John Matrix Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Club of the week 2002: Rash spending puts Leicester into administration owing £30m, resulting in write-offs including £6m in unpaid tax and £4,415 owed to the St John Ambulance. Last week: Sven-Goran Eriksson spends £14.2m, including £4.5m on Jermaine Beckford. Last year's bottom line for Leicester: a £7.5m loss. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/03/said-and-done-carson-yeung
Chazwaz Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Shows how much times can change, exciting times for our club but not so much for others. Edit: I am not agreeing with this article just suggesting how much money talks in the world.
John Matrix Posted 4 September 2011 Author Posted 4 September 2011 i don't think the article is meant as a positive.
Jimmy Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 so The Guardian is so far up its own arse I'm surprised they even lower themselves to talk about football
Shrenchel Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Shows how much times can change, exciting times for our club but not so much for others. Shows how fvck all changes and people have very short memories, whatever helps you sleep at night though mate.
John Matrix Posted 4 September 2011 Author Posted 4 September 2011 so The Guardian is so far up its own arse I'm surprised they even lower themselves to talk about football the guardians football coverage is very good in my opinion. great articles daily.
cc_star Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 So says The Guardian which avoided £80m of UK tax by setting up an offshore company to sell off Autotrader from the Guardian Group, which continues syphon money off over to avoid tax, whilst picking up on other companies for doing the same the biggest bunch of hypocritical bastards there is, I'm not even going to give them the hit by clicking on the link
LoughboroughFox Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 and £4,415 owed to the St John Ambulance.http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/03/said-and-done-carson-yeung bastards!
accessory Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 So says The Guardian which avoided £80m of UK tax by setting up an offshore company to sell off Autotrader from the Guardian Group, which continues syphon money off over to avoid tax, whilst picking up on other companies for doing the same the biggest bunch of hypocritical bastards there is, I'm not even going to give them the hit by clicking on the link This. Such sanctimonious crap explains why the paper sells only 300000 copies a day, even though many millions more support the liberal/left-wing views it purports to endorse.
Jimmy Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 This. Such sanctimonious crap explains why the paper sells only 300000 copies a day, even though many millions more support the liberal/left-wing views it purports to endorse. its easily the smallest seller of the major titles in Leicester I can tell you that
Alexikokopops Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Wow, some people in this thread are rather touchy. It's a fair observation. so The Guardian is so far up its own arse I'm surprised they even lower themselves to talk about football I actually find it has the best football coverage of all the papers, supplemented by the delight that is the Football Weekly podcast.
Jimmy Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Wow, some people in this thread are rather touchy. It's a fair observation. I actually find it has the best football coverage of all the papers, supplemented by the delight that is the Football Weekly podcast. I was talking more generally not specifically to their football coverage
THEFATBASTARD Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Im lighting my cigar with a fifty pound note, and giggling our way into administration....
Bert Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 If the Guardian were so great, they'd have got the Beckford transfer fee right at the very least.
Shrenchel Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 How can anyone get so riled up by a 3 line paragraph containing exclusively hard facts. Pussies.
Jimmy Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 they're not facts as the fees were undisclosed so at best its an educated guess
MC Prussian Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 It's just another way of toying around with facts. It's called juxtaposition. The numbers aren't precise (and/or the text isn't accurate enough), so with an educated guess I'd say it's merely a two-liner for entertainment value's sake.
John Matrix Posted 4 September 2011 Author Posted 4 September 2011 I'm not even going to give them the hit by clicking on the link i'm sure they'll be devastated to read this
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Beckford cost £2.5m according to Everton.
FoxyPV Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 The Guardian's coverage of football outside the PL is average at best, however I think their news et al coverage and analysis is top notch. Toynbee is a bit if a pain in the arse though.
sdb Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 If the Guardian were so great, they'd have got the Beckford transfer fee right at the very least. Yeah that's top of their agenda, a second tier transfer fee! I find The Guardian by far the best for football coverage, as well as the most reliable when concerning transfers. What they've written about us here (a couple of sentences ffs!) is unfortunately accurate, however you look at it. As for it's relevantly poor sales (which mean f*** all when The Sun and Mail dominate readership stats), it gets millions of hits online everyday, and wins plenty of awards. If that weren't enough...Football Weekly. Now stop being so petty half of you.
Alexikokopops Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 The Guardian's coverage of football outside the PL is average at best, however I think their news et al coverage and analysis is top notch. Toynbee is a bit if a pain in the arse though. That's true, but they remedy that in part with the football blogging network (of which our very own Fez is member)
cc_star Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 Yeah that's top of their agenda, a second tier transfer fee! I find The Guardian by far the best for football coverage, as well as the most reliable when concerning transfers. What they've written about us here (a couple of sentences ffs!) is unfortunately accurate, however you look at it. As for it's relevantly poor sales (which mean f*** all when The Sun and Mail dominate readership stats), it gets millions of hits online everyday, and wins plenty of awards. If that weren't enough...Football Weekly. Now stop being so petty half of you. My comment wasn't being petty, I just take offence at their holier than thou attitude which filters into 100% of their output, which is hypocritical in the extreme as they carry out all the activities they pick up others for doing in their many exposeès Insinuating we've avoided tax (which essentially we did) whilst they themselves use the Cayman Islands to actively avoid UK tax. Hypocritical bastards seeing as they got months of copy out of a whole host of UK companies for doing that Their footy coverage away from the Premier League is amongst the weakest compared to Sun & Times etc
Guest Bilo Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 The Independent > The Guardian >>>>>>>>>>> Redtops
Libertine Dream Posted 4 September 2011 Posted 4 September 2011 The thing is last time we weren't being bankrolled by a very successful 4billion pound company! Last time we spent money that wasn't there, the way the club is owned means that KP is liable for any debts incurred under their stewardship, hence why theyre willing to use the company to pay for it in the first place! We do have to thank the people that got us out of administration. I know the main money man at the time who did it cos he loved the club, but never got the recognition that others got!
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