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Article on Liverpool's Finances
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Thanks TX, that's the funniest article I've read for a very long time. Quite superb. God bless Hicks and Gillett, and long may they extend the lines of credit from RBS. 
There's some rich picking in that piece. My favourites:
Rogan Taylor - “This is what they think this is, another sports commodity, a franchise -- something that can pass from hand to hand like a cheap girl in a bar. The club is family.” (from the man who demanded £500 payment from a Norwegian tv channel for an interview about the Hillsborough disaster)
Jegsy Dodd - “They don’t seem to have the integrity which is expected to run a club like this,” said Dodd, 51, a writer and musician with the team crest tattooed on his arm. “They’re messing with people’s lives.” (well, let's face it, at his age he'd know all about how a football club can mess with people's lives)
Peter Furmedge - founder of the Liverpool Supporters Union, whose Web site says Hicks and Gillett have “dragged the name of our club through the mud.” (the same Liverpool Supporters Union that had as its season ending party highpoint a rendition of a song with the chorus punctuated with "MUNICH, MUNICH!!!").
...and last, but definitely not least....
Peter Kilfoyle - “These guys have added no value to the club and are expecting to walk away with a 200 million to 300 million-pound profit,” he said. “As a socialist I think that’s outrageous.” (from the man who climbed into bed with Tesco to leverage out of his own contituency the city's other football institution, a man so principled he demonstrates his opposition to New labour's neo-liberal policies by sticking around for 12 years to continue dipping his snout in the trough of Parliamentary expenses, a man who acted as a witchfinder general for the Party's leadership to root out left wingers in his constituency party).
Then you're asked why you're a cynic.
There's some rich picking in that piece. My favourites:
Rogan Taylor - “This is what they think this is, another sports commodity, a franchise -- something that can pass from hand to hand like a cheap girl in a bar. The club is family.” (from the man who demanded £500 payment from a Norwegian tv channel for an interview about the Hillsborough disaster)
Jegsy Dodd - “They don’t seem to have the integrity which is expected to run a club like this,” said Dodd, 51, a writer and musician with the team crest tattooed on his arm. “They’re messing with people’s lives.” (well, let's face it, at his age he'd know all about how a football club can mess with people's lives)
Peter Furmedge - founder of the Liverpool Supporters Union, whose Web site says Hicks and Gillett have “dragged the name of our club through the mud.” (the same Liverpool Supporters Union that had as its season ending party highpoint a rendition of a song with the chorus punctuated with "MUNICH, MUNICH!!!").
...and last, but definitely not least....
Peter Kilfoyle - “These guys have added no value to the club and are expecting to walk away with a 200 million to 300 million-pound profit,” he said. “As a socialist I think that’s outrageous.” (from the man who climbed into bed with Tesco to leverage out of his own contituency the city's other football institution, a man so principled he demonstrates his opposition to New labour's neo-liberal policies by sticking around for 12 years to continue dipping his snout in the trough of Parliamentary expenses, a man who acted as a witchfinder general for the Party's leadership to root out left wingers in his constituency party).
Then you're asked why you're a cynic.
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