Just finished reading Ivor's book. Excellent and well worth getting.

Liverpool 4-0 up in Austria

No probs Bob

Wishing Detzi Kruszynski a very happy birthday today

OI ...and other 4 were chancers!

Sandy - not disagreeing with OI. Commenting on his last sentence

Wild guesswork: 10+ didn't have credible funding, 5+ wanted control of the club, ...

I was thinking of a way to word Bob's moral of 15:49, so he's saved me a job

If it was to sign Appiah we signed him in 2017 according to wiki

I remember it as to keep us in L1 as well.

Bob - OI is correct. I was on the DTB at the time the McA proposal was brought to the table, so I know this is true.

I think it was later DO, to keep us in League 1 because that would make it easier to raise finance.

Particularly as the vote has been given to every T, D & H many of whom probably have no interest in the club other than as somewhere fairly local where they can go to watch a game

The season we over-spent on the team - that was the season we went up via the Plymouth play-off?

McA withdrew when he was told the hoops he'd have had to jump through and the unlikelihood of him succeeding. At that time he'd have been overwhelmingly rejected by the membership, as Koppel and co. were still on everyone's mind. The last survey the DT did still put fan ownership as the key issue and I expect with the correct wording, they could probably get the same result again.

"Beginning to think that we should have just taken D-Mac's offer all those years ago" - IIRC, we didn't even get the chance to say Yay or Nay to that.

Sutton fans seem to think is was P’boro

Naz, it wasn't misconduct because he asked the board if he could do it and the board said okay (not specifically about Appiah). It honestly wasn't quite as lunatic as it seemed in retrospect, but it did leave not enough financial wiggle room in the event of things going wrong (and then they went wrong).

After all his marvellous philanthropic work for the club, Erik (allegedly) moving NPL money to Nil to (allegedly) buy Appiah (how great he turned out) in my view was serious misconduct. I have no idea what financial and governance systems were in place but the stadium money should've been ring fenced.

Wonder which league one team wanted the sutton united manager?

..or for older fans - the Three Stooges!

I seem to recall a group known as the 3 amigos trying to wheedle their way in, not so long ago.

Is that because you feel the lunatics have taken over the asylum?

and I still prefer "Fun Boy Three" to "3 Wise Men"

If my memory is correct it was around the time (may be the exact the time) that the club told members that it had overspent on the playing budget by using funds set aside for New Plough Lane. I think that at the same time they announced that there was a consortium who wanted to invest in or buy the club to plug the finance gap. But they never said who the people were. I can't remember whether they actually expected members to vote on a deal without that information. Can't quite remember how it ended but I seem to remember that it was when the chaps started the Plough Lane Bond as the only viable alternative to having to sell the club.