China is the USA banker. Effectively China individual savers are bank-rolling the USA. If their population was as frivilous a consumer as their western counterparts, the USA would be truly f***ed. On the football side, there is a vainglorious aspect (no doubt silently endorsed by the govt) to this. You saw it at the 2008 Olympics (show the world China is a world - sic - player etc) .
Good job then they haven't fostered the climate that can create the worlds largest telecoms eqpt vendor in 25 yrs etc ...
Although it's on a bigger scale, the Chinese league is following the path (sometimes to success, sometimes not) of many an American upstart league. Pay over the odds for a handful of big players to get asses in seats and around screens, then gradually fill out the league. In this case, though, some kind of governmental support would hardly be surprising, as a big football league would be a plus for China in many ways. Of course, we frown on governmental support for any clubs other than Real, Barca and West Ham.
Doesn't that contravene Third-Party ownership rights of American Presidents? Though surely the POTUS (and to be honest all world leaders) are already "owned" by the major financial institutes. This makes China Fourth-Party Owners of The Great Orange One. Hope they kept the receipt.
If Trump university is anything to go by, just having the receipt as proof of payment does not mean you are going to get from Hair Donald what you paid for.
Will Trump become the Al Capone of world politics I wonder? Scary....... Some of those politicians have their noses so far up Trump's backside he could make one of them wife number 4!
Somebody who may have the name value, but in actual fact was nowhere near the most successful or important figure in the underworld at the time, namely Lucky Luciano?
Can people stop using the names of known mobsters alongside President Elect Donald Trump's, please? He certainly never met any while running any of his casinos and definitely never spent any time with them. That's especially true of Robert LiButti, who he didn't have with him at a wrestling event in the 80s. please log in to view this image Photos? There were never any photos. Wrong.
Al Capone was just born in the wrong era to be President. 60 years later and he would have had every chance. Anyway, what's this got to do with "Rival Watch"? You won't be playing gangsters any time soon. You lost to Chelsea a couple of weeks ago.
Here's another. Over 50 red cards were shown to Arsenal players in the space of seven years 1996-2003..The Gooners had topped the 60 mark by 2004. I've always said Arsenal can only win things with a team of choppers! 1970-1 Their team was full of them!
Kante gets away without a booking for a blatant foul then 5 mins later the ref books a palace player for the exact same type of foul. The lack of consistency does my head in.
Palace chasing a single goal against Chelsea, so they bring on three ex-Spurs players. Given our record against them, perhaps that's not the best idea? Those players were Fraizer Campbell, Andros Townsend and Zeki Fryers, if anyone was wondering.
I think I just saw the top contender for 'most ridiculous free kick of the decade' from Townsend. Owen Farrell would have been impressed!...
Yeah, that was just awful. He had no chance when he came on either, as Palace were aimlessly hoofing it long, for some reason. Get the ball wide, get in behind and get some crosses in, surely?
