Honestly it’s like Bill Murray and ground ****ing hog day !!!! Please wake me up !!!! I need to get out of here
I see Derby are the subject of a takeover by a Saudi consortium. Possibly, the same group who wanted the Mags. What have they got that we haven't? Several things I'd guess. Championship status, though that could change. A major asset. And owners who aren't asking silly money for a business with few assets, and aren't called the Allams.
That fault can be laid squarely at the feet of our glorious owners, nobody else. There used to be all sorts played and done there didn't there?
If you'd grafted all your life to become a multi-millionaire, why on earth would you want to spend it on a field and four big sheds, so that thousands of locals could call you a **** for not buying the right blokes to make wealthy for hoofing a pigs bladder about? I'd be on a beach somewhere warm and relaxing.
If I had more than enough to sit around relaxing, that'd do me. I'd be happy for someone else to have all the hassle. I can't think of one asset stripper that's got off lightly trying to do that.
Their own ground and large fan bases as well. Which is why Sunderland, despite being nowhere near London, attract interest.
I could never understand Ken Bates, who could have spent his time on a yacht in Monaco, wanting to be involved in football anymore after making a bomb on Chelsea and getting involved with TWS.
The 'community' couldn't even make Tigers Lair pay so good luck with 'owning' the ground. Because 'owning' also means running and maintaining it.
I think if you compare average crowds down the years you will find differently. Derby is a football city, always has been.
Some people don't get these concepts. A bit like socialists who are good at spending other people's money but not creating it.
Blaster never spent a penny of his own money. When Roman's helicopter flew over Stamford bridge and he asked whose ground is that blaster had little knowledge that he had just won the lottery.
He was driven by spite as far as I could see, although some of his antics amused me. I hope it's true, but I recall a story where he 'protected' Chelsea from outside influence by selling patches of the pitch to fans, so no owner could take over the ground, only he bought enough them himself to still have rights after he's flogged it. The story read as though Abromovic was looking to make some changes after the sale, and found the obstruction was Bates, sat smiling and waving his 'rights'.
