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Latest Takeover Rumour. The Moores / Noell one

Are you For or Against the idea of the possible Moores / Noell takeover ?

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Not sure if Im allowed to post pics off twitter but the jist of it is he is pictured with a couple of 'waitresses' in a Hooters type bar, then also sat next to them at the match.
Kopites going crazy about whether or not they paid for their tickets !
 
bullensboy said:
Not sure if Im allowed to post pics off twitter but the jist of it is he is pictured with a couple of 'waitresses' in a Hooters type bar, then also sat next to them at the match.
Kopites going crazy about whether or not they paid for their tickets !
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Usually ok, but in the Liverpool thread mate. Didnt realise I had wandered into this one.

Soz.
 
Regarding takeovers, the Peter Lim acquisition of Valencia was seen over here as the dawning of a new age.Sadly it's not looking like the one the supporters here would have wished for.Whoever if anyone ever puts up the money to buy us,I'll be crossing everything that can safely anatomically be crossed, that the new owners have the vision and money to give us what we all wish for.
 

Charlie Sweet said:
This. Can't turn the clock back and pretend Michael Foot and the Labour Party are in with a chance of defeating Maggie Thatcher. The war is over. It's a free for all capitalist society. If a working class man can't afford to take his two kids to the match then he either needs to re-train and start trading equities in the City or pick one of the kids as a favourite and introduce the other to crosswords.
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I'm sorry to go off topic a bit, but you are so dead wrong about economy here. This is not free-market capitalism. That doesn't exist anywhere. In an earlier post, you said that it would be ridiculous to regulate international trade with a price ceiling. Each nation regulates every exchange done over its borders, whether that be price floors (agricultural goods), ceilings (pharmaceuticals) or tariffs, exchanges rates; even worker movement is strictly regulated by visa-type. The system that you are trying to describe is not capitalism, it is corporatism. The idea that a mean worker can compete with corporate interests in football (or any big market) is no longer realistic to assume. The economic inertia of large firms and their interests have driven prices near the limit of the purchasing power of individuals; that is a legitimate gripe of many. Football, particularly, is a game (as most sports are) of the middle and working classes. Football, without widespread support from middle and low income fans, would have never grown to be appealing to own as a business or a rich person's plaything.

It's fine if you want to continue to think that large groups of people being priced out of football tickets is due to their personal ineptitude, lack of skill, drive, dedication, etc. The assumptions of Thatcher (similar to the American conservatives) are horrendously incorrect. Failing to acknowledge the effects of systemic economic influences on the outcomes of individuals does not make them non-existent. The neo-conservatives lost the economic argument about de-regulation, personal responsibility and corporate freedom when the markets across the globe tanked after 30 years of pursuing their ideas.
 
UpperLeftBlue said:
I'm sorry to go off topic a bit, but you are so dead wrong about economy here. This is not free-market capitalism. That doesn't exist anywhere. In an earlier post, you said that it would be ridiculous to regulate international trade with a price ceiling. Each nation regulates every exchange done over its borders, whether that be price floors (agricultural goods), ceilings (pharmaceuticals) or tariffs, exchanges rates; even worker movement is strictly regulated by visa-type. The system that you are trying to describe is not capitalism, it is corporatism. The idea that a mean worker can compete with corporate interests in football (or any big market) is no longer realistic to assume. The economic inertia of large firms and their interests have driven prices near the limit of the purchasing power of individuals; that is a legitimate gripe of many. Football, particularly, is a game (as most sports are) of the middle and working classes. Football, without widespread support from middle and low income fans, would have never grown to be appealing to own as a business or a rich person's plaything.

It's fine if you want to continue to think that large groups of people being priced out of football tickets is due to their personal ineptitude, lack of skill, drive, dedication, etc. The assumptions of Thatcher (similar to the American conservatives) are horrendously incorrect. Failing to acknowledge the effects of systemic economic influences on the outcomes of individuals does not make them non-existent. The neo-conservatives lost the economic argument about de-regulation, personal responsibility and corporate freedom when the markets across the globe tanked after 30 years of pursuing their ideas.
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In short it's not a Workingmans game anymore!
 
Lowste said:
You sure

Happy to be corrected
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Here mate. They're turd throwing hypocrites.

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Lowste said:
Football for the working class went out of the window years ago, it is all built around corporate and these package deals you can get.
In Liverpools case the club know there will always be somebody or a company that will buy the tickets, I have little sympathy with Liverpool fans as they have sold their soul to the highest bidder on two occasions so sometimes this is how the devil pays you back...
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Don't see how the Liverpool fans have sold their soul, after all we will not get a vote on the new American takeover. Also if supporters organise and show their disapproval by boycotting Sky or football matches I think they would soon see how much they need the fans, or we could take your attitude and doff our cap and accept what we are given.
 

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