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Doc Lynam

I hate the Daily Mail
Jun 19, 2011
7,211
Outside of the blow up Seagull he also gives a good review of Raj Parker book SPORTSLAW


This is a book for anyone who wants to know how to deal with any sporting legal case without using common sense, or indeed any shred of decency or humanity.

Written with the kind of arrogance that only Mr Parker can possibly summon up and continue to retain a straight face for nine years and counting.

An example of some of his best work to date, includes such gems as:
"Wimbledon FC's links or roots in its community are of a nature that can be and are agreed should be retained by WFC and Milton Keynes SC, albeit in a new location."
the total lack of irony and self-awareness while putting his hand to the comment:
"Infinitely more harm would be caused to football if Wimbledon FC went out of
business. Everyone would suffer, most of all Wimbledon FC's true fans. It would be
replaced in Football League Division 1 by a different team altogether."
and the timelessly wrong:
"Furthermore, resurrecting the Club from its ashes as, say, 'Wimbledon Town'
is, with respect to those supporters who would rather that happened so that they could
go back to the position the Club started in 113 years ago, not in the wider interests of
football. "

Mr Parker seems so proud of his record in sports law, that not only has he written a book about how amazingly clever and wise he thinks he is, that he crows about it on his law firm's website:
"He specialises in general commercial...dispute resolution... and sports areas.
He has handled all types of contentious and regulatory issues in the.... reconstruction and insolvency, sport and media sectors."

Fortunately it doesn't tell you how well he's done at these things. But the trail of destruction he has left behind as regards Wimbledon's football club is plain for all to see.

Is Mr Parker still under the spell of Peter Winkelman's "infectious enthusiasm", as his report described the chairman of the swiftly rebranded 'MK Dons'?
It's hard to know, because he doesn't respond to any attempts to contact him.
Maybe he's just plain busy putting other sports teams to the sword with his own infectiously enthusiastic brand of "mediation".
 


Seagull on the wing

New member
Sep 22, 2010
7,458
Hailsham
the price is going up lol - good reviews too :

Having pulled the package from the envelope, I tore at the plastic wrapping unleashing the heady fumes of sealed plastic into the tight air of my living room. Perhaps, if I realised then what I know now, I might have stopped and put the accursed thing back in its envelope. But I was intoxicated with joy at the thought of the funny little seagull and how much it would look at home, hanging from my ceiling. And so, I inflated it...
Things went well for the first day or two. It dangled quite serenely from a corner of the ceiling; catching the occasional waft of fresh air from the open window.
I couldn't have been happier.
However, slowly but surely, over the next few days, something crept over me, like a frail shroud of fear.
It started innocuously enough - the glimpse of the seagull's plastic skin, turning slowly as I enter the room and flick on the light. A movement when there is no breeze to form it. Then, the eyes. Those once-so-welcoming orbs, which now seemed to stare at me, caught in the corner of my eye as I watch television. Never blinking. Only staring. Silent. Judging me.
It has been over a week now.
I want to take the seagull down. I need to. But something stops me.
Once, I was scared to enter the room. Now I am afraid to leave it.
What strange, mesmeric power does this thing hold over me?
Why does it stare so?
Why am I so powerless against it?
My body feels more drained with every passing moment.
I know it will come for me soon. Swoop down from that accursed corner of the ceiling which it inhabits. Feed on me as I sleep. Pluck out my eyeballs with two simple stabs of that orange beak. But I must rest soon.
I am tired. So tired. But I cannot close my eyes, nor turn my back for one second on this fiendish thing.....
Like that....
 


Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,869
Guiseley
They do sell these in the club shop... Feck knows how much for though... I've ordered a couple (via the NSC link).
 




Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
50,242
Goldstone
Amazon review:
"When I bought this superb Seagull, I called it Leo and it hung proudly in my front window. My neighbour's inflatable eagle that he calls Glenn, immediately deflated and was never seen again. I can only conclude that Seagull Leo is far better quality than Eagle Glenn. "

People reading this review are going to have no idea :lol:
 










Whim

New member
Sep 19, 2012
67
We have a real Eagle. They have inflatable seagulls...

Damn, if only this city had real seagulls. It would really add depth to our CrAzY nickname.
 






TWOCHOICEStom

Well-known member
Sep 22, 2007
10,623
Brighton
But.. it's got BLUE AND RED on it!!!!

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robynsdad

New member
Jan 29, 2012
153
Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ;5685859 said:
Are people ordering these for Friday or Monday? I'm not going on Friday, but if people are getting them for Monday, I'll get some for then!

I ordered ours and only going on Monday (not for lack of trying for Friday). Ours hasn't arrived yet but is already called Jake.
I wasn't going to but pretty pink fairy assured me it was the right thing to do :facepalm:
 






W.C.

New member
Oct 31, 2011
4,927
"I actually think Brighton should be applauded on managing to represent everything wrong with the modern game. Well done them"

Just wow.

Indeed.

Having not grown up with the rivalry for a long time Palace were more a pantomime villain for me; got to hate them, I support Brighton.

That's changed.
 


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