
edit : beaten to it

by Royal Monk » 05 Oct 2012 08:13
by weybridgewanderer » 05 Oct 2012 08:18
by Uke » 05 Oct 2012 08:46
by watfordroyal » 05 Oct 2012 15:40
weybridgewanderer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213120/MPs-shock-BBC-tax-deals-Commons-watchdog-says-25-000-contracts-raise-suspicion-complicity-tax-avoidance.html
I think we need to hold off talking about stripping the BBC of BAFTA's, Sony Radio Awards and reviewing their position at the top of the viewing / listening charts.
Maybe its just me but these awards were all won fair and squarely on the screen or thru the speakers of a radio.
It is simply unbelievable we should be talking about punishments when we have not yet had time to handpick a firm of lawyers who have spent the vast bulk of their careers working for Rupert Murdoch and put together a formal independent investigative body comprising former ITV executive board members preferrably those previously sacked by the BBC as they would have detailed knowledge of exactly how the system works.
One area that does need investigation is the important question of dual contracts that could run back decades what with the BBC handing out lucrative TV and Radio deals to the likes of Terry Wogan. Even Wogan's No. 2 chart placing with the "Floral Dance" cannot be safe and one would hope that The Guinness Book of Hit Singles cannot stay silent on this.
Does anyone know of a BBC Tax Case blog?
by Mr Angry » 08 Oct 2012 11:57
by Deadlock » 08 Oct 2012 13:48
by Royal Monk » 08 Oct 2012 15:00
by watfordroyal » 08 Oct 2012 16:19
Royal Monk Portsmouth again ...
This is a long article but if you can be bothered to read it ( and clever enough to follow it ) then it is an amazing insight into how corrupt things were/are at Portsmuff
http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=18346
by Ian Royal » 08 Oct 2012 18:03
watfordroyalRoyal Monk Portsmouth again ...
This is a long article but if you can be bothered to read it ( and clever enough to follow it ) then it is an amazing insight into how corrupt things were/are at Portsmuff
http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/portsmouth/fb_news.php?storyid=18346
After reading all that, I'm starting to feel a bit of sympathy for the pompey fans, they are being used as a money laundering scheme.
But rather than paying more money into shady pockets, they would have been better saying f*ck em all, ditch the lot of them by boycotting and start their own new club down the pyramid.
by Alexander Litvinenko » 09 Oct 2012 14:16
The Lights Go Out At Nene Park
The twitching corpse of the club remains with us, of course. Kettering Town travel to Leamington this evening in the Southern League Premier Division, with the club having apparently given assurances that they can raise a team for this fixture. We will find out this evening whether these assurances are worth as much as the paper that they are written on this evening, although it seems unlikely that there will be too many betting websites offering prices on the match after Saturdays debacle against Bashley. It is, however, something of an overstatement to consider the fulfillment of this fixture as being some sort of “victory” for the club. To turn up for a match with eleven players and complete ninety minutes of football is the absolute bare minimum that any club should be able to manage in order to justify its existence.
As frequently happens in situations such as these, however, Kettering Town Football Club is now involved in a fire-fighting exercise, and should the blaze that might have been caused by not turning up at Leamington tonight will quickly fade from memory as another uphill battle rears it head on the horizon almost immediately. On Saturday afternoon, Kettering Town are at home against Bideford Town in a Southern League match, and the small question of how that match might go ahead after, in another act rich in the symbolism of tending to the dead or dying, the electricity at Nene Park was cut off yesterday morning after non-payment of the bill, an act which casts a shadow over whether this match can go ahead, even if manager Alan Doyle can raise a team to take to the pitch in the first place.
by Barry the bird boggler » 09 Oct 2012 14:47
by Tony Le Mesmer » 09 Oct 2012 15:42
by Royal Monk » 10 Oct 2012 21:05
by Barry the bird boggler » 12 Oct 2012 11:53
by GreaterTorontoRoyal » 12 Oct 2012 15:45
Barry the bird boggler And Truro look like they've gone. Makes me sick though that Portsmouth get to carry on and on and on and on yet in non league circles there's (rightly) no messing about.
From the This is Cornwall website......
Last-ditch attempts to save Truro City Football Club (TCFC) have failed according to the legal team handling the administration of the club.
Truro City had until 6pm this evening to come up with a £50,000 bond to enable them to stay in the Football Conference.
by Rev Algenon Stickleback H » 12 Oct 2012 16:10
by Barry the bird boggler » 13 Oct 2012 08:32
by Alexander Litvinenko » 17 Oct 2012 10:13
MANSFIELD TOWN WINDING UP PETITION CASE IS ADJOURNED FOR TRIAL
From The Chad
Mansfield Town have today won breathing space from moves to have it wound up at London's High Court. Registrar Jones adjourned the winding-up petition issued by Minotaur Assets Finance Ltd, a Matlock-based company, after lawyers for the club told him that the debt is "disputed." The judge adjourned the case to allow each side to produce evidence and a pre-trial hearing has been scheduled for seven weeks time. Had the club been compulsorily wound-up today, this would have effectively handed its affairs to an Official Receiver. His job would then have been to do his best to ensure that debts were paid off by selling any assets available and then bringing business to a close.
The club were served with a winding-up petition relating to a loan made to the club by former joint owner Andy Perry. Andy Perry - together with Steve Middleton and Andy Saunders - bought the football club from Keith Haslam in 2008 with each of the three directors injecting money into the club. It has been revealed that legal efforts are being made to recover that loan, GBP85,000, plus interest. None of the other former directors have asked for repayment of their loans.
by Mr Angry » 18 Oct 2012 21:25
by PieEater » 19 Oct 2012 09:30
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