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| aldi_01 |
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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…
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| Les Brechin |
| February 25, 2022, 11:26am |
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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…
From the podcast description.
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From the world’s oldest football league club to the communist dictatorship of North Korea, this incredible story has it all.
It’s a tale of greed and intrigue that takes us on a journey from the streets of Nottingham to the Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain. At the heart of it, a conman who fooled football bosses, a London bank and foreign regimes. Russell King’s audacious multi-million pound scam which brought the world’s oldest football club Notts County to the brink of oblivion.
The story begins at the club’s ground Meadow Lane. It’s 2009 and team has just managed to their football league status after years of fighting for survival. Out of the blue comes a knight in shining armour with promises of untold wealth from the Middle East and ambitions to catapult the club from the lowly fourth tier to the Premier League.
Enter former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson and England and Arsenal legend Sol Campbell. All of a sudden Notts County are surfing the crest of the wave – they’re off to the promised land. But is all as it seems? Or are dreams about to be shattered?
Absolutely nothing to do with Town but still worth a list when you've got a bit of spare time. |
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| 123614 |
| February 25, 2022, 11:28am |
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Is this a true story or fiction?
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| diehardmariner |
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I enjoyed the Allen Stanford ones so will give this a go. Didn't realise they had done a Shergar one too, weirdly done by Vanilla Ice!
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Is this a true story or fiction?
No way Sven would've gone to Notts County so must be some sort of Jilly Cooper thing. |
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| jamesgtfc |
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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…
Alex May is the £10 conman. Even highly sophisticated conmen wouldn't want anything to do with John. |
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| Kris2 |
| February 25, 2022, 3:55pm |
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The Notts County story was all a bit crazy. Sven turned out to be incredibly dodgy in the whole situation and everyone soon left when the money didn't materialise. There is a Youtube video that sums up all the major points if you don't care for a podcast. https://youtu.be/obOBSDpDuJo |
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I enjoyed this Les and was pleased to hear Matt Scott as a contributor as he did a lot of the heavy lifting in this expose.
Off topic but Matt's a gent off the pitch but a complete hothead on it. I used to play 5aside with him and he'd get sent off virtually every game! 🤣
Funnily enough, a mate from Cleethorpes told me the same about BBC Sport's Mark Chapman, who he used to play up front alongside for a Hull Uni old boys team in a London league.
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| tanga_the_indestructible |
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The Notts County story was all a bit crazy. Sven turned out to be incredibly dodgy in the whole situation and everyone soon left when the money didn't materialise. There is a Youtube video that sums up all the major points if you don't care for a podcast. https://youtu.be/obOBSDpDuJo
Having listened to the whole series of the Trillionaire Conman, I don't think Sven was particularly dodgy at all. Notts fans were full of praise for him for sticking around longer than many would have, even though he knew he wasn't going to get paid (and most of the promised money was in shares of a bogus company set up by Russell King). |
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| Maringer |
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One of my mates found himself living in the same swanky apartment block as Sven back in those days. Down by the river, not too far from the racecourse I seem to think.
He said it was very disconcerting to bump into Sven from time to time as they were entering ot leaving the building because he was still one of the most famous names in football back in those days!
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No sympathy for the Notts fans in that situation. They voted for it - their Trust sold out.
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I saw your face and heard you call my name.
Oh my friend we're older but no wiser,
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same. |
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Great listen.
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Who can forget the day Sven led England to a 1-5 win in Germany, the same day Town went top of the Football League.
Happy days.
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Who can forget the day Sven led England to a 1-5 win in Germany, the same day Town went top of the Football League.
Happy days.
I work with someone who is 24 (born in 1997) so obviously he has no memory of football in 2001. I told him about this feat and showed him the league table from that day. I also said we spent all but one season in the Championship from 1991 to 2003 and he had no idea whatsoever. Sadly, he (and every football fan of his generation) don't think we're a sleeping giant in non-league, or anything like that. They just know us for years of kicking around in the lower reaches of L2, and in the top half of the NL. If they ever saw Grimsby in L1 they'd probably react in the same way we did when Morecambe got in there last May! I know it's not quite the same because Morecambe don't get the crowds we do, but still, you get my point. Only people of a certain age still believe we're punching below our weight. But to many neutral fans under the age of 30, we're a bit of a nothing team. My earliest memory of Notts County was them being in the top division. I had a sticker book for that season and I believe they had a keeper called Steve Cherry? Luton were in Div 1 then as well. |
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I work with someone who is 24 (born in 1997) so obviously he has no memory of football in 2001. I told him about this feat and showed him the league table from that day. I also said we spent all but one season in the Championship from 1991 to 2003 and he had no idea whatsoever.
Sadly, he (and every football fan of his generation) don't think we're a sleeping giant in non-league, or anything like that. They just know us for years of kicking around in the lower reaches of L2, and in the top half of the NL.
If they ever saw Grimsby in L1 they'd probably react in the same way we did when Morecambe got in there last May!
I know it's not quite the same because Morecambe don't get the crowds we do, but still, you get my point. Only people of a certain age still believe we're punching below our weight. But to many neutral fans under the age of 30, we're a bit of a nothing team.
My earliest memory of Notts County was them being in the top division. I had a sticker book for that season and I believe they had a keeper called Steve Cherry? Luton were in Div 1 then as well.
Yeah, I feel really sorry for anyone born then or after, no real memories of the good times. I'm lucky that I can remember seeing us winning at places such as Anfield, Goodison, Stamford Bridge, Ayresome Park, St.James Park (not Exeter), Turf Moor, Selhurst Park, Upton Park (even if it was against Charlton) and the unforgettable Wembley double season of 1998. Will we ever get back to those levels. Maybe, but I'm not sure it'll be in my lifetime! |
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Good points Rich. Other teams you can add to that list are Swindon, Oldham and going back a bit further Oxford. That generation won't even associate Sheff Weds, Coventry, QPR et al as top flight sides.
I can remember Cambridge going close to reaching the first Premier League season only to get a tonking in the play-off semi finals to Leicester. Southend finished midtable in the second flight that year. We just survived yet still finished above Newcastle.
I've just looked and in the football ladder the following teams finished below us that season (91-92) and have since had at least one season in the top flight:
Newcastle
Brighton
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Brentford
Birmingham
Huddersfield
Stoke
West Brom
Bournemouth
Fulham
Reading
Bolton
Hull
Wigan
Bradford
Swansea
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Burnley
Blackpool
Cardiff
There's only a few of those that haven't ate at the top table in recent years. We haven't sat in the second tier for 20 seasons. A season less since we were last in the third tier!
Football has dramatically changed in the last 25-30 years. Unfortunately for us, we've been on the wrong side of that change.
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A great documentary ruined by a narrator explaining things like none of us have ever seen a football match in our lives
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Sven is a nice bloke had lunch with him and Peter Kenyon who was equally nice at Stamford Bridge when Sven was still England manager . Before we sat down he went round the table and shook everybody’s hand and said hello I am Sven as if we didn’t know.
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Who can forget the day Sven led England to a 1-5 win in Germany, the same day Town went top of the Football League.
Happy days.
.... and a few days after the birth of my daughter. Happy days indeed. |
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