I got nicked outside a pub Portman Road dressed as Elvis in his Vegas years, thankfully it never got to court as my response when the said arrest had taken place was “ You can’t nick me, I’m the King of Rock N Roll”, which might not have appealed to the sense of humour of the magistrates. 🙈
In 97/98 the weeks I didn‘t make it up to the Garden of England, I did some work for what was then the Hampshire Latest Magazine, ended up down at Fratton a couple of times and it was clear El Tel was having at least some but not necessarily everyone’s trousers down.
Interviewed an Aussie...
I think it grinds with both them and Southampton fans that it’s all about the long game, and after all of our struggles we are now the biggest club on the South coast but a country mile, and have the stadium, fanbase, infrastructure and British ownership to be there for the foreseeable future.
To be fair BO or not, he was very supportive in our dark times, even recall him coming to the Goldstone to a game to show his solidarity.
As for PFC themselves is this footballing Karma?
At times it was almost airbrushed out, Milan Mandaric was more than just a ‘football fan’, he was...
I did a Q and A, which lasted over an hour, with him at Worthing Rugby Club for the RAF benelovent fund and he was excellent. Maybe the hirer asked him to do the management stuff?
As it turned out JC I went and have to say you were bang on, not for me and clearly a ‘21st century’ fad to depict historical American figures in the hip hop genre.
Off to see Dirty Dancing next, let’s hope Baby’s not identifying as something else? 😂
I once met one of the former owners of the Palace Pier at a function, we got on to the subject of staff, he made no bones about predominately employing foreign staff ( long before Brexit was in the OED) in the bars and on the rides for a simple reason, local staff ie Brightonians, often gave...
Thanks mate, I wonder what Mr 0898‘s cut was from the £180k?😂
Things must have moved quickly with the monies, that was 1980,I seem to recall reading, probably Shoot, that Liverpool’s deal with Hitachi in 1979 was a flat £100,000, so clearly once one club put their toe in the water it all...
Just a thought, where‘s the Official Supporter‘s Club in all this?
Do they still exist?
Given we get 30,000 every home game what are their membership numbers?
El Pres is that right that prior to their ‘inverted’ US backed takeover for a time Burnley were in the top 20 list of richest football clubs in the world as they were effectively debt free, were then in the EPL and qualified for the £150 million every season?