You say we have the 6th largest income in the premier league. Then you say we`ve punched well above our weight in the last 5 seasons ! Errrm` no, not really. In the last 5 seasons we have finished between 4th and 6th. So at best, punching ever so slightly above our weight, or round about where we should have expected to be. Also, under ENIC, we have never finished above above Woolwich. Never. Not once. Let me say that again. In 15 years or so of Levy and ENIC we have never finished above a woolwich side who themselves have been quite average. This has never happened since world war fucking two. Yes we are a selling club. You right about that. In fact, under ENIC we are used as a player trading facility rather than a football club. Why people still feel the need to come on here and defend them amazes me. Their catalogue of shamefulness is endless. From the Berbatov / Frazer Campbell fiasco to the Emirates ticket allocation surrender to the highest ticket price to watch second rate players sham to stub hub.............. You say we are not a massive club. We are a big club with a massive fan base though that deserve so much better than what ENIC are prepared to deliver.
Scholar nearly killed us, but we did finish above arse. Although I am not on one side or the other ENIC took over in 2001. By that time the PL took effect in 92, the CL had been established in 93 .
By the time ENIC took over Arse were already established top 4 side, and have only finished outside the top 4 3 x since the EPL's inception. 4 years before ENIC took over Arsehole were looking at relocating and it began in 2002...a year after ENIC took control. So, why in the 90's were we not thinking ahead?
Who else has managed to break the top 4 monopoly without a massive injection of cash from a rich benefactor? Only Spurs.
If you want to blame anyone blame the Scholar era, the inception of EPL and Sky ( which Sugar championed) the CL or even Sugar as he couldn't establish us as top 4 club, when it was easier, from 92 -2001. You would have thought with a man on the inside of the EPL's TV sale we would have fared better.
From 1970 -1992 we finished in the top 4 6 times. 6 times in 22 years when it didn't mean anything.
What I am saying is we have a 36,000 capacity stadium mate. How do you think we have the 6th largest income with the 11th highest capacity?
That Bill Kenwright is the fucking devil too.
We cannot have it both ways.
We slag off Chavs and City, yet we all want to be like them. A business is not going to throw money away. So do we really want a benefactor? ENIC out, but who do we want to take control?
We need a bigger home, but nobody wanted to move from N17 when there was not really any option to do otherwise.
We forget if it wasn't for SO19 and the following riot we would never have got any cooperation.
I have my differences with ENIC. However, if we were still at Chigwell ( and i did not see the 2 owners before ENIC sorting that out) we would not have a chance of attracting, producing top players.
My point is when you look at the bigger picture it could be far worse. We could be Tottenham Dragons and playing in Red.