Quote Ehab, if we hadn't bought the club it would have headed towards ''probable extinction''! In this day of pre-pack admins I'm sure the club would have survived, admittedly as a very different one, so 'possible extinction'' maybe, not probable.....
No-one forced them to buy the club, and as businessmen they bought it with the intention of making money. If it's not doing so they only have themselves to blame, and this exercise is not going to dig them out of the hole they have made. They should forget the emotive language and spend more time thinking of proper ways of marketing a premier league football club, engaging with the thousands of fans the club already has would be a good place to start.
You're right. He shoulda said "certain extinction" but he probably realised people don't want to hear that, so went for a less emotive quote.
I cant be arsed to dig up the Adam Pearson quote again happy. They dont acknowledge it but just his name seems to placate them a little and then the thread dies.....
It's irrelevant. We all thought he was great then and AP was no different. Since then, he's sacked AP for no reason, fallen out with his replacement NT, and failed to even replace him leaving us with no one sensible in control of the club. Along with all the other **** he's done since then including this name change farce, do you think AP would say the same thing now?
If the Allam's hadn't bought the club, it would not have disappeared, it might have done a Rangers and it certainly wouldn't be in the Premier League now, but there's no way this city would have been left with no football club.
This is 100% true. We've had much darker days before and survived even if we didn't exactly prosper. Dare I say the name David Lloyd...
Impossible to say, if it was bought from an administrator for 1p in the pound, then it would have continued exactly as it was, just with a points deduction. If it went into liquidation, then it would probably have been like Rangers, who went from Rangers Football Club, to The Rangers Football Club and everyone just ignores the The.
Rangers, Celtic, Arsenal, Chelsea, tottenham and a host of others manage without the name of the city they are in. Wouldn't mind a change to Kingston instead of the name of a river. Far classier. A team uniting the city - Kingston United. Playing in the city colours of blue and gold. It would be the same club of course.
If Allams hadn't stepped in when they did I reckon we would probably be round about where Portsmouth are now
They don't have a Premier League football club though. Which One do people automatically think of when you say Newcastle, upon Tyne or under Lyme? Maybe the Geordies should rename themselves Tyne United? It is shorter. Or even Tyne Magpies so they can open up markets where magpies are revered?
