lenred

Hahaha! Whatever. You’ve been itching for it. You only come here when there’s some kind of woe to be had. **** off back under your stone you ****

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So gutting you concede so late but we played amazingly well and Idve snapped your hand off for a draw beforehand. We never win there anyway. We are on the upward path. Onwards!

Like to see him get up in Nige’s face like he did that time at our place. My guess is that he wouldn’t!

Felt like a loss then!

Didn’t we lose that in the end?

8th of the season. Taking after their manager I guess.

There will still be plenty who will moan like buggery at the drop of the hat.

Great finish again

Get in!!

Any evidence of that? Imagine most of the people who do the things you outline couldn’t give a toss about others tax affairs tbh.

Hopefully not. But equally hope they have paid their debt or are on the way to doing so.

Didn’t think that one through did I!

If I go to the Derby away game I’ll be getting a t-shirt printed up to wear up there with ‘I AM NOT MR POPODOPOLOUS’ on it in big bold letters! ?

It’s definitely this point of view that I err towards, but there are plenty of nuances as well. He has no doubt contributed incredible amounts of money to the coffers before he left, all of which was generated from pretty much zero so I’m sure he will feel he has done his bit so to speak. But it’s definitely a shame imho that he hasn’t continued to do so.

Most definitely. And of course the large number of employees they have and have had over the years would’ve contributed big numbers as well.

I guess it takes a certain type of person to earn those numbers from scratch with certain traits as you mention elsewhere. As my dad used to say the rich ‘don’t get rich writing cheques’!

I can’t imagine paying my contributions in one hit tbh. Must be a right Bastard!

Fair enough. I imagine there will be plenty who agree. I think there are a hell of a lot of factors to consider when you reach that level of wealth. I get wound up enough about how my measly contributions are spent for example, let alone if you were contributing tens of millions.

Firstly, this is not meant as a personal attack on Lansdown but just a point of interest. The Times’ top 50 highest UK tax contributors list has just come out and Peter Hargreaves from Hargreaves Lansdown sits at number 17 having personally contributed £65.8m to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs last year from a personal wealth of £2.4billion. Denise Coates who leads the list - Stoke City’s owner contributed a mammoth £480 million in tax to the UK’s coffers this year alone. Lansdown has been a resident in Guernsey since 2013 and thus has saved himself hundreds of millions in tax contributions. We always get told he spends extortionate amounts on our club, which compared to the man on the street he does of course, but even if he is in for over £100m at the moment, this pales into significance in what he has saved in tax alone over the last few years, and of course he will get some of of both all of his investment back some day. I’m not a fan of people living in tax havens I must admit and I have been a lot colder towards SL since is move to The Channel Islands, but it’s his life and his money and he can do as he chooses - he’s not breaking any laws. His and Hargreaves’ company and their employees will of course also have contributed vast amounts to the country’s kitty and SL uses that as a counter argument, but still I’d like to think if I were him I’d have paid my way in the UK. I’d have rather he contributed to the UK economy even if it meant less money invested in City tbh - I’d be prouder of our club’s owner. What are peoples thoughts on a slow Friday afternoon?! What would you have done given the choice? How do you feel seeing those amounts paid into the UK economy by others in a similar position to SL?

Don’t like Winter that much tbf, but Barney Ronay is incredible. As is David Walsh. If you like cricket Gideon Haigh and Mike Atherton are fantastic. But great journalism/writing does stand out like a sore thumb these days, not the other way around.

Great work Mr Fevs!

Would need to do some reading up as I was still in single digits when he was around! But he definitely owned Oxford at some point so wouldn’t surprise me.

A vile man by all accounts. Some of his kin don’t seem much better either…but that’s a different story for a different thread!

Wtf?! My mate sent me a WhatsApp this morning saying there were reports doing the rounds about this and I told him he’s delusional! Where on earth does this come from? So random it’s actually a touch worrying…..