Palace face eviction from Selhurst!

[Pretty pink fairy]

I think it's time to change your medication.

tell me about your last trip there ??

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

best of luck to the Palace. I hope that they get things sorted out soon. I owe a debt of gratitude to a Palace fan and I would not want them to come into any serious problems.

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

tell me about your last trip there ??

Will you two just kiss and make up! :hammer:

 

[Sweeney Todd]

A lot

I hadn't noticed.

 

[little al]

There are two clear and distinct issues here.

1. The effect this will have on the squad and ultimately their ability to stay in the divison they are in.

2. The Financial health of the club and the risk of bankruptcy.

On point 1 tough shit. They can live with the crap much as we have had to put up with. Any feeling any remors or symapthey just have a look at some threads on the Away Forum on the BBS. There are some real scrotes on there who get away with stuff the mods would not allow here.

On point 2 best wishes to them that this never happens. All football supporters should or would never wish bankruptcy on any other club nver mind their rivals. No rivalry no passion!

I totally agree actually. If it was the other way round,

1. Funny
2. Sad

 

[little al]

Simster.

Whilst we have a long jump pit, an way end fartther away than Southwick and Portakabins for hospitality I think we should be less critical.

Made me

 

[little al]

We are a loyal bunch on this forum,ive seen the thread you started on the BBS recently.

Completely different banter Wiggy, and you lot set yourself up for that mate.

 

[beorhthelm]

Your point being?

We suffered because some money grabbing twats ruined the club and you know what? we're back and, I think. stronger for it all. You have to cut out the cancer before you can heal.

We were the victims of Bellotti and Archer and Palace fans will be the victims of Jordan. Shit happens at the end of the day.

I think the way that Palace fans in general have responded to our issues..WITH EXCEPTIONS..has been a f***ing disgrace and therefore let them fight there own... as we have had to.

arent Palarse in this position because of Noades sold off the ground seperatly to the rest of the club? not really the victim of Jordon who appears to put his hand in his pocket for them.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

arent Palarse in this position because of Noades sold off the ground seperatly to the rest of the club? not really the victim of Jordon who appears to put his hand in his pocket for them.

I was thinking more about the syphoning since.

I would agree that latterly the cash has been slipping back in the other direction which is why Tango wants out I suspect.

To illustrate:......

How much money do you have in your wallet? I have £800 on me at the moment, which is actually a little less than I would carry normally. Usually I have a couple of thousand.

I carry the money because I’m a huge tipper. When I was younger, I struggled and ended up waiting tables, and I remember what it was like to be on that side of the business.

Whenever I go out, I tip generously. My average tip is always 35% to 40% of the bill. That usually works out at about £100.

If I park my car I usually tip about £50, not because I’m being flash but because I know that next time they’ll look after me. The largest tip I gave was £1,000 at the Waterside Inn at Bray in Berkshire.

Do you have any credit cards? I have a gold Mastercard with a £250,000 limit which I’ve reached and gone over a few times. I also have a platinum Visa, a gold Visa and a platinum Morgan Stanley card.

I use them for pretty much everything, from buying cars to grocery shopping. I think the combined credit limit is something like £750,000.

The most I’ve spent on a single item is probably about £75,000. It was for a watch or a car, I can’t remember exactly.

My normal credit-card spend is about £50,000 to £60,000 a month. I don’t always pay off the bills so interest charges can be quite high, although not so high that they are difficult to manage.

Are you a saver or a spender? A spender, or rather a consistent and persistent investor. Everything I do in life is based upon investing in something: opening restaurants; financing movies; buying a football club; flying my dad around the world.

Every year I ask my father where he would like to go on holiday and then I pay for him and an old army colleague of his to go there. My father is a very fit man and a former footballer who is 59 but acts like he’s 10 years younger.

This year he went to Peru. The year before that he went to Germany to watch all the World Cup games from first to last.

How much did you earn last year? Not quite £10m, but getting there.

I’m funding a movie and I’ve also recently bought and invested in a chain of bars called Club Bar & Dining in the West End of London. I also have a property company in Spain where I’ve invested £10m. I built 25 villas with that in Marbella.


Have you ever been really hard up? In my early twenties, before I set up Pocket Phone Shop, I started a mobile-phone business which didn’t work out. I fell out with my business partner at the time and ended up in a lot of financial trouble so I moved to America to start again.

I survived by waiting on tables in New York, earning something like $500 a week. At my worst point, I was living in a hotel on 116th Street in Spanish Harlem. The hotel had one bathroom between 18 bedrooms. I lived there for about six months but eventually sold my gold bracelet to get a flight back to London.

What is the most lucrative work you have ever done? Did you use the fee for something special? Selling my mobile-phone business for £73m. Andrew Briggs and I started it by investing £15,000 each. We split the profits when we sold it, so we got about £36m each.

I used £11m of the proceeds to buy Crystal Palace and I’ve spent another £24m on the club since.

Do you own a property? Apart from the Spanish properties, which are more of a business, I have a home in Marbella. The nine-bedroom villa cost me about £6m in 2001. It has a six-car garage, a tennis court, a full sized football pitch, an olympic-sized swimming pool and a cinema room. I recently sold my three-bedroom penthouse in Chelsea overlooking Battersea Park for £2.5m. I’m in the process of looking to buy somewhere else, either in Malibu in California, where I might be doing some business, or somewhere else in London.

When I’m in London I stay at the Grosvenor hotel where I’ve had a permanent suite for the past seven years. It costs a couple of hundred thousand a year.

Do you invest in shares? I invest in people’s businesses as well as the stock market. Last year I probably had about £1m in shares, mostly in technology firms. Currently I have about £750,000 in the stock market. I use stockbrokers such as Charles Stanley and am agreeing a deal with Hargreaves Hale. I tend to allow them to make decisions about what shares to buy.

Do you have any Isas? Nope. I don’t feel I need them.

Do you have a pension or other retirement plan? I’m not a huge fan of pensions. I think I’ll probably manage on the money that I have already.

What has been your worst investment? If you’re talking purely in terms of finance, I would have to say the football club. Even though I’m making money from it, I still haven’t recovered my £35m investment. From an emotional standpoint, however, it’s been my best as well. Investing in Crystal Palace was a labour of love and whilst initially I was making a healthy profit, it is now a cost to me.

What aspect of our taxation system would you change? I think there needs to be some reform of inheritance tax, which I see as a completely soulless, immoral tax. It’s punishing people who have worked hard all their lives.

What is your financial priority? I don’t feel I have one other than wanting my investments to work. I especially want this movie that I’m working on to be successful. I’m the first British producer to sole-fund a movie in 35 years. I’m doing it simply because I enjoy and believe in it.

Do you have a money weakness? I invest in a lot of people but they’re not always the right people to help. I once lent a friend £2m. He didn’t pay me back. It’s a long story but, needless to say, he’s not my friend anymore. It has made me slightly more cynical but not so much that I’m not willing to take some risks.

What is the most extravagant thing you have ever bought? A football club is quite an extravagant purchase. Apart from the costs in running it, I’ve bought some extras such as a Boodles & Dunthorne diamond ring for £100,000 to celebrate when we reached the Premiership last year.

I also have 15 cars. Nine are in Spain and six in London. My favourite is the titanium silver Aston Martin Vanquish. I bought that a couple of years ago for £200,000. I also have a McLaren SLR, a Mercedes SL65 AMG, a Jaguar XJ, a Porsche Carrera, a Lamborghini Gallardo, a Ferrari 612 and a Ferrari 660. I also have a yacht moored in Marbella. I bought it nine months ago for £3m. It costs £150,000 a year to berth it, £60,000 a year to clean it and about £200,000 a year just to take it out – all good fun.

Do you play the lottery? What would you do if you won? I don’t agree with it. I think money is something you have to earn through hard work. If I won, I’d give it to charity – maybe something that helped disadvantaged kids.

What is the most important lesson you have learnt about money? Money is one of the least important things. Don’t do things for money; do things for success.

 

[sir albion]

This is fantastic news and made my daylets hope all those pikeys rott in hell:yahoo:

 

[Bhafcman]

This is fantastic news and made my daylets hope all those pikeys rott in hell:yahoo:

yupp couldnt have happened to a worser bunch expect maybe manure but this is good and hope fully goood riddance

 

[Bob!]

Who will offer a groundshare though ? QUOTE]

AFC Wimbledon?

 

[champion7]

Love them or hate them it's not nice seeing any club going under especially when its 1 of your rivals.I hope they get it soughted out soon.

 

[Chrystal Palace]

This is very worrying, hate to see it happen to any club, didn't like seeing it happen to you lot, relegation due to bad management etc is funny, this stuff isn't. The main problem at the moment is that we are in the Championship. Anyone can and will beat anyone, meaning nobody is exempt from the possibility of relegation, which is mirrored slightly in League 1. Problem with this being that going down would put us out of business for good.

I don't think it'll go yet, but it won't be long.

And for those who said about new buyers and rumours circling, their are none. Not one solitary rumour.

Good luck to Brighton in future, money wise of course, as you know better than most how bad this is, and I would hate to see it happen to someone so important in my footballing life, it is much sadder watching a rival struggle financially than some team you don't care about, like Blackpool, for example.

Do inform me if and when you find a new rival.

 

[Bwian]

Love them or hate them it's not nice seeing any club going under especially when its 1 of your rivals.I hope they get it soughted out soon.

I don't want them going under but I really hope the pikey scum have a good few years of agony-not knowing if their shitty club will survive or not. Maybe then they'll look back on all of the piss taking of the last 12 or 14 years through different eyes. Sadly, somebody will step in and save them but I sincerely hope they end up in the Conference. f*** 'em-let them become a smaller club than Orient because after the encounters I've had with their 'fans' over the years, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

 

[wigman]

you lot set yourself up for that mate.

You lot; 700 plus posts in 5 months,
Your more a regular than most of us on here!

 

[Jamie]

palace on the brink, pompey on the brink, Albion building Falmer debt free and on the up. Is it Christmas? Cant wait to watch 15 years of palace in the lower divisions, hopefully playing miles from Croydon and getting less than we got playing 140 mile round trip away. Nope I dont want them to fold but yes i do want them to suffer as we did, then play them in a cup game or three to beat the 9-0 a few times.

 

[Bwian]

Hows the bus?


Probably shunted you from behind seeing as you like it up the backside so much.

I agree. The Albion isn't very fitting. Maybe Brighton and Hove Cocklovers? Or maybe just Brighton sends that message across

Remember those comments?

Don't come on here crying the blues about your poxy club. Dickheads like you deserve the shit you're going through and long may it continue. Now, please f*** off back to your BBS where you might find somebody who gives a shit.

 

[little al]

You lot; 700 plus posts in 5 months,
Your more a regular than most of us on here!

Do you have annual awards? I am a shoe in for best away fan or best newcomer:yahoo:

 

[wigman]

Remember those comments?

Don't come on here crying the blues about your poxy club. Dickheads like you deserve the shit you're going through and long may it continue. Now, please f*** off back to your BBS where you might find somebody who gives a shit.

Seconded!