fourth place on 2m for cahill and 450k on m.bent
derby were and have been vastly under prepared.
The only way they could have prepared would have been to sell out to a new investor which is scant reward for gaining promotion
as for the top four sucking the life out of the game, its capitalism. we werent complaining as the mersey millionaires. its just that the best time to capitalize so far is now with the beyond obscene amounts of cash and the depths of sleaze it allows acccess too, never before dreamed of let alone reached.
Because its capitalism it does not make it right. We got the tag as Mersey millionaires based on bank assurances given by John Moores and an initial capital loan of about £70,000, hence millionaires was something of an overstatement at that time. His type of backing wouldn't cover half time catering at the game now.
wenger has battled on a budget, dodgy as ************** (belgium feeder club allowing arfican nationals to qualify for european passport in 12 months and arsenal making payments to the club for no apparent reason) but besides them, who else has played the game?
keegan with a decent purse at toon
blackburn on steel millions
leeds on fresh air
With the exception of Newcastle, who relied totally on Sir John Halls wealth very few
sport is cyclical, peaks and troughs, we were great a few times, and then dropped a level or two, its being able to take advantage at those points -
Sorry Suits I would say was cyclical, we are the only team outside the bent four to have won the cup since the Prem started. We had the timerity to break into the top four, the media lampooned us for it, remember 'You're havin a larf', money has shrunk the cyclical cycle to virtually four teams for major success and that is not healthy, it is a kabul.
- it is in my opinion why spurs have suffered, fifth place on the last day in a derby due to a dodgy lasagne. thats got to tell.
we suffered in a similar fashion, [Poor language removed] over by italys top referee (in the season italian football went through the corruption debacle coupled with the uefa rules that were changed allowing the inbreds a free ticket into the competition + us miraculously drawing semi finalists to be villareal)
we went how many games without a win? 9? we won at bolton, cahill - 1-0... diouf hit the bar. anyway. injustices are felt by the team and the manager and the fans.
the everton way, the honest and fair way. no divine right to win every time, just the will, fight, and skill to beat any side on the day.
Agreed in full I want us to be the ones to break this media ideal, this invention of invincibility, it never existed before the Prem started and it is having, imo, a detrimental effact of the future well being of our game.
