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With corporate I guess we are already there. You would hope sales started to ramp up a bit now as we get closer to the game as they have been slow to this point. There are still things like official travel arrangements to be confirmed, so perhaps people are waiting for that. Edit: I should...

Being sent out next week apparently.

I'm not sure any of this matters. We sang it long before West Ham, but so what. Motherwell sing it, apparently inspired by that video of ours that went viral a few years back. Songs are copied, it matters not.

Not that it matters, but did they sing it first? I first heard it at a city game in about 1985.

Did you do it online or over the phone? Trying to get one for a family member online and they're not listed.

No, match packages still not on sale for some reason.

I don't think anyone is saying it is OK, they're simply saying how and why it is. A footballer earning 200K per week is also paying around 75K per week in tax. So the Government subsidy (I suspect you mean tax credits) is ultimately paid for by the wealthiest, given that 90% of tax revenue...

Standard right wing theory of pay? Behave, there's no such thing. Trickle down economics, who advocates that anymore anyway? It died in the 80s and is now just a left wing fantasy (but yes, I guess there are a few that do). Any ideology can be dumbed down in a couple of paragraphs like this...

I'm sure you're joking, but some people really do believe transfer receipts make their way back to SISU. What are operating costs, £6.5 million a year? So we have to find more than 500K a month to pay salaries and cover costs. We've probably made 500K from season ticket sales so far, so that's...

Interesting. The thing is though, nobody can agree on whether we ought to be higher or lower on that list. Should tax revenue as a share of national income be higher and more in line with France, Germany and Italy; or, should it be lower in line with the US, Australia, Canada, Japan...

Seems crazy that a club like Bolton could go to wall over the purchase of a hotel. Surely, if the takeover for the club is agreed you would finalise the deal. If the hotel is subject to a separate administration process that is 6-8 weeks away from completion well so be it. The administrator...

You're right, they don't. The point stands though, that tax revenues are at record highs, the tax burden is as high as it has been for a long time at 34% of GDP and the contribution of the wealthiest (as a proportion of the total tax take) is also at a record high. What's the answer? I simply...

I picked on the tax thing because I didn't really disagree with anything else in your post and I wasn't suggesting that you had argued the tax system was regressive. It is something that frustrates me, because the debate is skewed by people who come at it from an ideological standpoint rather...

I think there is an element of truth in that. I'm often shocked by how some people operate in business. Only last week I had an old lady in tears because another company charged her 15K for something she didn't really need, should have cost 2K and which didn't work. We ended up fixing it for...

The discussion regarding taxation is completely distorted. The perception being that we have a regressive system, when that really isn't the case at all. Roughly 90% of income tax is paid by the 50% of taxpayers with the highest incomes, while more than a quarter is paid by the richest 1% (in...

Not really, because I don't know who 'they' are meant to be. I run a small business. I'm not competing against Etonians who used Daddy's money to gain an unfair advantage, they're just ordinary people like myself who had a bit of a punt. If they succeed and I fail, we'll so be it. They did it...

There is no guarantee we'll reinvest the money. We've already spent this summer, the Wilson deal didn't happen and there is a massive hole in the finances because of reduced ST sales. Maybe we will, but I'm not expecting it, and if we do it'll be borrowed money.

Presumably Pompey had a sell-on clause also?

Statement from Appleton - Statement on behalf of Paul Appleton, Joint Administrator for Bolton Wanderers

Tired, discredited, leftist tropes. The politics of envy taken up a notch. Of course people will benefit from circumstance. I suggested that in my original post, especially when referring to tech billionaires who would have benefitted from being in the right place at the right time with the...