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Bindiana · Jul 21, 2011

Diadora Barnes storm said: ↑

am i the only liverpool fan who is embarassed by KPR's behaviour, like a previous poster said I cant really recall many posts where he's not having a go at Man Utd.

it smacks of obsession, leave that to them.
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Your not the only one it seems a lot of good threads just result in a slanging match of us vs them its a shame really. There was no need for an insults towards them on this as the op raised some good points.

good kop red kop · Jul 21, 2011

Muppetfinder General said: ↑

I sat through it thinking it was obviously shady but not strictly illegal and a lawyer would rip through their evidence, which appeared to happen at the end.

I thought selling a training ground to a supermarket, who'll want to buy it for the potential customers and infrastructure, then moving to a quieter, cheaper place in a green belt made sound economic sense. But then are the facilities improved or cheapened?

We all know football runs on relationships and Fergie's top dog. The LMA is his gang. But personal relationships were around in the old days, too. if a player came to us because he was a mate of a player already with us would we be bothered? If Kenny gave a loan to Didi Hammann or Paul Ince would we expect him to be investigated? Just because Ferguson has a relationship with Steve Bruce and that Joe bloke, doesn't mean Steve Bruce is involved in corruption because he does Fergie a favour with a loaner for a bloke who may be corrupt.

But I'm no lawyer.

Power corrupts. More money = more corruption. But it's not just football. The whole world changed in the 80s and football went along with it. It had to. There's an old business ethos: 'Expand or die.'

I remember when I was in my teens (70s) I was at the movies all the time. There weren't nearly as many made back then. They were big events. And it seems like there was more variety back then, more originality. Then in the 80s Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer created their High Concept (oh the irony) formula and the conveyer belt of rock soundtracks was born - Beverley Hills Cop, Top Gun, etc etc. Now we've got multiplexes for more movies and Football First for more games.

The movies were like a microcosm of the whole world. It all got shinier and gaudier and about making a buck. It's too late to go back now. We sold our soul for a rock soundtrack.
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Missed this yesterday - amidst all of KPR's huffing and puffing. Great observation, MFG.

GKRK

BringBackfootie · Jul 21, 2011

Muppetfinder General said: ↑

I sat through it thinking it was obviously shady but not strictly illegal and a lawyer would rip through their evidence, which appeared to happen at the end.

I thought selling a training ground to a supermarket, who'll want to buy it for the potential customers and infrastructure, then moving to a quieter, cheaper place in a green belt made sound economic sense. But then are the facilities improved or cheapened?

We all know football runs on relationships and Fergie's top dog. The LMA is his gang. But personal relationships were around in the old days, too. if a player came to us because he was a mate of a player already with us would we be bothered? If Kenny gave a loan to Didi Hammann or Paul Ince would we expect him to be investigated? Just because Ferguson has a relationship with Steve Bruce and that Joe bloke, doesn't mean Steve Bruce is involved in corruption because he does Fergie a favour with a loaner for a bloke who may be corrupt.

But I'm no lawyer.

Power corrupts. More money = more corruption. But it's not just football. The whole world changed in the 80s and football went along with it. It had to. There's an old business ethos: 'Expand or die.'

I remember when I was in my teens (70s) I was at the movies all the time. There weren't nearly as many made back then. They were big events. And it seems like there was more variety back then, more originality. Then in the 80s Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer created their High Concept (oh the irony) formula and the conveyer belt of rock soundtracks was born - Beverley Hills Cop, Top Gun, etc etc. Now we've got multiplexes for more movies and Football First for more games.

The movies were like a microcosm of the whole world. It all got shinier and gaudier and about making a buck. It's too late to go back now. We sold our soul for a rock soundtrack.
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Agree but thats a hell of a can of worms to open and now I got worms all over the floor, thx Could be here all year adding to that^.

I remember back in the day when you were choosing what to spend your hard earned cash on, you made a decision based on quality and definately longevity. Longevity is no longer a requirement when making a product to sell these days, made ot fail within a time period is everything

Ze · Jul 21, 2011

Any further references to Man Utd will be deleted, this is a Liverpool forum and this thread has little to nothing to do with Man Utd. Back on topic.

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