Tony Scully - Update

Tony Scully is still at Crawley Town. Three games into his current stop off on the conference circuit Tone is staying put.

Three full sets of ninety minutes under his belt, no goals to report. As Tony's arrival has co-incided with the new appointment of John Hollins, there has been a very visible up turn in the club's fotunes. Saturday saw them seeing off Stevenage Borough to take them into round two of the FA Trophy.

Exciting times. I'll keep you posted

Caption: Scully,during his Notts County period.

How very dare you!

For some reason I am reminded of Catherine Tate's brilliant comic invention Colin Faye – “the camp guy who is mortally offended when people assume he's gay" whenever I visit the FC United of Manchester website.

FC United was a stroke of genius taking the battle against the Double Glazers and demonstrating that the fans are bigger than the corporate greed that scars and fuels our beautiful game.

Unfortunately to the outside world they behave and act in exactly the same way Manchester United fans have done, since their team started winning things again in the 90's. As a new club, run by the fans for the fans, they are treading the same sorry money laundering steps of their alma mater.

The anitdote to all that commercial filth we fans endure, still offers home and away shirts (a 3rd strip can only be a season away) at £29. They still seek sponsorship, yet they show a sensitivity to their reviled past by drawing a line at corporate hospitality.

The hastily contrived season has not been without it's teething problems, Home opposition used only to handfuls of fans for these grass roots fayre have been forced by the league management committee into providing safe accommodation for the massed ranks of FCM away support.

Often home games have been relocated to nearby "super" stadia to manage this growing phenomena. All of which might be quite sweet if it wasn't for the "politburo-like" worded news items on the club website, demanding that everything be sorted to the satisfaction of the new non-league royalty.

"Do you know who we are?" The Moore & Co Construction Solicitors League Division 2 is fast learning to jump to a new tune.

Last Thursday saw the Manchester Evening News Job pages bristle with an interesting opportunity for every aspiring corporate wannabe. FC United (with an enticing carrot of £25,000 p.a.) are looking for their first Chief Executive. If you are looking for gainful employment at the moment follow this link. Peter Kenyon, I suspect, will not be applying but reading between the lines FCM have a "fair employment" policy (natch) and that usually means by the fairly tightly specified job spec, they already have somebody lined up internally.

I was bit surprised not to see the line - Peter Ridsdale need not apply - Newton Heath Aquatic Supplies can forget about their Christmas bonus just yet.

Harry has a nice house - latest

I forked out the £3.70 to get FREE the Rich List article that highlighted Harry Redknapp is worth £6 million.

Far from gun-running to and importing coke from latin-america "H" has a really tasty manor in a posh street in Poole, which is probably worth most of that £6 million, reading between the lines.

4-4-2 have done a lovely job in "outing" the rich and the mega rich. It's full of goodies on the rich and the filthy rich. I was particularly taken with the pen pictures drawn of Man City's resident pockets David Makin and John Wardle. Having worked for these guys in the mid 90's I have to say they are/were very interesting inidividuals, not particluarly nice but interesting nonetheless.

Perhaps I'll go on the record about their interesting attitudes to people of colour in the future, after it's gone through our legal department. Needless to say a company whose reputation and brand, that was built on it's urban clientele, was not fully supported by the dynamic duo's choice of vocabulary. Put it this way Sisoko would have been upset, Di Canio not so offended.

Flash Harry

Harry Redhnapp is worth £6 million.



Can you believe that

From where on earth can you amass that kind of money, with such a low key playing career during the mean days of football and managing clubs that historically would be described as unfashionable - adj. media term for poor.

It would very interesting to find out

Picture from Bob Dunning's excellent 70-71 Football site