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Reply | Is it Palace for Eze?
at 20:31 26 Aug 2020
I remember when we sold Rodney Marsh, it seemed like the end of the world to me as a (then) young man. But we started an unbeaten run that lasted 22 games and bought Don Givens, Stan Bowles and Dave Thomas. So let's hope for something similar. |
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Reply | Happy VE day chaps.
at 14:02 11 May 2020
My father was a Jeep driver with a Royal Artillery anti-tank regiment. After surviving the Battle of Normandy in 1944, he was killed in combat in Belgium in January 1945 (in the Ardennes). I was only 10 months old, so I never knew him: but I keep a photo of him on my bookshelf and have visited his grave in Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium a couple of times. My view is that it in 2020 it is now time to consign World War 2 to the history books, as something to study as an illustration of human fallibility and cruelty rather than something to celebrate with street parties. |
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Reply | Is Tone a bit distracted
at 13:09 2 Feb 2020
I think that the published evidence we have points to Caterham being the vehicle, because they were the sports team being sponsored by Airbus.
My reason for saying this is that I visited the Serious Fraud Office webpage https://www.sfo.gov.uk/download/airbus-se-deferred-prosecution-agreement-stateme this morning and downloaded the papers relating to the recent UK High Court decision. Their file "R v Airbus - Statement of Facts.pdf" has a useful summary of the Malasian element of the case. It states on page 12:
"43. Between October 2013 and January 2015 EADS France SAS, later Airbus Group SAS, paid US$50 million as sponsorship for a sports team (“Sports team”). The Sports team was jointly owned by AirAsia Executive 1 and AirAsia Executive 2 but was legally unrelated to AirAsia and AirAsia X. Airbus employees also offered an additional US$55 million. This offer was not finalised and no payment was made."
"44. AirAsia Executive 1 and AirAsia Executive 2 were key decision makers in AirAsia and AirAsia X, and were rewarded in respect of the order of 180 aircraft from Airbus. The payments to the Sports team were intended to secure or reward improper favour by them in respect of that business." |
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Reply | When We Sold Rodney Marsh.
at 18:33 31 Jan 2020
I too was devastated. At the same time Terry Venables was suffering from a deep-lying pelvic injury and missed the rest of the 1971-72 season and a number of other experienced players (including Frank Saul) were sold.
And yet after Rodney's sale we were undefeated in our remaining 12 league games. Venables returned from his long-term injury for the start of the 1972-73 season and we went a further 8 league games before suffering a 4 - 1 stuffing at Hull (after scoring first). I was at their old Boothferry Park stadium that night and felt even worse at the end of that remarkable 20 game undefeated league run than I did when Rodney left us.
Anyway, the point of my old man's waffle is that you can never be certain that the departure of a favourite will be a disaster. |
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Reply | Wells off?
at 12:08 27 Jan 2020
I agree with you 100% |
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Reply | Brentford
at 14:53 12 Jan 2020
This was also the strategy we adopted in the 1960s and which gave us Gerry, Mick Leach, Martyn Busby, Dave Clement, Ian Gillard, Rodney, Stan and others. It also saw us rise from the Third Division (today we call it League One) to become a competitive First Division (today's Premier League). There were setbacks along the way, but it did work. |
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Reply | Next manager?
at 18:55 5 Apr 2019
Les Allen was a very good player for us and a certain Terry Venables was a brilliant player and manager. But Alan Mullery was a bit of a disaster, so you may have a point. |
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Reply | Eustace.
at 19:48 2 Apr 2019
I'm old enough to remember when Les Allen resigned as manager in January 1971, at a time when we were candidates for relegation from the old Second Division (today's Championship). Six months earlier the club had appointed a certain Gordon Jago as chief coach.
Jago's most recent experience had been 2 years as manager of Baltimore Bays in the USA which was hardly a 5-star recommendation to the fans. Yet Jago did not depart along with Allen as many would have Eustace do. Instead the club gave Jago the manager's job on a temporary basis. Under Jago we went on to finish in mid-table and were promoted to the old First Divison at the end of the 1972/73 season (as runners up to Burnley).
We are now living in a very different world to those days and I'm not trying to say that Eustace is another Jago. But he might be. Give him a chance instead of slagging him off. |
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Reply | McClaren suffers long term pain after short term gain — Column
at 14:50 2 Apr 2019
This is my 1st post. Favourite cheese: Cheddar.
A report in The Times today by Matt Hughes suggests that the pay-off to McClaren may be limited to the balance of his salary for this season, because of a break clause that the journalist understands to be in McClaren's contract. If this is true, then the financial damage may not be as bad we thought. |
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