PannickAtTheDisco
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Huntington's disease.
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Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread
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Very sad.Huntington's disease.
Kippaxpete
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No, you're right. Staveley's taken a 10% stake in the club.Thought she personally owned 10% of the club? Or have I made that up in my own mind?
Lavinda Past
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Don't be so naive.Isn’t that exactly what happened with the chap who fronted the takeover? His name escapes me, but I think he was spouting we’d sign everyone & anyone we wanted? Wasn’t he quietly removed shortly after his comments?
So whilst I don’t disagree with the sentiments of your post, there wasn’t necessarily a script or guidance regarding Cook’s comments, unless you know otherwise?
If you think that ADUG would have allowed Garry Cook to speak on their behalf without approval and guidance, you really have no idea how big business works.
We're talking about multi billionaires making a multi million deal, not Peter Swales flogging a washing machine.
ADUG represents the acceptable face of Abu Dhabi. Everything they do is 'flying the flag' for Abu Dhabi. They would have known and fully approved everything Garry Cook told the media following the takeover.
Lavinda Past
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But we did get into the funfair after... :-)20k on the speedway just shows there was fuck all to do.
I’m sure you didn’t mean to sound so condescending pal, but considering I work with a business with a £90m turnover, who are owned by an equity company worth $2b, I have a reasonable handle on certain areas of ‘big businessDon't be so naive.
If you think that ADUG would have allowed Garry Cook to speak on their behalf without approval and guidance, you really have no idea how big business works.
We're talking about multi billionaires making a multi million deal, not Peter Swales flogging a washing machine.
ADUG represents the acceptable face of Abu Dhabi. Everything they do is 'flying the flag' for Abu Dhabi. They would have known and fully approved everything Garry Cook told the media following the takeover.
One being that the CEO of my company has carte Blanche to say & do what he wants without any input from the equity company he reports into, so whilst you believe what you say to be true, which you could well be, it certainly isn’t naive or beyond the realms of possibility believe that GC was given free reign to say whatever he wanted to say
Jesus H Gabz
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The one thing I would take from rugby is referee’s stopping time, and the hooter! Our boys would take most games to a 100 mins keeping the ball looking for winner/equaliser, and it would put to bed all the manipulation from the likes of Tierneymay lads got into rugby league and agreed they all say this is not football all the time when someone gets injured.
Lavinda Past
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You keep telling yourself that.I’m sure you didn’t mean to sound so condescending pal, but considering I work with a business with a £90m turnover, who are owned by an equity company worth $2b, I have a reasonable handle on certain areas of ‘big business
One being that the CEO of my company has carte Blanche to say & do what he wants without any input from the equity company he reports into, so whilst you believe what you say to be true, which you could well be, it certainly isn’t naive or beyond the realms of possibility believe that GC was given free reign to say whatever he wanted to say
Man_City_Loyal
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It's a different world Colin.
You're more likely to see grown men nagging their kids to come to the game now.
We had few distractions when we were kids. We lived in poorly heated houses, didn't have a TV, and those who did only had two channels on a 12" screen. There was no football on other than cup finals, and watching Flash Gordon/The Lone Ranger at the local fleapit on a Saturday morning was the highlight of most weeks.
Kids have easy access to an almost infinite number of tech items, 60" TVs, wall to wall sports, films, games... use of most of which will be shared with parents.
Despite all the hype around it, actually attending a football match is nowhere near as attractive to children as playing computer games.
Having raised two sons over the last 30 years, my own experience is that only one of them still has any interest in watching football. Furthermore, very few of their old schoolfriends have any more than a passing interest in football.
My youngest lad has been a season card holder for years... at my expense. He couldn't afford one on his own money and has far more important things to spend on.
In effect, if I don't go to the games, he won't go either. When I stop, it's two seats up for grabs, as he'll most likely just watch games via TV and streams.
The thing is that kids grow out of interests quickly when something new appears. They're excited and overwhelmed when they first go to a match but that doesn't last for ever. They get fed up and distracted, no matter how much the parent tries to keep them on the game.
Kids get more mental stimulation nowadays. The excitement of a football match can't compete with fast moving computer games.
if I had a quid for every child I've seen playing on a mobile phone throughout matches, I'd be a Tunnel Club regular.
Not just kids,
Was a woman sat in front of me, who hadn't looked at the pitch once.
was texting and playing games on her mobile all game,
Lavinda Past
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Not just kids,
Was a woman sat in front of me, who hadn't looked at the pitch once.
was texting and playing games on her mobile all game,
It was the same with mums and grans knitting City scarves in the Platt Lane end during matches in the 1960s...
Am I right @Eccles Blue ? ;-)
Ladies have always been better at multi tasking than us lads.