McManaman on Setanta - Stop Protesting!

[desertscouser]

An American bird writing an article about LFC

Silly cow.

[Lisburn Red]

Demonstration lasted about 30 mins.

Well done everyone.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=reMRT3sETOk

[AFII]

It won't matter whatever you send her. She is probably being paid by Hicks PR company to write that article.

[Exiled_red]

That article is pure fiction

[lfc1394]

I Still haven't forgiven him for screwing the club out of £13mil, but guess I'm just twisted.

[Assassin]

I emailed he as well with some Hicks/Corinthians stuff. If she replies I post it on here

Thanks for reading and taking the time to email.

I understand your frustration. The point of the column is people here have put up with way worse for way longer.

All the best,

Jen

FWST




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To: Floyd, Jennifer
Subject: Hicks: In defense of Hicks, as a soccer owner, he is not that bad


Jen



It would appear you have not done your home work, maybe you like to write something a little more balanced, please read the attached:



Garry



Quote:
There are other examples: a contract between Bank of America and Vasco da Gama was intended to cover twenty five years but lasted only two. Worst of all, perhaps, is the case of the Hicks group. This group is a hedge fund based in Texas and linked to President George W. Bush. Hicks took over two teams, Corinthians and Cruzeiro, through contracts that should have run until the year two thousand and ten.

These deals included promises of construction of new stadiums. Hicks also bought forty nine percent of the traffic television network and dreamed up its own ultimate soccer business: Hicks teams facing each other in matches broadcast, naturally, by Hicks. Hicks set up a cable channel in Latin America, PSN, acquired national basketball association rights, formula one races and soccer championships at overblown prices. Hicks invested about five hundred million dollars and in only two years filed for bankruptcy.


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Carlos Roberto de Mello, Corinthians' vice president for finances, says Hicks, Muse waited too long to reinvest the profits from the trades. "That hurt Corinthians' performance and irritated fans used to a better playing team," he says. He warns that the strategy may cut into future team profits if Hicks, Muse doesn't get busy building the team up again.

But Hicks, Muse's Pan-American Sports Teams President Richard Law defends the decisions. "The reality of any sports franchise is that teams go through cycles as players mature," he says. "Our job is not to turn back the inevitable, but to build Corinthians and Cruzeiro up from the junior ranks," referring to the teams' 16- to 20-year-old players.


Quote:
As part of a separate deal, Hicks, Muse plans to build the club a new training center in early 2001 and a new 45,000-seat stadium in the next few years.


Quote:
Meanwhile, the free flow of capital has resulted in foreigners investing in football clubs, often with disastrous consequences, such as when the American buyout firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst bought Corinthians, Sao Paulo’s leading club.

Corinthians won the World Cup championships in 2000, but the club’s performance subsequently slumped and a political row ensued as fans began to protest about everything from player trades to changes in the colour of jerseys. Hicks, Muse exited three years later, following a row with its local partner.

[Alpha]

I wrote to her too:

Hi Jennifer,

I just read your piece on Tom Hicks.

I'm don't know if you are writing with a PR agenda for Mr Hicks or if your article was poorly researched but either way, I thought you should know that it is not only the Liverpool fans who want Mr Hicks out, it is also the Liverpool board. That includes his partner and co-owner, George Gillett, who's name is conspicuously absent from any recent statements by Mr Hicks.

I don't agree with the content of your piece but I do think it was nicely written so for that, congratulations.

Best Wishes,

a (sober) Liverpool fan

and she replied:

Thanks for reading and taking the time to email.

First things first, I was kidding about the whole drinking thing. I truly feel bad if y'all were offended. But, really, almost everybody I have heard from has been nice. Passionate and angry but nice. And I love having sports arguments from a distance.

I hope on my next trip to Europe to be able to see a Liverpool game ... er match.

All the best,

Jen

FWST

[tomasjj]

I wrote to her too:



and she replied:

nicely written?

Haha..you were trying to get a look in.

[Alpha]

nicely written?

Haha..you were trying to get a look in.

I didn't think I'd get a worthwhile response if I told her what I really thought.

[tomasjj]

I didn't think I'd get a worthwhile response if I told her what I really thought.

That's just like out on the pull then.

[Alpha]

That's just like out on the pull then.

Absolutely.

Now I think about it, I admit there is no way I would have complimented her if she was male.