Entries Tagged as ‘financial’

February 18, 2009

Extraordinary! It’s deja vu all over again

In anticipation of their UEFA game vs citeh, Stale Solbakken, manager of  FC Copenhagen, declared the following:
The amounts of money that have been mentioned are incredible. I think that such incredible sums will take part in destroying football. They are creating too big a mental distance between what we call reality and then Manchester City.
Warming [...]

February 16, 2009

Glenn Hoddle Academy

The always excellent United Youth site has an article about a former Red, Christy Fagan, and his call up to the Republic of Ireland’s Under-21 side.
It’s always great to keep track of former Reds, however minor or trivial their contribution to the history of the Club.
Re. the United Youth article, it seems to me that [...]

January 16, 2009

A bit of philosophy today

This is an example of a syllogism:

£100 million transfer fee for a football player (Major premise)
A salary of £500,000 per week for a human being (Minor premise)
The Apocalypse is upon us (Conclusion)

(OK, so it’s not really an example of a syllogism, but it’s kinda funny)