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Well that will teach us to spend approx £10 billion on the next Olympics in London... Sadly though, I also guess this will mean loads of books and TV shows about whether the Mayans were right. Let's cut through the BS right now, thanks to ye olde Wiki: Quote:
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November 13th, 2009, 09:13 AM | #22 | |
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On this specific matter, the government are right and the EBC were wrong. But IMHO it is not the province of HM Government to manage the affairs of cricket. If they do, ultimately they will make a worse job even than the ECB. Who knows what else they will meddle with, screw up, then walk away from, leaving ordinary joes to salvage whatever they can from the mess? The British motor industry perhaps, or the steel industry...
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Right bunch of doom merchants you lot today, I know its Friday the 13th but come on cheer up the world isn't about to end you know-mind you an asteroid passed perilously close a few days ago to Earth 2012 is a load of bunkum but its nice to know that we do get to hold the Olympics before the world is destroyed-and I hear we did really well
Its simple, ban ITV from showing ANY sport at all and give football and cricket back to the BBC-they have the money now their top stars have taken a pay cut
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Just saw David Collier, senior executive of the English Cricket Board being interviewed at Lords today, saying (his words): ''We believe that the money from Sky TV represents between 40 and 50% of our income.'' If I am interpreting him correctly, he means that he doesn't actually know. Either the ECB, a huge commercial operation, doesn't prepare management accounts and cannot retrieve the breakdown of its recent income streams, or Mr Collier hasn't asked for the information, or he is being deliberately obtuse. At a time when he is meant to be arguing the ECB's financial case, being vague about the figures doesn't make good political sense. See what I mean about the ECB not being fit to manage the business affairs of a hot dog stand?
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If we truly believe that the next generation of English players are to come through this system, why have the ECB permitted so many overseas players to qualify for England? The current England side has many players who originally had aliegencies to other countries. By permitting this are the ECB temporarily filling in a gap in the upcoming talent pool, or are they just simply being cynical? I read that the Chairman of Derbyshire was saying that if Sky were not allowed to continue with their TV deal after the current one expires, then he claims that many counties would fold. Perhaps not a bad thing? |
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Driving around my hometown earlier this evening, I noticed the Christmas decorations up about a week earlier than usual, guess the store owners want too have a better Christmas after the world financial crisis hit this time last year.
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Strangely though in my town the Christmas decorations have yet to be put up - this time last year they were already up. I read in our local paper that the council (who are responsible for the decorations) have, in an attempt to save some money, decided to delay the date when the decorations are to go up. They have also decided to reduce the amount of decorations in a vain hope at cost cutting.
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