Ambitious Blackburn

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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:33 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:This is not a piss-take?
No its their genuine official site and a genuine press release they have put out there.
Big Sam suing for compo, d'you think?
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Gary the Enfield » Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:59 pm

Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:This is not a piss-take?
No its their genuine official site and a genuine press release they have put out there.
Big Sam suing for compo, d'you think?

If he is he's just won his case.

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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:10 pm

Gary the Enfield wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:This is not a piss-take?
No its their genuine official site and a genuine press release they have put out there.
Big Sam suing for compo, d'you think?

If he is he's just won his case.
Abso-bloody-lutely. Keano hung drawn and quartered.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by bobo the clown » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:12 pm

Gary the Enfield wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/sa ... 84505.aspx

This, now this, on the official Blackburn website is priceless.

Could they be any more embarrassing?

If you are at work, please be careful as it may cause you to spontaneously burst out in laughter. I did, but thankfully I have my own office!
:shock: Jesus H. Christ!
Yeah ..... you have your own office ???? :shock: :shock:
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by bobo the clown » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:14 pm

More 'on topic' ... I know how people can get pissed about this .... I read last week that he won £200k damages and, I'm guessing, a written apology was part of the settlement.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:14 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/sa ... 84505.aspx

This, now this, on the official Blackburn website is priceless.

Could they be any more embarrassing?

If you are at work, please be careful as it may cause you to spontaneously burst out in laughter. I did, but thankfully I have my own office!
:shock: Jesus H. Christ!
Yeah ..... you have your own office ???? :shock: :shock:
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:16 pm

bobo the clown wrote:More 'on topic' ... I know how people can get pissed about this .... I read last week that he won £200k damages and, I'm guessing, a written apology was part of the settlement.
So not only suing for compo, but winning it magnificently too. Well done Big Sam, screw the feckers for every penny.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by BWFC_Insane » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:25 pm

bobo the clown wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/sa ... 84505.aspx

This, now this, on the official Blackburn website is priceless.

Could they be any more embarrassing?

If you are at work, please be careful as it may cause you to spontaneously burst out in laughter. I did, but thankfully I have my own office!
:shock: Jesus H. Christ!
Yeah ..... you have your own office ???? :shock: :shock:
Yeah, why not?

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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by bobo the clown » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:31 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:
bobo the clown wrote:
Gary the Enfield wrote:
BWFC_Insane wrote:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/sa ... 84505.aspx

This, now this, on the official Blackburn website is priceless.

Could they be any more embarrassing?

If you are at work, please be careful as it may cause you to spontaneously burst out in laughter. I did, but thankfully I have my own office!
:shock: Jesus H. Christ!
Yeah ..... you have your own office ???? :shock: :shock:
Yeah, why not?
it was a joke !
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by mummywhycantieatcrayons » Tue Jan 08, 2013 1:50 pm

So Allardyce does know how to sue after all. The action against the BBC and Panorama never did materialise, did it?
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by jaffka » Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:57 pm

I think that the message should be copied and put on here in case it ever disappears:
During the summer of 2011, Mr Steve Kean was this Club’s manager and accompanied the players of Blackburn Rovers on a pre-season tour of the Far East.

Whilst in Hong Kong, Mr Kean was in a bar and falsely alleged that Sam Allardyce, our previous manager, was sacked by us because he was a crook.

This is completely false and we apologise to Mr Allardyce for the embarrassment and distress caused to him by Mr Kean.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by bwfcdan94 » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:19 pm

BWFC_Insane wrote:http://www.rovers.co.uk/news/article/sa ... 84505.aspx

This, now this, on the official Blackburn website is priceless.

Could they be any more embarrassing?

If you are at work, please be careful as it may cause you to spontaneously burst out in laughter. I did, but thankfully I have my own office!
god thank you so much for finding that and thank you to everyone who helped create the possiblility of such an article being produced, Keano :D .
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Harry Genshaw » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:33 pm

They've asked Blackpool for permission to talk to Appleton. WTF? :lol: :conf:
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by clapton is god » Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:07 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:They've asked Blackpool for permission to talk to Appleton. WTF? :lol: :conf:
Good grief! He's hardly set the league on fire in the last few weeks!

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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Athers » Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:09 pm

Didn't they want an "experienced coach"?

making it up as he goes along is the lad Singh.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by boltonboris » Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:11 pm

Not sure he'll take it. But I believe he's a bit gutted that he didn't wait it out a little longer before Blackpool. Their chairman is a nutjob and a typical old skool tight arse. He wants things set up there that are so basic you wouldn't believe they don't have them. Oyston wont even entertain their ideas.

The set up was more advanced at Pompey even at the start of the season.
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Athers » Wed Jan 09, 2013 11:52 pm

Yeah their Prem wage budget was ridiculously tight wasn't it? Surely because of that tight control on costs they're doing OK financially, the way you describe makes it sound like they don't have hot showers!

Funny really as many a successful businessman has been an old skool tight arse then forgot all that the day they walked into football, Oyston sounds like the exception to the point it's harmful?!
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Prufrock » Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:28 am

What sort of things are we talking, Boris?
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:11 am

Can someone explain this obsession with Michael Appleton that chairmen seem to have? :conf:
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Re: Ambitious Blackburn

Post by ChrisC » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:11 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:Can someone explain this obsession with Michael Appleton that chairmen seem to have? :conf:
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