fran_villa Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Lidl shares have soared as a result of that picture, lets hope that there is a new Lidl where their club shop is in Brum very soon! they should build a lidl on the feckin club full stop,never mind just the shop... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 13, 2008 Moderator Share Posted May 13, 2008 Lidl shares have soared as a result of that picture, lets hope that there is a new Lidl where their club shop is in Brum very soon! Unlike shares in Blues after their MD cried on TV and said he was desperate to sell!!! You couldn't write it could you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fran_villa Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Lidl shares have soared as a result of that picture, lets hope that there is a new Lidl where their club shop is in Brum very soon! Unlike shares in Blues after their MD cried on TV and said he was desperate to sell!!! You couldn't write it could you. its so small time isn't it,i have seen sunday league teams run better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrissmith921 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 Lidl shares have soared as a result of that picture, lets hope that there is a new Lidl where their club shop is in Brum very soon! Unlike shares in Blues after their MD cried on TV and said he was desperate to sell!!! You couldn't write it could you. To be fair if I knew I could have sold months ago to some Chinese guy for a much bigger price than I could get now, I'd probably cry too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 I thought Yeung never had enough money? Seriously though, who on gods earth would pay 100 million to own a club like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 13, 2008 Moderator Share Posted May 13, 2008 Lidl shares have soared as a result of that picture, lets hope that there is a new Lidl where their club shop is in Brum very soon! Unlike shares in Blues after their MD cried on TV and said he was desperate to sell!!! You couldn't write it could you. To be fair if I knew I could have sold months ago to some Chinese guy for a much bigger price than I could get now, I'd probably cry too. But on TV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 apprently poron dwarf and quad have kissed and made up awwwwwwwwww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 14, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2008 Anyone got a source for this article? THE SEASON ended with me clutching a young boy, frightened and tearful because of the sickening abuse being screamed at his father by a few dozen people in front of the St Andrew’s directors’ box. This wasn’t an expression of football passion, it was an outpouring of hatred more to do with what was going through stupid heads than anything on a pitch. There is no excuse for relegation rage in such a form. “Ignore them,” I said to Blues plc chairman David Sullivan whose son, David Jnr, had just rushed to a refuge inside the stand. Fortunately his other boy, Jack, is too young to realise what was going on. It wasn’t as if all the noise came from regular fans. One of them unleashed a stream of filth at Blackburn chief executive John Williams thinking he was Sullivan. I couldn’t quite raise a smile. I remembered nine months ago we were back in the Premier League, full of hope and ambition. Now it was not so much despair as disillusion at so much that happened, right through from a failed takeover to the loss of manager Steve Bruce and then, desperately, relegation for the second time in three years. David Sullivan’s reaction was hot and from the heart. He’d had enough, he said. Club chairman David Gold, more in control of his emotions, wondered aloud whether he should remain in the chair. Me? I knew they would soon cool down and start thinking about the future and, sure enough, they’re already talking of promotion next season. Twice before, under Steve and Barry Fry, we’ve gone down and bounced back up. It helps to think that in 15 years we have transformed Birmingham City from a collection of sheds and a clueless team into a club with the potential to carry the second city’s name with pride. And I’m not giving up 15 years of my career just because a batch of beery blokes can’t control their tongues. I remember Wolves lost an outstanding manager, Graham Taylor, because his then- chairman couldn’t take stick from a few loudmouths. We will not be driven away by such people. No, it’s time to think positively and that means Alex McLeish will remain our manager with the promise that he need not sell any player he wishes to keep. We are already planning to offer Sebastian Larsson a new contract and James McFadden is also staying. Relegation has cost us about £25million but Alex will also have money to buy one or two players for key positions. Some supporters pulled down one crossbar after we had beaten Blackburn on Sunday, probably on the basis they could. However, the broken bar was symbolic for me. It represented the fracture that has grown between board and fans. I have no doubt where the fault-line occurred. We allowed ourselves to believe Carson Yeung’s takeover would be completed with little pain last December. The man from Hong Kong appeared to be a Chinese billionaire but turned out to be merely a wealthy poser. By the time we knew it, he had paid £15m for a 29.9 per cent stake in Blues but couldn’t find the rest. Legally, we were not allowed to make a contract without his agreement and it happened that Steve was campaigning for one and wouldn’t wait. David Sullivan did the honourable thing and told Steve that if he was badly unsettled he could go. OK, so Wigan paid us £3m compensation but I can tell you honestly we would have preferred him to stay. Mind you, we had just lost six games out of seven and there were plenty of fans who let us know that we should sack Steve. He still has a grudge that we didn’t let him keep all his £300,000 image rights — we took back £100,000 — so we’re not offended that he hasn’t sent us a get-well-soon card. Alex had a thankless task to do in a hurry before the transfer window and I knew as soon as we managed only to draw at home to Derby it was going to be touch and go this season. The two Davids have been badly wronged by the fans. A mistake was made over Yeung but it was done on the understanding he had the key to expansion into Asian markets. We are not alone in this. Are the old Liverpool board happy about selling to the Texans? It’s one of the odder sides of football that if it isn’t the manager getting it in the neck, it’s the board. Our players have remained committed to the last kick but I don’t think they risk being heckled at our end-of- season dinner. We do. Now we all have a job to do next season before becoming a permanent fixture in the Premier League. As TV presenter Eamonn Holmes e-mailed me yesterday: “Muhammad Ali said ‘It’s not about taking the punches that knock you down, it’s what you do when you get up again’.” Meanwhile, this chart from the LSE says it all, don't it? Sullivan is trying to get someone to buy his shares at 60... fat chance of that, IMO. Yeung's stake is somewhat underwater as well (I've heard 10m pounds down the drain on that "investment"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted May 14, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2008 And the replies to the Karren Brady article are hilarious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 This thread will run forever :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 It helps to think that in 15 years we have transformed Birmingham City from a collection of sheds and a clueless team into a club with the potential to carry the second city’s name with pride. we carry the name of the city biatch so dont forget that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 14, 2008 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2008 THE SEASON ended with me clutching a young boyI think this should be reported to the police. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenjos Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Just read that Blues board. they think that the new stadium is still on!!!!! :wow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 14, 2008 Moderator Share Posted May 14, 2008 Karen Brady just days after they get relegated makes sure that McLeish knows the Blues board are firmly behind him with this little gem of a quote. OK, so Wigan paid us £3m compensation but I can tell you honestly we would have preferred him to stay. Is it just me or does anyone else think this thread could run for at least the entire summer and quite easily the duration of next season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunRickyRun Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I noticed Sullivan has apologised to Queudrue for naming him. What about poor old Pornodwarf on Tom Ross now trying to make out that 26,500 against us was 'almost a sell out' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villafan306 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 "It's all f's and c's and w's, and things like that, which I don't need in my life. On the contrary Porndwarf, you've made a very good living out of them !! Post of the century!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 14, 2008 Moderator Share Posted May 14, 2008 I noticed Sullivan has apologised to Queudrue for naming him. What about poor old Pornodwarf on Tom Ross now trying to make out that 26,500 against us was 'almost a sell out' You mean this chap; Kingston response to Sullivan Birmingham goalkeeper Richard Kingson has hit back at Blues co-owner David Sullivan following his scacthing criticism of him. Sullivan launched a stinging attack on some of the club's signings last summer blaming them for the club's relegation from the Premier League. Kingson was singled out along with Franck Queudrue by Sullivan as one of the players who has failed to shine and he labelled the Ghana international 'a complete waste of space.' The 29-year-old admitted he was extremely hurt by the criticism from Sullivan which he feels is very unfair. "I'm sad over the wholly unjustified and unfair comments," Kingson told The Sun. "Even an animal does not deserve to be described as a 'waste of space'. How can he say that when I've not even met him. "What makes this even more painful is I nearly lost my life in September when I was knocked unconscious against Blackburn - trying to protect the honour of this club. "To get this insult is a slap in the face." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 "Even an animal does not deserve to be described as a 'waste of space'. How can he say that when I've not even met him. "What makes this even more painful is I nearly lost my life in September when I was knocked unconscious against Blackburn - trying to protect the honour of this club. "To get this insult is a slap in the face." Clearly he is still affected by the collision! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted May 14, 2008 Moderator Share Posted May 14, 2008 Pornodwarf on Tom Ross now trying to make out that 26,500 against us was 'almost a sell out' Well it was almost a sell out, the same as they almost stayed up. :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I'm intrigued to see that they refer to themselves as knuckledraggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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