Shinawatra in the South Stand.

[mat]

Biggest televised match in premier league history and toxic just happened to turn up. Are there some elections due in Thailand..?

 

[PragueBlue]

Biggest televised match in premier league history and toxic just happened to turn up. Are there some elections due in Thailand..?

Doesn't need publicity for elections. His younger sister is the current Prime Minister.

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

Biggest televised match in premier league history and toxic just happened to turn up. Are there some elections due in Thailand..?

Doesn't need publicity for elections. His younger sister is the current Prime Minister.

does that mean he's safe now?

 

[Freestyler]

Couldn't believe my eyes, heard rumours he was coming. Thought nothing of it..

Walk down the aisle to find a bunch of people surrounding someone, i'm thinking past player/actor/celeb, but surely they would be in a box.

But no Thaksin sat 20 yards from me, surreal.

 

[blumoonrisen]

He actually went in at turnstile y in the family stand, after posing for pics he and his crew went to the front of the queue but he was the only one that got in! the rest of them walked away and must have got in somewhere else somehow.

 

[willythehippo]

And he did put a good do on in town after the match, once, That shi8e could never get away with that - Frank I don't know / care about Thailand you sold us to the Arabs -THANK YOU !

 

[JoeMercer'sWay]

And he did put a good do on in town after the match, once, That shi8e could never get away with that - Frank I don't know / care about Thailand you sold us to the Arabs -THANK YOU !

how did you get back?

 

[c-t-i-d-87]

So those ITK can they pls tell us what he did or didn't do pls

I can tell you as I was one of the people who nearly had to pick up the pieces. Despite having over $1bn in non-frozen assets, he didn't put a penny into the club and even put us into more debt. Sven approached him in December with the players he wanted to buy but TS told him he would decide who we bought and he wanted someone more glamorous (Ronaldinho I think it was)

John Wardle had to pay the staff wages out of his own pocket a couple of times. Then he sacked Sven and we had to pay the second instalment of £15m on the players Sven bought and we didn't have it. He tried to sell players behind Hughes' back to find the money but MH threatened to walk out and he had to back down.

At this point we were left with no way of paying the money and the accountants were in looking at the books. They recommended going into administration and the PL were desperately trying to get someone to put a rescue package together. However no one would touch us with a barge pole as it made far more sense to pick up the pieces afterwards. I was involved with a group preparing to do that and we looking at paying no more than £2-3m.

I'm not sure how (I think it was through a City fan that specialised in sub-prime finance) but he somehow conjured up a loan of about £25-30m from a South African bank but that involved us sacrificing Sky income for years ahead and we'd have certainly been finished within the next 12 months.

Then the Sheikh came along (and it wasn't through Thaksin as popular myth has it). In fact, not only did he not help the sale, he positively hindered it to the point where ADUG nearly walked away.

He paid £20m to buy the club, nearly ruined it and walked away with (I think) £60m. As an example of what a complete skunk he was, when he took us over, he "bought" the £20m loan the club owed to Wardle & Makin at a big discount (up to half). So W&M sacrificed a lot of money to help the sale but when ADUG came in, TS took every penny of that £20m.

<br /><br />-- Tue May 01, 2012 3:12 am --<br /><br />He's a scumbag.

Fucked City good and proper too, see above quote for reference.

 

[Daz_Blue]

So those ITK can they pls tell us what he did or didn't do pls

I can tell you as I was one of the people who nearly had to pick up the pieces. Despite having over $1bn in non-frozen assets, he didn't put a penny into the club and even put us into more debt. Sven approached him in December with the players he wanted to buy but TS told him he would decide who we bought and he wanted someone more glamorous (Ronaldinho I think it was)

John Wardle had to pay the staff wages out of his own pocket a couple of times. Then he sacked Sven and we had to pay the second instalment of £15m on the players Sven bought and we didn't have it. He tried to sell players behind Hughes' back to find the money but MH threatened to walk out and he had to back down.

At this point we were left with no way of paying the money and the accountants were in looking at the books. They recommended going into administration and the PL were desperately trying to get someone to put a rescue package together. However no one would touch us with a barge pole as it made far more sense to pick up the pieces afterwards. I was involved with a group preparing to do that and we looking at paying no more than £2-3m.

I'm not sure how (I think it was through a City fan that specialised in sub-prime finance) but he somehow conjured up a loan of about £25-30m from a South African bank but that involved us sacrificing Sky income for years ahead and we'd have certainly been finished within the next 12 months.

Then the Sheikh came along (and it wasn't through Thaksin as popular myth has it). In fact, not only did he not help the sale, he positively hindered it to the point where ADUG nearly walked away.

He paid £20m to buy the club, nearly ruined it and walked away with (I think) £60m. As an example of what a complete skunk he was, when he took us over, he "bought" the £20m loan the club owed to Wardle & Makin at a big discount (up to half). So W&M sacrificed a lot of money to help the sale but when ADUG came in, TS took every penny of that £20m.

Who gives a fuck, we have taken 6 points from the scummers and the league is in our own hands :)

 

[c-t-i-d-87]

I can tell you as I was one of the people who nearly had to pick up the pieces. Despite having over $1bn in non-frozen assets, he didn't put a penny into the club and even put us into more debt. Sven approached him in December with the players he wanted to buy but TS told him he would decide who we bought and he wanted someone more glamorous (Ronaldinho I think it was)

John Wardle had to pay the staff wages out of his own pocket a couple of times. Then he sacked Sven and we had to pay the second instalment of £15m on the players Sven bought and we didn't have it. He tried to sell players behind Hughes' back to find the money but MH threatened to walk out and he had to back down.

At this point we were left with no way of paying the money and the accountants were in looking at the books. They recommended going into administration and the PL were desperately trying to get someone to put a rescue package together. However no one would touch us with a barge pole as it made far more sense to pick up the pieces afterwards. I was involved with a group preparing to do that and we looking at paying no more than £2-3m.

I'm not sure how (I think it was through a City fan that specialised in sub-prime finance) but he somehow conjured up a loan of about £25-30m from a South African bank but that involved us sacrificing Sky income for years ahead and we'd have certainly been finished within the next 12 months.

Then the Sheikh came along (and it wasn't through Thaksin as popular myth has it). In fact, not only did he not help the sale, he positively hindered it to the point where ADUG nearly walked away.

He paid £20m to buy the club, nearly ruined it and walked away with (I think) £60m. As an example of what a complete skunk he was, when he took us over, he "bought" the £20m loan the club owed to Wardle & Makin at a big discount (up to half). So W&M sacrificed a lot of money to help the sale but when ADUG came in, TS took every penny of that £20m.

Who gives a fuck, we have taken 6 points from the scummers and the league is in our own hands :)

Simply pointing out he shouldn't get any credit for that.