Re: More Than One Track Per Movie?
Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 1:18 pm
Mike and everyone, sorry this has absolutely nothing to do with Stardust, but don't get me wrong; I wasn’t getting at ‘yanky’ ownership of ManU in particular, since Manchester City, our other major club, happens now to be owned by Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, who if you don't already know has also recently bought a soccer club in New York to be called NY City FC. They are setting up against the once NY/NJ Metrostars, now known as The New York Red Bulls, themselves having been acquired in 2006 by that eponymous Austrian energy-drink company. And London’s famous Chelsea FC is of course owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, whose second-largest and most expensive private yacht in the world has just recently left NY Harbour after who knows what financial wheeling & dealing. I could go on ad nauseam.
Meanwhile, having just checked the current facts, no ManU players are from the US, but 20 of their 36 salaried players are from 18 different countries round the world, leaving 16 from England, of whom just 6 are from Manchester itself.
That’s my point: that many so-called local football clubs are now just international commercial businesses, hiring and firing players and managers from anywhere, interested only to spirit cash out of punters’ pockets into theirs. It’s certainly no longer local ‘sport’ in the sense of friendly neighbourhood 'game-playing' as I used to understand it.
Ho hum,
John
Meanwhile, having just checked the current facts, no ManU players are from the US, but 20 of their 36 salaried players are from 18 different countries round the world, leaving 16 from England, of whom just 6 are from Manchester itself.
That’s my point: that many so-called local football clubs are now just international commercial businesses, hiring and firing players and managers from anywhere, interested only to spirit cash out of punters’ pockets into theirs. It’s certainly no longer local ‘sport’ in the sense of friendly neighbourhood 'game-playing' as I used to understand it.
Ho hum,
John