: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:05 am  

Mintball wrote:

Well, hopefully they won't go bust, eh? Imagine how embarrassing that must be for a team when that happens to their shirt sponsor? Mind, I'm sure they'd be able to find yet another US insurance company to fill the slot – let's hope they're more financially responsible than the last lot, eh?

Like First Advice when they went tits up? LOL indeed.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:06 am  

Billy Banter wrote:

And also 'Federation'. Will Citeh not be restricting their player search to planet Earth? A couple of Klingon centre backs would be handy, and a crafty Vulcan midfielder.

Guess it depends whether they can be convinced that it's an interesting 'project'.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:11 am  

Conroy wrote:

It's the only bit of joy I get when I visit OT.

Diddums. I feel for you, I really do.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:26 am  

Ian [77] wrote:

Like First Advice when they went tits up? LOL indeed.

was that the business that went bankrupt mid season? leaving city high and dry and unpaid?

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:14 am  

Karlos13 wrote: Also translates as United: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball ... p?a=154391 Hope the 50 pieces of silver were worth it. You'd think that, if shirt sponsorship is selling oneself for "50 pieces of silver", United fans would not be taking the pîss out of other clubs for their sponsorship. Unless they're a bunch of hypocrites, that is, with their reliance on foreign finance companies.

Karlos13 wrote: Also translates as United: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball ... p?a=154391 Hope the 50 pieces of silver were worth it. You'd think that, if shirt sponsorship is selling oneself for "50 pieces of silver", United fans would not be taking the pîss out of other clubs for their sponsorship. Unless they're a bunch of hypocrites, that is, with their reliance on foreign finance companies.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:27 pm  

United sign Diouf... Fergie has also said that "new signing " Owen Hargreaves is due to return in September. Oh, and we won't be going to Indonesia now after the hotel we were due to stay in got bombed, Glazer's pockets must be crying.

United sign Diouf... Fergie has also said that "new signing " Owen Hargreaves is due to return in September. Oh, and we won't be going to Indonesia now after the hotel we were due to stay in got bombed, Glazer's pockets must be crying.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:31 pm  

Nemanja wrote: Oh, and we won't be going to Indonesia now after the hotel we were due to stay in got [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8155154.stm]bombed, Glazer's pockets must be crying. Same as on the news this morning. Sod the fact 9 people have lost their lives, Man Utd have had to cancel a football match and wont get the profits.

Nemanja wrote: Oh, and we won't be going to Indonesia now after the hotel we were due to stay in got [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8155154.stm]bombed, Glazer's pockets must be crying. Same as on the news this morning. Sod the fact 9 people have lost their lives, Man Utd have had to cancel a football match and wont get the profits.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:34 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

Same as on the news this morning. Sod the fact 9 people have lost their lives, Man Utd have had to cancel a football match and wont get the profits.

It's the 'British angle'. Certain news organisations have always done it: they report an international story only when they can find a British angle.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:37 pm  

Mintball wrote:

It's the 'British angle'. Certain news organisations have always done it: they report an international story only when they can find a British angle.

Fair enough cover it in the report, but don't give it as the lead angle.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:53 pm  

Nemanja wrote: United sign Diouf... I could spit...

Nemanja wrote: United sign Diouf... I could spit...