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Is this how Gordon Taylor made his money...
PFA Charity given "official warning" over mismanagement (P4)
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So many hands in the pie that what else could have been hand out than the warning
after the Fifa/uefa corruption and blatter and platini walked away innocent speaks volumes how bent football is
Gordon Taylor was a crook and what did he really do for football and its players to earn the big wages he got
after the Fifa/uefa corruption and blatter and platini walked away innocent speaks volumes how bent football is
Gordon Taylor was a crook and what did he really do for football and its players to earn the big wages he got
Selling off the family silver?
I was very surprised to learn today that perhaps L.S Lowry's most famous work, and arguably the most iconic football related painting of all time, is up for auction next month at Christie's.
L.S. Lowry painted, Going to the Match in 1953, as his entry to the first Football And Fine Arts competition. It was a joint winner and Lowry was given £250 in prize money.
In 1999 the painting achieved a then record Lowry price when sold at Christie's. It was aquired by its current owners, the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), the union for current and former players, who paid £1.9m for it (more than four times the estimate).
Gordon Taylor, then chief executive of the PFA, said it was “quite simply the finest football painting ever.” It would be the PFA’s “prized possession”, he added.
The stadium in the painting is Burnden Park, the former home (now demolished) of Bolton Wanderers, close to Lowry’s home in Pendlebury.
On the 19th October the painting will once again find a new owner(s) when sold by Christie's in their Modern British and Irish sale. The pre-sale estimate is £5-8m and is very likely to smash the current Lowry auction record of 5.6m which was achieved by two separate works by the great man, The Football Match and later, Picadilly Circus.
A spokesperson for the Players Foundation said: “We are very proud that we have been able to make sure the British public have had the opportunity to enjoy such a wonderful piece of footballing memorabilia and art.
“The Players Foundation no longer has any income guaranteed, so we have had to completely reposition the charity. The trustees recognise the current financial crisis means we need all the income we can obtain, and all our assets have to work for us to ensure our ongoing work.
“We want to continue to provide, amongst other things, benevolent grants to those in real financial need, and assist people with dementia. This has led us to the inevitable decision that the Lowry has to be sold in the interests of our beneficiaries.”
I hope it stays in the UK and is still available for the public to see. The risk is that it ends up disappearing overseas...
I was very surprised to learn today that perhaps L.S Lowry's most famous work, and arguably the most iconic football related painting of all time, is up for auction next month at Christie's.
L.S. Lowry painted, Going to the Match in 1953, as his entry to the first Football And Fine Arts competition. It was a joint winner and Lowry was given £250 in prize money.
In 1999 the painting achieved a then record Lowry price when sold at Christie's. It was aquired by its current owners, the Professional Footballers Association (PFA), the union for current and former players, who paid £1.9m for it (more than four times the estimate).
Gordon Taylor, then chief executive of the PFA, said it was “quite simply the finest football painting ever.” It would be the PFA’s “prized possession”, he added.
The stadium in the painting is Burnden Park, the former home (now demolished) of Bolton Wanderers, close to Lowry’s home in Pendlebury.
On the 19th October the painting will once again find a new owner(s) when sold by Christie's in their Modern British and Irish sale. The pre-sale estimate is £5-8m and is very likely to smash the current Lowry auction record of 5.6m which was achieved by two separate works by the great man, The Football Match and later, Picadilly Circus.
A spokesperson for the Players Foundation said: “We are very proud that we have been able to make sure the British public have had the opportunity to enjoy such a wonderful piece of footballing memorabilia and art.
“The Players Foundation no longer has any income guaranteed, so we have had to completely reposition the charity. The trustees recognise the current financial crisis means we need all the income we can obtain, and all our assets have to work for us to ensure our ongoing work.
“We want to continue to provide, amongst other things, benevolent grants to those in real financial need, and assist people with dementia. This has led us to the inevitable decision that the Lowry has to be sold in the interests of our beneficiaries.”
I hope it stays in the UK and is still available for the public to see. The risk is that it ends up disappearing overseas...
remember arthur mann
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Tapping up City ?
www.theguardian.com
Save Lowryâs Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor
Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it disappearing into private collection
www.theguardian.com
give it to gordon
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Tapping up City ?
Save Lowryâs Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor
Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it disappearing into private collection
Do we know why the pfa are selling it ? Cant be skint surly
They give the reason in two posts up from your's.
“The Players Foundation no longer has any income guaranteed, so we have had to completely reposition the charity. The trustees recognise the current financial crisis means we need all the income we can obtain, and all our assets have to work for us to ensure our ongoing work.
“We want to continue to provide, amongst other things, benevolent grants to those in real financial need, and assist people with dementia. This has led us to the inevitable decision that the Lowry has to be sold in the interests of our beneficiaries.”
LongsightM13
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Went to see it at Manchester Art Gallery on Mosley Street a few years ago. Magnificent and painted by a blue.Tapping up City ?
Save Lowryâs Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor
Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it disappearing into private collection
Shiekh Mansour bought the original FA Cup trophy that City won in 1904, and also allegedly bought Maradona’s hand of god shirt recently, so wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was interested. If only from a smart investment point of view, it will probably go for 3/4 times what the PFA paid
So do the players still have a players union that they pay sub's into and all clubs a rep ?