It’s a surprise that Tottenham get sponsored by anybody at all then. Is that how it works?
I assume Coutts and NAT West wouldn't debank him :). I'm still miffed about what happened to the 7s\6d in my Yorkshire Penny Bank account I had at school.I actually remembered correctly :)
He was alleged to have stolen €300,000 from Cayman Islands-based Caledonian Bank, though he denied any wrongdoing and stated that he challenged the bank in order to show "how the Cayman Islands are largely used for tax evasion and to launder money".[7] He reached an out-of-court settlement with the Caledonian Bank in 2014 and has since refused to comment further on the incident, citing a non-disclosure agreement.[11]
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Edit: from memory again I think the bank was later closed down as they were being used for money laundering. Just as well as no PL teams use a Caymans Isle bank as it would look very dodgy indeed.
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If Nick rang the Samaritans, I suspect that the Samaritans would need to ring the Samaritans after the call had ended.
A thef and a Blackmailer..
'A thef'? Is that like a cross between a 'thief' and a 'chef'?! Mind, probably like you down the years, I've been in many a supposed 'top' restaurant and got the bill at the end thinking 'that's daylight robbery!' Might be onto something with a new word definition! I mean, I was once in one London eatery and the final bill included 10% on top for 'Ambience'..!'
It's kind of incredible that him more than most were naming the things that City were promising in this article: branding and redeveloping one of Europe's fastest growing cities, Etihad on the tram map in a city that then looked poised to add thousands of people with a huge international student population, a new academy stadium for the then promised women's team that people smarter than the average Talksport caller knew was a huge potential growth market. I've said it over and over here: sports sponsorship is a grubby business, but that deal looked fair value when you looked at it in 2011 and it looks like exceptional value in 2024. Biggest arena in Europe all get off at the Etihad campus. Ancoats a model in post-industrial regeneration and Etihad and City group central to it. There will be five new independent pubs and a couple of nice street food places around "Etihad campus" before the decade, and people from all over the world will be seeing the world's biggest pop stars there. I'm sure the social capital and links were central to getting the deal done, but Etihad knew our owners were not fucking about as was a generally held view then. "Holistic" was a joke to the press then, it isn't now, is it.