“I was thinking about a huge post on English and American soccer culture, ESPN, Ian Darke, Hicks and Gillett, the Red Sox, barristers in powdered wigs, Steve McQueen in a Mini Cooper, teenaged Beatles, and Bristol Rovers fans lying down in Leadbelly’s graveyard, but the concept got too unwieldy: Make a list of the places where American culture and English culture intersect, even one that includes only the most striking or the weirdest or the most iconic vertices, and pretty soon you wind up with a galaxy instead of a blog post, and you spend an hour debating whether Edmund Burke gets photographic sidebar representation.11 He would, but only as a representative of paleo-Whigdom in general. So now I’m thinking about a medium-sized post on all that stuff, and Steve McQueen waits for another day.” (Run of Play)
Liverpools Day of Reckoning
“So, farewell then, Thomas O Hicks and George Gillett Junior (H&G) – pending appeal. And what have we learned this last week? Well, to misquote Kipling, ‘if you can keep your head, while all around are losing theirs… you haven’t assessed the situation properly.’ And there was plenty of that in and around Liverpool Football Club lately. There was future-ex-owner, pending appeal, Hicks ‘sacking the electorate’ in boardroom vote-rigging that would have made Elbridge Gerry himself blanch. There was the execrable Piers Morgan in the Mail on Sunday to ask ‘what have Hicks and Gillett actually done wrong?’ Oh yes he did.” (twohundredpercent)
Liverpool FC – Nothing Behind the Curtain
“In a decade, a fresh off the print MBA textbook will be opened to a chapter on ‘International Mergers & Acquisitions: Case Studies in Futility.’ The opening section? Hicks, Gillete, and Liverpool – The Importance of Due Diligence & Cultural Understanding.” (futfanatico)
Hi. Sorry to post this here but I couldn’t find any contact details.
Could you ping me a quick email to ian #at earlybath #dot co.uk
Thanks v much.