Will he be paying his £50,000 back because as far as I can see he's done bot all for it!!!!! I find this whole thing very confusing and I can't get my tiny brain to process it. Is Short saying, I'll run the clun Niall whilst you find a new investor as I ain't coughing up more dough? Has Short had enough? Does Short want more involvment and want to Run the club Has Niall seen the writing on the wall and wants out. Doesn't seem a happy ship to me and clubs with backroom turnmoil always slump and that perhaps is the reason to our bad form (Apart from Bruce obviously) I'm very sceptical about the press release.
You're not going to see any fast results from what Milliband's doing. That's for the long haul. You've got to remember we started foreign marketing almost fifty years after Man. U. Man. U. won nothing between 1909 and 1948. They were a nothing club. The FA Cup win in 1948 did little to help - it was a good but ageing side. The Busby Babes hit the headlines a bit in the '50's because of their average age and two league titles. But that's assumed mythical proportions these days. In fact the most successful club in the '50's were Stan Cullis's Wolves, not Man. U. And then they hit marketing gold - the Munich air disaster. However you view the morals of it, they marketed that relentlessly around the world, and just a few years later they found another marketable diamond - George Best. That was the beginning of the modern Man. U. Sunderland in the meantime, made world news with a cup win in '73 and then very quickly faded back into obscurity. And we've stayed there. We're just starting out along a very, very long road. We're decades behind some other clubs, so Milliband has a lot of work to do before we see any dramatic successes.
Millibands money is for expenses on his second and third homes..and probably a fleet of cars and mistresses.
As a shields lad born and bred and having returned to my roots several times over the last 4yrs, all I can say is, if David Milliband puts as much effort into Sunderland AFC as he has his South Shields constituency then god help us. To those of you who frequent these boards and live within the town, will know that the town centre is a total disgrace. What once used to be a half decent shopping centre is a ghost town, and if your not interested in buying a mobile phone, a Gregg's pasty or visiting a charity shop then there is nothing for you. If Ellis Short is the business man he would have us believe then the first casualty of his tenure as chairman should be this total waste of space. So come on Mr Short start moving the dead wood out and the club forwards, starting with that Labour parasite.
Mag in peace, this is a really interesting post and I'd be inclined to agree with you. I think we had the ideal opportunity, had we been handled properly, to build a strong name for ourselves so many times in the 90's and unfortunately we weren't. I mean, we were most people's 'second team', we had just broken the world transfer record and were threatening Manure for the title as well as getting to consecutive FA Cup finals! Then came poor decisions and a good dose of Keegan petulance and the rest is history. For yourselves, I think you've managed the consistency needed. You've had enough years in the Prem to be considered relative old timers. You have/had in Short and Quinn a great pairing and a real sense of building for the future. for me, the thing that has stood in your way is your transfer policy and managerial choices Gyan has since proven himself to be a bit of a nob, but whether as many of us would admit, he seemed like a great buy after his first 10 games or so for you. On the other hand, you've recently gone and bought a load of ex-manure players. Now on the face of things they should add experience and poise to a team sometimes lacking it. But, for me, it was the wrong move. You need to build your own team, your own legacy so to speak. When I think of John Oshea I still think of Manure, but when I think of Tiote, Gutierrez, Colocinni, I think of them in Newcastle shirts. Same in your case with Quinn and Phillips, maybe its just me being biassed but I think you need to find players who can and will represent your team and give you an imagine that is quintessentially 'Sunderland' (like Quinn and Phillips). Bit of a long comment but never mind....
