Rivalry or not, the club obviously means a lot to their supporters and I won't be cheering on the financial destruction of another club by a series of shady owners (especially since something similar almost happened to us) providing it isn't one of the greedy six. It's just a shame they didn't go down through normal means because that would have been hilarious.
Mel Morris has run the club into the ground - but he must have a cracking PR team because what you hear from a lot of the Sheep fans is 'he's pumped £150m of his own money into the club'. Yeah, but have you stopped to consider why he's had to do that...?Rivalry or not, the club obviously means a lot to their supporters and I won't be cheering on the financial destruction of another club by a series of shady owners (especially since something similar almost happened to us) providing it isn't one of the greedy six. It's just a shame they didn't go down through normal means because that would have been hilarious.
I agree, I long fir the days of a local derby against The Sheep and ForestRivalry or not, the club obviously means a lot to their supporters and I won't be cheering on the financial destruction of another club by a series of shady owners (especially since something similar almost happened to us) providing it isn't one of the greedy six. It's just a shame they didn't go down through normal means because that would have been hilarious.
Were our owners at that time shady? Or merely incompetent and overwhelmed?I won't be cheering on the financial destruction of another club by a series of shady owners (especially since something similar almost happened to us)
Not mutually exclusive.Were our owners at that time shady? Or merely incompetent and overwhelmed?
Not necessarily mutually exclusive. But I don't think it applied in our case.Not mutually exclusive.
The fact that they sacked him and yet kept Lawrence and Bennett always looked a bit unfair on him, no matter how much they were all twats for being involved in it.Richard Keogh awarded £2.3m in breach of contract case against Derby
Richard Keogh has secured a payout of about £2.3m from Derby after winning his long-running compensation claim against the clubwww.theguardian.com
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