fact that all these 'ridiculous investment at the behest of a foreign owner', are free flowing around English Football, thus benefit all the system.

Plus, it goes without saying... the huge investment on refurbishing Eastlands, relevant jobs created and further bussiness opportunities. I don't recall the same from the Russian and the Trafford development is sooo amateur-esque, as the recent news about Ratface's hotel prove again.

Ahhh,it's started this morning with Irani on TS. Congratulates us in one hand but ends each sentence with 'Big Money'.

Got to say though, his bitterness is making me smile.

Beefymcfc wrote:Ahhh,it's started this morning with Irani on TS. Congratulates us in one hand but ends each sentence with 'Big Money'.

Got to say though, his bitterness is making me smile.

Complete knob. I always find tubby Brazil quite fair though - for an ex-RAG. And good comedy pronunciations.

jamesafarren wrote:Maybe that's true but at the end of the day what's wrong with it? As a Liverpool supporter I'm delighted that Man City have won the title today and the way they did it was just incredible. It's not an easy thing to win your first Premier League title regardless of who you're playing. Most exciting thing I've seen in years. I suppose it compares favourably with Liverpool's Champion's League win in 2005.

Thank you, as has been said elsewhere, it is a very familiar financial model (in football, other sports and business in general) - owner invests capital, success follows, revenues increase to match expenditure. Nothing wrong with it at all. No different to the investment the rags had from the butcher that used to own them or from their new owners when the club was sold via the stock market. No different either from investment owners made in Liverpool FC in decades past to kick start their success.

This is only very loosely on topic, but so funny I had to share.

From a comment on a BBC story with the usual "buying the league" rubbish being spouted by assorted sad rags. Someone came up with this

"At least there is some comfort for United fans. They know which trains to catch from Euston when they become City fans next season."

It did rather amuse me.

Ironically as we do the things we need to do to become more self sustaining (i.e. new sponsorship & commercial deals, attracting new fans), things will only get more venomous. Bandwagon fans, corporate cronyism, we're already hearing it. Basically we were never supposed to be allowed to get to where we are. Well the cartel got a little too cozy and we've smashed it to pieces...whoops!

I'm thinking back to John Henry this week, who ridiculed our Etihad deal, then tried to win the nepotism sweepstakes himself with Liverpool's record kit deal. In light of recent events I wonder who is happier with their investment at this moment in time.

Bear60 wrote:

IanWright wrote:You know, the most telling statistic on that entire article is the fact that the Rags spent £6.75mil on Pallister, Webb, Phelan, Ince and Wallace. This was BEFORE they had even won a league title. I'd like to add Schmeichel into the mix as well. He was the world's most expensive 'keeper when he signed for them in '91, wasn't he?

Now, the fundamental point of all this is that Man Utd "fans" would have you believe that their successes gave them the funds to go out and spend big bucks in the transfer market. Fairy nuff- but where on earth did they get this money prior to '93? An FA Cup success in 1990? The Cup Winners Cup in 91?

The 'holier than thou' crap emanating from their collective orifices makes me sick.

It's very easy to say that Man City have 'bought' the league. In fact, it's a lazy argument. Yes, people will look at the record books in years to come, wonder how Man City got where they are, how they won the league to break the dominance of Man Utd and Chelsea and the simple answer would be; 'ridiculous investment at the behest of a foreign owner'.

However, if you were to look at the kind of money other big clubs have invested, and yet come up wih nothing (Newcastle, Tottenham, Leeds), it's a massive, massive achievement to win the league in spite of what was spent.

Great post mate. Rag fans have short memories.

Neal they have'nt got short memories it's just that all their fans now think football was invented in 1992.

Can anyone on here convert an Excel spreadsheet to jpeg? I have tied and failed :(

I have still got the figures since the PL started showing us and the "old top 4" I would like to share.

CTID Hants wrote:Can anyone on here convert an Excel spreadsheet to jpeg? I have tied and failed :(

I have still got the figures since the PL started showing us and the "old top 4" I would like to share.

you need to download a virtual image print driver, same idea as printing to pdf but does jpegs e.g. easy jpeg printer

Jon, I tried downloading a few bits but they were Shit and didn't convert the whole print area!!

Do you have it? I am up in Hull at the mo and laptop is up in my room. Happy to email it to you? Has your email.address changed in the last 10 years? LOL

CTID Hants wrote:Jon, I tried downloading a few bits but they were Shit and didn't convert the whole print area!!

Do you have it? I am up in Hull at the mo and laptop is up in my room. Happy to email it to you? Has your email.address changed in the last 10 years? LOL

If you click on the spreadsheet so it's the selected window and hold down Alt and Print Screen, it should take a copy of your spreadsheet window to the clipboard.

Then you should be able to go to the start menu-->acessories --> paint. Open paint and paste the image (CTRL+V) and then save it as a jpeg. (or what ever image type)