"...vile obese and verminous"

Which is one person's view of that (ex) Liverpool owning Hicks.  It's a fair point, and could serve as a handy description of most of those who own or have owned big football clubs, including Newcastle down the years, (and I'm talking as a man whose great grandma was once engaged to Stan Seymour, forsooth).   The Liverpool saga this week has been great fun for all of us who aren't Liverpool supporters, and were secretly hoping they might end up doing a Leeds.

Not that anyone can afford to be too smug.  Newcastle, like everyone else's club, is owned by someone for whom silverware only means a better bottom line.  It's all about bucks, kid.  And I just don't know how we can get from this plutocratic situation to a more equitable one, where big chunks, if not most, if not all, of a club is owned by its supporters, like Barcelona or Real Madrid.  Who seem to do all right, btw.

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  1. MichaelSun Oct 17, 04:40:00 pm BST

    Liverpool get more and more like Newcastle in around 2005. Boardroom turmoil, Chelsea reserves who can no longer cut it on the pitch, a manager whose methods are at odds with the fans...

    Only a few major bankruptcies will change football at the top level now. TV money and the blind/stupid/continuing loyalty of fans buying overpriced tickets are the only things keeping it afloat.

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  2. Garry NixonSun Oct 17, 08:32:00 pm BST

    MAJOR bankruptcies. Man U would be great. Something to give it all a bloody good shake up.

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  3. drawjerkyMon Oct 18, 10:48:00 am BST

    ... and administration may have been better than being beaten by everton... boo hoo...

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  4. Garry NixonMon Oct 18, 12:00:00 pm BST

    "...Below us only West Ham..." Hahahahah.

    I don't know why I'm laughing, there's only a couple of points in the whole bottom half.

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