Only when we played the day after West Ham. I think it only happened once and we regained second once the week's 'round' of matches was complete. So in effect we were in the top 2 at the end of the previous week and once the next weekend's matches had been played we were in the top 2 again. Bit like the Prem where Chelsea go top, the Arsenal go top, the Man CIty go top all within a weekend. lol
Don't worry about being 2nd in the Championship. I think it's time to trot this out. Looks good doesn't it..? Like they keep saying at SFC - always believe. please log in to view this image
A good positive article to read and so refreshing after the majority of professional hacks could only write of the demise and downfall of Saints over the past 48 hours. So good to see one aspiring reporter that does his homework and writes an honest account of events. This should be on the noticeboards of all the major dailies to show those hacks what real reporting looks like. Sadly that will never happen as they prefer copy and paste or rumour to fact.
Just checking what it is you are trotting out. I'm guessing the flip chart. Wrong! TSS. My guess is that table is from 'during' the Arsenal game at nil nil?
We didn't - the nearest was home to Cardiff, they were winning 1-0 which would have put them 2nd us third (January?). SRL took the decisive penalty And oh yes, good article DTLW!
Great article DTLW. No unnecessary padding, and all the relevant facts. I'm interested that, the way you phrase it, that finishing second to Reading may have been the first nail in Nigel's coffin. I personally think that Cortese always meant to get in a manager capable of pushing for Europe once we got to the Prem, and was waiting for Pochettino to become available before showing Adkins the door. Anyway, good stuff.
DTLW - just by way of a little constructive criticism (so please take the right way) stylistically - reading through it top to bottom is quite interesting in terms of *how* you're writing. The start of the article is a little bit 'choppy' in your sentence construction, which surprised me a little because when you write fluidly you're very good. I think you might have got bogged down a little too much in presenting facts, which is to the detriment of your individual style. About midway through it regains a bit of that fluency again (when you're feeling able to offer opinion rather than fact, so am guessing it 'flowed' a bit easier). I would just say don't sacrifice that fluency of style when presenting factual information. Allow the sentences to flow a bit more. Hope that makes some kind of sense? It's a really easy trap to fall in to, and it holds you back from developing an individual voice in your writing. Don't lose that, it's what identifies it as you.
I felt the article got better as it went along. The start needed work...grammar needed some polishing ...it is the most important part of an article as you grab or lose your reader at that point. I think this is the problem with blogs...cut and paste can produce errors that the old typing, editing system didn't.
Would it have been Katharina's money that has been put in since Markus' death, or was it money that Markus had put aside for when he passed to be invested in Southampton? I'm sure there were reports saying that he'd left plans for us to ensure we were in a safe position.
I was 0% loans owed that were turned into equity. Even if it was always intended to be turned into equity it would have had to be signed of at the end otherwise it would have been a gift and liable for tax if I understand correctly so she (or whoever was owner of the debt) could have insisted on repayment. I could be wrong but these 0% loans are pretty common in football over the past couple of decades as a way of putting money into a club without it being a gift and thus liable for tax. Thus putting 100% of the money into the club rather than X% to club and Y% to HMRC.
Have never understood this changing of a debt to equity when you already own 100% of the club...guess it's just one of those accounting tricks.
2nd in BPL was when we were 1-0 up against Chelsea. Took a screenshot as I wasn't sure how long it would last!
So when we lost we would have 24 points from 13 games. Now, we are on 30 from 21 games. 6 points since then. Shows how much our form, as in results, has dipped. Yet, we are still 9th and well ahead of the bottom half. If that is our blip. Good news!
Club has £8 million in assets (stadium & training ground basically, not including players). However, it has over £50 million of debt. This is more than when ML took over. Sent from my RM-914_eu_euro1_337 using Tapatalk
it can be useful to invest in the form of loans to give you the option to extract the same value before corporation or personal tax. as the owners are Swiss based I don't know how beneficial this is to them. converting the loans to equity turns it into capital invested, which would mean any benefit can only be taken when offsetting against capital gains on a sale (again I don't know the situation for swiss residents) it's probably just tidier not to have the loan outstanding.
Where are you getting this from? Accounts for the championship season show debts of £40m and as we've since been promoted to the premier league it's very unlikely they've grown.
In truth, I can't remember when I hit the Print Screen button to record the table, FLT. You're possibly right that it is during a game, because the table is from the BBC, and is probably one of their active ones, hence the ...as it stands headline. One piece of evidence which mitigates against that though is that all the games are at 13, which is unusual, mid-match on a weekend. I might bother to look it up. If I find anything of note I'll edit this message.
