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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 3 weeks ago #100131

Tracy wrote:
Don't worry Ben, he becomes mr grumpy at times, particularly when the trust gets a lot of attention. He's a bit like my little nephew who's in the middle of the terrible twos but an early night and a good sleep usually cures it.
You can't help but like him though? Well I can't. :silly:
Thanks. I havent seen you at a game for a while though, C & J havent been much either is that why?
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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 3 weeks ago #100139

Big John

I disagree. Politics is everything to do with sport. Look at the far right movements in Ukranian football who use the sport to get their message across and spread their fear and violence towards even their own BLACK fans. The whole idea of a new club is politics, we are going from having a chairman/directors to wanting fan ownership which is a very much left wing principle.

Anyway I don't want to get into a politics discussion.
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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 3 weeks ago #100174

Tony Fallows wrote:
Big John.

I agree that sport SHOULD be kept separate from politics, but look at the Euro football competition which is being used to legitimise and give respectability to the government of Ukraine, The Olympics being boycotted by the USA and Soviet Union in the 1980s during the Cold War and even back to the Nazis using the Olympics for prestige and political purposes in 1936, and as for FIFA!!!

The 1936 political overture did not go too well for Hitler with Jesse Owens winning all those gold medals!
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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 3 weeks ago #100181

jamie wrote:
Tracy wrote:
Don't worry Ben, he becomes mr grumpy at times, particularly when the trust gets a lot of attention. He's a bit like my little nephew who's in the middle of the terrible twos but an early night and a good sleep usually cures it.
You can't help but like him though? Well I can't. :silly:
Thanks. I havent seen you at a game for a while though, C & J havent been much either is that why?
Well?
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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 2 weeks ago #100249

Ben wrote:
I just find it incredible that NVFC are still going.

Everywhere you look, there are businesses closing down that are in a lot less debt, have a far greater income stream and actually ran properly.

Football clubs generally have amazing perseverance and longevity. I read somewhere that 95% of the top 100 businesses which existed a century ago have gone under, whereas 95% of the football clubs still exist! No other industry compares.

Can anyone recall the last club to actually go under and not be resurrected in some shape or form? Even Aldershot, Scarborough and Bradford PA have been given CPR and are now back.

Clubs don't die, because all clubs are is the fans. Owners and players come and go, they're merely temporary custodians.
If the fans end up using jumpers for goalposts and playing in a pub league, the club is still going. And sooner or later, it will be back at its rightful level.
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Re: How is NVFC still going? 11 months 2 weeks ago #100250

BigTubster wrote:
Can anyone recall the last club to actually go under and not be resurrected in some shape or form? Even Aldershot, Scarborough and Bradford PA have been given CPR and are now back.

Leigh RMI spring to mind, Scarborough is actually 2 clubs now as the fan base split.
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