Club growing lots - less personal. PB: Club work hard to retain direct dialogue with fans. Do lots of fans forums, keep all Withdean-era events going - Easter open day, Young Seagulls Christmas party, AITC very entrenched in community. Inevitable with the club the size it is now, there's going...
Lita and Obika - director of football brings players in and then Oscar doesn't play them.
PB: OG has final say on all player recruitment. All clubs have a similar relationship with director of football (or similar) and coach/manager.
Transport again - we're a football club, we don't run buses or trains. We've put together the best transport plan of any football club in the country. We subsidise transport - the only club in the country to do it.
Every now and again it doesn't work or something goes wrong.
Pooh-gate - wasn't in the changing room, wasn't smeared on walls. Anyone could have done it - we don't know who. Crystal Palace's manager made the most of it.
Nike deal - worth a lot more than the last deal. Questioned how much - "is it millions?". PB dealt with these as you'd expect.
PB said shirts will be on sale in the early Summer and will cost more than the £40 Errea shirt but are substantially better quality.
Never listened to this show before but the presenter, Neil Pringle I think, is giving PB quite a tough time on a few points. So far...
1. Post-match transport - he asked PB if he'd tried it himself, PB said he hadn't and NP said something like "Well you should, it's not pleasant."
2. Expanding...