Arsenal News » Campbell, Vela, Cesc, lies: its “Ask a stupid question day”

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Carlos Vela going to Xerez?

September 28 is Ask a Stupid Question Day (honest, put it in Google and see).  So I’m just quoting from yesterday’s papers.

You may not have heard about Xerez, or indeed may assume that they are a form of 2D photocopier sponsored footballers, as indeed did I until I watched them put up a “plucky” display against Real Mad on TV last week.  (Ronaldododododo scored after 3 seconds).  They are in the first division in Spain for the first time ever, and given the way they play probably the last time ever.

But on Sunday lots of news sites started running this story (the actual text below comes from Yahoo’s sports news, but it is identical to Sky and most of the others.)

You will recall that Notts County was a team which was rescued by the fans who took over the club, raised a small fortune to pay off debts, and ran it well.

Then they were persuaded to give all their shares away.  Give is the key here.  And give to very rich people indeed.  No reason has ever been given as to why they had to give the shares away rather than sell, but they agreed.   They gave them to… well who exactly?

No one knows because the company behind the deal remains secret.  The League apparently has been given some data, but no one else has, and the club still hasn’t been told that the owners have passed the laughable fit and proper person test.

And maybe they won’t because now we find that Russell King, the leading man that we know about in Qadbak, who seem to be the shady characters who own the oldest league club in the world has had £1.9m of his assets frozen by the financial court in Jersey over an unpaid debt.

Meanwhile Sven of the Eriksson has acknowledged that part of the deal that took him to Notts C is that he has to work for Swiss Commodity Holding AG, as well as Notts.  And would you know it, Sol Campbell was told that as part of his job he had to work for SCH as well.

But for this deal to work Swiss Commodity Holding AG has to be floated on the stock market so that everyone who owns shares (Sol, Sven etc) can make a fortune overnight.

It was supposed to happen in June – July at the latest.  But… oh my what a surprise.  It didn’t.

Now here’s a funny thing.  The Jersey court was told that Russel King was part of a company called Belgravia which tried to buy Newcastle U before going bust.  Mr King denies he was involved in any way other than as an investor.

And today a spokesbeing has cleared it all up by giving the names of two Indian families who supposed own a bit of a company that owns a bit of a company that someone else owns and which might own a bit of Notts County.  And then they suggest that this makes everything all right.

And here we are again.  I don’t really know about Carlos, or Sol and of course I don’t know what the hell is going on with Notts County, but as sure as anything it can’t be dismissed by running nasty stories about the state of Sol Campbell’s mind.

What connects such stories with Carlos Vela and Cesc?   There is one thing.  It too is rather nasty, but one has to mention it sometimes.

Football Journalism.

Except of course that I found some of these bits (such as the stuff about what happened in Jersey) in a paper.  Written by journalists.

Rather buggers up my argument that.   Ah well, just go and enjoy “ask a stupid question day”.

(c) Tony Attwood 2009.