Our money has gone to Iceland
Oct. 10th, 2008 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
undyingkingSo apparently the govt is planning to seize the assets of Icelandic companies in the UK, to compensate the various local authorities, charities, etc who stand to lose something like a billion quid. Could make the Cod War look like a skirmish!
Of more immediate interest though: do the assets to be seized include West Ham United? If so, we could become the first nationalized football team. I think West Ham are ideally suited to being the British Leyland of the Premier League -- we already have the ovemanning, featherbed wages and endemic sicknote culture.
Or maybe, as the club has been known for so long as "the academy of football", like an academy school we'll be floated off in some sort of PFI deal whereby secretive and cranky businessfolk put in a token amount of money and exercise arbitrary and whimsical control, with local people providing the bulk of the cash but with no say over how it's run. Oh, hold on, that's actually the way football clubs work already, isn't it? Carry on, nothing more to see here.
Of more immediate interest though: do the assets to be seized include West Ham United? If so, we could become the first nationalized football team. I think West Ham are ideally suited to being the British Leyland of the Premier League -- we already have the ovemanning, featherbed wages and endemic sicknote culture.
Or maybe, as the club has been known for so long as "the academy of football", like an academy school we'll be floated off in some sort of PFI deal whereby secretive and cranky businessfolk put in a token amount of money and exercise arbitrary and whimsical control, with local people providing the bulk of the cash but with no say over how it's run. Oh, hold on, that's actually the way football clubs work already, isn't it? Carry on, nothing more to see here.
