According to Wikipedia (which of course is never wrong) he sits on the board of the company that bought City so if that is true he is more than the public face. I would have thought he'd have to resign from that position if he wants to own Pompey. I wonder what the result would be if Pompey...
Doesn't this guy sit on the board of the Abu Dhabi United Group which bought Man City? If so I would consider that to be a conflict of interests. His Wikipedia page looks like it was written by a fan of his.
I disagree with this statement completely. You seem to be suggesting there is some sort of upper limit on the sort of crowds we can attract and this is linked to our historical highs.
Going by that logic it was pointless Reading building a 24,000 capacity stadium as they had never previously...
Omar is the man!
I started watching on BBC2, but due to impatience I have borrowed all the DVDs from a colleague. Starting season 3 last night...
Already quite possibly my favourite TV series ever.
I'd probably feel quite annoyed that Margaret Thatcher prevented councils from investing the proceeds from selling off council houses in new social housing stock thus exacerbating the problem of shortages to the level we see today.
I think FL clubs should pool resources and co-ordinate their marketing. Clubs often have family days/kids for a quid days and similar events. If there were a couple of weekends a season where every FL game had the same offers then perhaps some sort of national campaign would be to everyone's...
I count about 23 rows of seats, with 26 in each row per section and 3 sections so I make that about 1800 seats. I'd say there are at least 500 empty seats in those 3 sections so I don't think there is any reason at all to doubt the official figure.