Rage Online Blog
Sunday, October 20, 2002
Extraordinary, astonishing, unbelievable! Today's Observer carries a story that has surely been released early, actually intended for April 1st.
It appears that those wonderful philanthropists at the FA and the Premier League, those knights in shining armour, those benevolent benefactors of the modern game, have purely out of the goodness of their hearts selflessly offered a total of £15 million to shore up the ailing Football League clubs, with those poor souls in the First Division getting a whopping 70% of it. Of course these grants and loans are offered with no strings attached and no likelihood of any favours accruing (such as a possible reduction in the number of relegation places from the Premiership, for example).
Or maybe I'm being too harsh?
It appears that those wonderful philanthropists at the FA and the Premier League, those knights in shining armour, those benevolent benefactors of the modern game, have purely out of the goodness of their hearts selflessly offered a total of £15 million to shore up the ailing Football League clubs, with those poor souls in the First Division getting a whopping 70% of it. Of course these grants and loans are offered with no strings attached and no likelihood of any favours accruing (such as a possible reduction in the number of relegation places from the Premiership, for example).
Or maybe I'm being too harsh?
Labels: FA, philanthropy, Premier League
# posted by Martin B @ 20.10.02 
