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Reply | Gazette - Blackpool sky high profits
at 23:10 9 Mar 2015
It is clear from even the most rudimentary reading of the accounts that for the owners of Blackpool FC, not only does profit come before football but that the football side of the business should be neglected in order to maximise profit. There is a direct causal relationship: Pre-tax profits increase year-on-year by £5.9m; Investment in football-related expenditure (inc. players wages & transfer fees), reduces by £1.2m; loans from the football club to the club's operating company (ie. away from football-related activity), increase by £4m. And all this at a time when the on-field gains made during the Grayson/Parks/Holloway years have given way to a rudderless shambles of a team, going nowhere but down. |
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Reply | Give Karl a Break
at 23:53 22 Dec 2014
I'd give him a break...A broken leg perhaps, or arm...or maybe a broken promise. After all we were due a Riga revolution were we not? A chance to build a football team from scratch! Yes, Mr foul-mouth knows all about broken promises doesn't he? Still, as long as he throws a few quid at a charity that's alright then. After all, if you've got the cash doesn't that excuse you from censure when you casually throw out expletives?....F**k this, special needs that, retard the other. |
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Reply | More Popular than Jesus
at 17:56 11 Dec 2014
One of the great things about Lennon for me was that he was a very interesting person. He always had something to say and was articulate about it. In the 'swinging' London of the 1960s, when the Beatles were in their pomp he gravitated to the likes of Peter Cook and Richard Lester without ever becoming part of a 'set'....as didn't George Harrison when he buddied up with the Pythons.
This is the sort of cross-cultural and intellectually stimulating personality that seems to be missing from so many celebrity media-people in our pre-packaged, buy one X-factor clone, get one free, age. Not that I deny their talent. There are some really good singers and show people out there but what's behind the PR-trained smile when you poke it with a stick? We should, perhaps, be thankful that we've still got Billy Bragg and Ian Hislop putting in the occasional Question Time and writing stuff like the Wipers Times - excellent TV drama!), but they're hardly spring chickens. |
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Reply | More Popular than Jesus
at 10:32 9 Dec 2014
I've been a huge Lennon fan since I first got interested in pop music back in 1969 and, like others, I too have wondered what he would have gone on to do if he hadn't been killed. In the short term I don't think his comeback would have been successful. However, I do believe that he would have made an excellent return at Live Aid 84 in America and that this would have kick-started his career again,possibly via a world tour. In the long term though, I think his star would have waned again by the early 90s. Hopefully he would have had the sense to bow out gracefully or turn his hand to other ventures if he were to remain in the public eye - perhaps with a final 'Beatles' appearance at George Harrison's Albert Hall remembrance concert.
Of course, we all do this kind of hindsight stuff: what would Elvis have gone on to do if he'd kept off the burgers? Would James Dean's acting career have lived up to the early promise in those first three films? Would Kennedy and Khrushchev have eventually precipitated WW3? |
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Reply | OT : Autumn Statement
at 22:31 8 Dec 2014
It really, really upsets me how far, since the end of WW2, the British public have allowed themselves to be duped, conned and lead by the nose by the treacherous, self-serving right-wing media in this country. The condescending aphorism, "give them a credit card and they're all middle class", is actually a truism that underpins the selfish, libertarian commercialism upon which so much of everyone's day-to-day existence is based: even people with extremely little in the way of capital wealth behind them see a need to prostitute themselves to the God of commercialism during the annual December shopping festival. In celebration of what? The birth of Jesus Christ or a debasing needs to show your kids that you can be a good parent too? Overwhelming wealth and power lie in the hands of big business and its lickspittle, brown-nosing political expression, the Tory party. The only chance there is for the people of this country to breathe life back into its honourable public consciousness is to reject the salivating private greed of the Tories, reject the small nation racist rhetoric of Farage, and look to Labour and the Green Party for any sense of community and social conscience. Yes it's easy (and lazy) to say that labour are all tax and spend. But without the provision of public service through a well-intentioned and well-managed fiscal policy, we aint got a hope. We will be back in the hands of private landlords, private insurers, private health provision, private schools and private law enforcement. Do you fancy buying your kids education from G4S or, perhaps, checking over the private GP tariffs on offer from Smith Klein Beecham (got 2 kids? buy one all-inclusive 2 year health deal, get you second kid at half price!). |
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