gaddafi wants to buy palace

[dougdeep]

Evil scum supports Palace.

No change there then.

 

[trueblue]

Surely this can't go ahead?

We're talking here about a backward society led for years by a mad dictator; A society ostracised by everyone and out of step with the modern world. Until recently there'd been precious little hope for the future and all we ever got to see of them were those crazed, bug-eyed lunatics on the occasional news item with their demented wailing and chanting.

Still - maybe once Gaddafi gets used to Simon Jordan and the Palace fans, it might work out....

 

[The Orange Seagull]

In Archer and Stanley we had two directors who are worth over a billion, and look where that got us

Yes its true,those two were complete wasters but its a sad fact (now that football is big business) unless we see 'millionaire/billionaire invests in.....' in the same newspaper paragraph as 'Brighton & Hove Albion' the Albion will NEVER be a Premiership football club......thats the reality!

 

[Seagull73]

Yes its true,those two were complete wasters but its a sad fact (now that football is big business) unless we see 'millionaire/billionaire invests in.....' in the same newspaper paragraph as 'Brighton & Hove Albion' the Albion will NEVER be a Premiership football club......thats the reality!

What a load of tosh. Charlton Athletic anybody?

Something that seems to have been overlooked here. If Gaddaffi is serious about opening his arms out to the world and being all 'hey, look at how great I am now being', wouldn't the millions that he would invest in Palace be better off going towards the people that he is supposed to be helping, i.e the Libyan people?

 

[Tommy Cook reporting]

Surely time for Attilla to update hs very fine & funny album track (from a decade or so ago) 'Libyan Students From Hell'.

 

[mitch]

one b52 went to bomb went to the palace
one b52 and a cargo bay full of bombs went to bomb the palace

 

[Ernest]

Why shouldn't they have a dictator run their club ? We have one

 

[Hunting 784561]

Wouldnt like to be in a Palace player's boots if they ever had the misfortune to lose under Gadaffi Duck.

Remember what happened when Columbia got knocked out of the World Cup ?

 

[itszamora]

To the tune of "the greatest team the world has ever seen":

'And it's Colonel Gaddafi,
Oh he smells of wee,
So he'll fit in perfectly,
At Crystal Palace FC'

Seroiously though, he is an evil man who I'm sure no fans (no, not even Palace ones) would want running their club (or country for that matter) no matter how much money he may bring to the table

 

[London Irish]

Surely this can't go ahead?

We're talking here about a backward society led for years by a mad dictator; A society ostracised by everyone and out of step with the modern world. Until recently there'd been precious little hope for the future and all we ever got to see of them were those crazed, bug-eyed lunatics on the occasional news item with their demented wailing and chanting.

Still - maybe once Gaddafi gets used to Simon Jordan and the Palace fans, it might work out....

 

[London Irish]

I wonder whether this will really happen or fizzle out like the Thai interest in Liverpool?

I also question how Brighton supporters (especially those who want millions invested in the club) would react if it were us?

Well, this is one of those classic "welcome to the reality of modern world geo-politics" moments.

Because Gadaffi has been sucking up big time to Bush and Blair for quite some time now, he has been crossed off the list of "evil dictators" ages ago and reassigned to the list called "dictators who it is necessary to support in the interests of regional stability and harmony in the world energy markets".

Bit tough for your average Daily Mail/Sun reader to keep up with I know, all this realpolitik, and I feel sorry for them if their heads hurt as they try to comprehend Gadaffi's rehabilitation.

I take a close interest in examining US/UK government hypocrisy, and Libya dropped off the list of countries "requiring regime change" years ago compiled by the likes of influential Washington Bush-backers like the Project for the New American Century.

It proves to me that if Saddam had rolled over on his back and dangled his four legs in the air like Gadaffi has done in the 1990s, Saddam too would have emerged as one of our Middle East "regional allies" once again (as he was in the 1980s) and everyone would have forgotten about that unfortunate little business about genociding a few Kurds.

Imagine that had happened, maybe Uday Hussain, who was, like Gadaffi, another football-loving tyrant made very rich on the back of nicking his fellow countryman's oil money, well, maybe Uday would also have been sniffing around looking for another English club on the rise to invest in.

The Saddam Hussain stand at Falmer might well have happened if history had taken a different course - the situation at Palace proves that to me.

 

[Easy 10]

Surely this can't go ahead?

We're talking here about a backward society led for years by a mad dictator; A society ostracised by everyone and out of step with the modern world. Until recently there'd been precious little hope for the future and all we ever got to see of them were those crazed, bug-eyed lunatics on the occasional news item with their demented wailing and chanting.

Still - maybe once Gaddafi gets used to Simon Jordan and the Palace fans, it might work out....

superb.

Gaddaffi apparently has no interest in football himself. His son, however, has played for Perugia (for all of 15 minutes before the coach realised how appalling he was and hauled him off). The liklihood is that Gaddaffi would buy the club and turn it over to his son Al- Saadi to run as his own personal plaything - kind of like buying your son a train set for his birthday.

This sounds wonderful.

 

[mona]

It's the summer silly season for the press...yawn...yawn
So many of the journos are back slapping cockneys that suburban CPFC are an ideal target for them to pick on. If we ever get in the Prem (ha-ha) we'll have the same.
yawn ...silly season journos more s**t faced than usual.

 

[Vlad the Impala]

The 36-year-old millionaire said: "I have achieved what I set out to do. I don't enjoy football any more.''

Let's get this straight. He set out to lose his love of football. So he bought Palarse.

Makes sense, I suppose.

 

[clapham_gull]

I can see it all now first game of the season.

Libyan opposition movements camped outside Selhurst proclaiming the theft of state funds, rigged elections and support for terrorists.

.. then Paul Samrah turns up and tries to sneak in a Falmer For All Banner.

 

[clapham_gull]

What if they draw Lockerbie in the cup ?

Ian Dowie on Football Focus claiming that the CIA did it...

(is that in bad taste?)

 

[Robot Chicken]

The voting on the Palarse board makes interesting reading...

 

[Vlad the Impala]

Would be funny, in a sad sort of way.

But Gaddafi has denied it all now anyway. Apparently the Gaddafi that wants to buy the club is the bloke that sells the sheep's eyeballs in the Sainsbury's at Selhurst. Some bloke tipped him a fiver and he wanted to get some change.