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  1. Gritt23

    [Albion] Its Tony Blooms Blue & White Army

    Your hibernation during the Hyypia season was very wise. I'm being churlish, of course. That blip aside, it has been a truly astonishing rise under his stewardship. The club, and everything about it (apart from the name and kit) is barely recognisable.
  2. Gritt23

    [Albion] Its Tony Blooms Blue & White Army

    Was this when we were writing cheques of £100 and £250 to save the club? I doubt it, as the reason we didn't get the "names on seats at Falmer" as we were promised at the time was because Bloom wasn't party to that decision. That £2m must have come much later, I'd have thought.
  3. Gritt23

    [Albion] Its Tony Blooms Blue & White Army

    Reality at the time was that football clubs were a collection of reasonably wealthy men, and if the wealthiest of them wanted more control, he would seem the best person to be in control, because he was the wealthiest. In fairness to ray, who could have imagined what Archer had in mind? It...
  4. Gritt23

    [Albion] Its Tony Blooms Blue & White Army

    It doesn't really. I've read that before. Not deliberately mischief making, I genuinely don't know. There was talk about him selling an online betting company at some point, but I genuinely haven't ever seen what that was, or when it was sold. Always feels like he was suddenly rich about the...
  5. Gritt23

    [Albion] Its Tony Blooms Blue & White Army

    When did Tony become extremely wealthy? I take it, it was after the days when we were having a whip round for the manager to be able to actually BUY a player. And after we were written to asking for money, any money to Save Our Seagulls. £100 for a letter of thanks, or £250 for our name to be...
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