Scathing commentary on RD and Lerner
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/apr/22/aston-villa-charlton-athletic-owners-relegated
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He's a fantastic writer. Will not mention the club he supports.1
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For some reason I always thought he was 'Boro.SDAddick said:He's a fantastic writer. Will not mention the club he supports.
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Very well written and sad reading.1
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The poshest Millwall supporter you'll ever hear. He acknowledged it on Football Weekly some years back.Cordoban Addick said:
For some reason I always thought he was 'Boro.SDAddick said:He's a fantastic writer. Will not mention the club he supports.
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Not sure he is right when he says near the end "you get the owners you deserve" what have we done to deserve out useless twat of an owner?3
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"...dangerous entrepreneurial uber-capitalist with some funny ideas".
Quite. And it's not us who are laughing.
As I wrote on another thread on Tuesday night: Money-man brings misery to thousands.2 -
He wasn't talking about us, he was talking about the game as a whole, and I think his point is a brilliant one and one I bang on about a lot:timken said:Not sure he is right when he says near the end "you get the owners you deserve" what have we done to deserve out useless twat of an owner?
"This is the real nub. You get the owners you deserve, As a society we have made the decision to submit to the market, to say pretty much anyone can own pretty much anything, the only regulating forces demand, supply and finance. This argument says football clubs are not in any real sense community assets (communities themselves are old hat) but commodities like anything else. To complain that we’re not happy unregulated markets attract both desirable investors and incompetent chancers is a bit like leaving the doors and windows open and then bursting into tears when someone walks off wth your television. This is the problem with neo-liberal economics."
"But there is nothing in English law or in football regulation to stop any of these people buying up that embedded infrastructure of clubs and grounds and generational ties and acting as they will. To offer protection, in the style of the German league, would be to perform some unacceptable act, the ultimate crime of corrupting or perverting the market. And so here we are, two grand old clubs thrashing about hoping for the right kind of buyout next time, the right kind of gambler, the right kind of monied weirdo."
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Read this earlier and picked up on the couple of inaccurate attributions, but otherwise an excellent and sad piece.
Can't believe he's a spanner though!! The Guardian and writing big words!!!
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Great read0
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I like this piece...
'the wretched Roland Duchâtelet'0 -
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Cordoban Addick said:
For some reason I always thought he was 'Boro.SDAddick said:He's a fantastic writer. Will not mention the club he supports.
His son used to play cricket for Lewisham District and trialed for Kent U11s last year. He wrote a passionate article about the demise of Lewisham as a centre for cricket but, again, he allowed his beliefs to get a little in the way of the facts.TelMc32 said:Read this earlier and picked up on the couple of inaccurate attributions, but otherwise and excellent and sad piece.
Can't believe he's a spanner though!! The Guardian and writing big words!!!0 -
That never happens here though.Addick Addict said:Cordoban Addick said:
For some reason I always thought he was 'Boro.SDAddick said:He's a fantastic writer. Will not mention the club he supports.
His son used to play cricket for Lewisham District and trialed for Kent U11s last year. He wrote a passionate article about the demise of Lewisham as a centre for cricket but, again, he allowed his beliefs to get a little in the way of the facts.TelMc32 said:Read this earlier and picked up on the couple of inaccurate attributions, but otherwise and excellent and sad piece.
Can't believe he's a spanner though!! The Guardian and writing big words!!!4 -
Its fantastic isn't it. We can all say it on here until we're blue in the face but to see it `in print' by a serious Journo in a serious broadsheet is manna from heaven....and hes absolutely right. Roland is wretched. `Wretched Roland'....kinda catchy eh.Rob said:I like this piece...
'the wretched Roland Duchâtelet'8 -
I think he meant in football generally rather than us.timken said:Not sure he is right when he says near the end "you get the owners you deserve" what have we done to deserve out useless twat of an owner?
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Superb article0
