Trevor Morley's Tache
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I used to work with a guy called Jim Aird.Tres bon.
I once asked him to say his name in a French accent and he duly obliged...
Kept me amused for hours.
I used to work with a guy called Jim Aird.Tres bon.
Conn at it in The Guardian and he's got a full house and then some in the City Bingo card.
My biggest issue is that he says our owners have pumped £2.5B into the club which is not true. They have spent that amount on The City Football Group by acquiring other teams and building the infrastructure of said teams.
City have obviously been the main benefactor of the money but no one truly know
Working class football culture is hanging on by its finger nails, attacked in all directions by corporate greed and gentrification, it is misunderstood, patronised, stereotyped, ignored, seen as a problem, an unfortunate legacy of the past.
This isn't about an appreciation of classical music, this is about grafting whatever you like on football culture, because football culture is utterly debased, it's not worthy of celebration in its own right.
You know! It makes me want to stomp my feet.
Well said, mate. I couldn't agree more.Me. An ordinary working class bloke who paddled through many a piss-puddled urinal.
I enjoyed it.
You might too if you give it a chance. Or something similar.
Or not. You'll get no judgement if you don't.
All I'm saying is the arts really aren't just for people who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.
On a side note (and veering off topic) it's good to see the club supporting the arts, particularly during these times when artists are unable to perform and struggling to make ends meet.
We should all try to do the same in our own way. Take a chance on a book or a CD, go to a play when we can. Preferably something that we might not have necessarily done otherwise.
It'd be a very boring world, after all this pandemic shit settles down, if the only people whose mummies and daddies can afford to subsidies them were able to create art.
I worked part time in a gym. The managers name was Shay Toal. The staff had hours of fun on the tannoy.I used to work with a guy called Jim Aird.
I once asked him to say his name in a French accent and he duly obliged...
Kept me amused for hours.
I also worked with a guy called Chris Peacock...I worked part time in a gym. The managers name was Shay Toal. The staff had hours of fun on the tannoy.
The biggest myth is what has been ‘pumped’ in. They count every contract since the takeover as if we don‘t actually have an income stream that pays for these players, as if Sheikh Mansour pays for every player out of his own pocket, omitting that said income streams are ’pumped’ back into the club to cover costs.Conn at it in The Guardian and he's got a full house and then some in the City Bingo card.
My biggest issue is that he says our owners have pumped £2.5B into the club which is not true. They have spent that amount on The City Football Group by acquiring other teams and building the infrastructure of said teams.
City have obviously been the main benefactor of the money but no one truly knows how much they have spent solely on us.
But tell a lie long enough and people will accept it as truth
City were purchased to make the buyers a lot of money. Much is made of the investment made but a massive slug of that has already been recouped in the CFG shareholding’s sold to China and Silverlake, never mind the actual valuation of city now v pre takeover.Marvin, off course it is a soft power project irrespective of the legal structure. It is even documented as such by the likes of Gary Cook who referred to it as a proxy for Abu Dhabi. Then there is the involvement of Simon Pearce. At the time of takeover he was the head of Strategic Communications for Abu Dabhi and his job was to protect and enhance the reputation of Abu Dhabi. Khaldoon, just a mate helping out? Come off it man.
BUT there is nothing wrong with soft power. The UK do exactly the same thing. Or attempt to anyway...
I agree with your comment about the failed PR campaign.
The problem comes with the derogatory term "sportswashing" and the inference that everything we do is to hide human rights abuses. That frankly is bollocks.