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gement of over 160 english football clubs by dr john beech winner of the fsf writer of the year award 2009 10 twitter johnbeech curator of scoop it football finance home about courses links no of clubs overviews research resources recent posts content at coventry on coventry city hereford united and salisbury city not forgetting the owners directors test moving on from sisu out ready to come back onto the e pitch opening a can of worms for once a personal note part and parcel of the modern game the stadium curse pompey the turning point round up of season 2011 12 a little light uefanomics so is it really goodbye bluebirds hello red dragons deconstructing peter lorimer why i shall be especially grumpy this saturday afternoon the new broken time payments recent updates newest first worcester city update plymouth update cardiff debt down from guns to darts governance update fickle fate update intern shooting update russo v scally result olympic stadium latest jack frost update portsmouth 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point posted by john beech on november 20 2012 i ve not blogged recently on the pompey basket case not because there wasn t much happening but rather because there has been almost too much happening to stop and take a coherent view in fact the last time i posted was back in march 2011 when i commented portsmouth city football club ltd is dead long live portsmouth football club 2010 ltd 1 and it reads today like some historical piece and at least a tad ironic to boot the tagline was onward and upward at portsmouth the announcement that a conditional sale to the pompey supporters trust has been agreed 2 brings at least some sort of turning point that the alternative bid from balram chainrai was turned down by the administrator can only be good news just how many times can the same person save a club trevor birch s choice may or may not have been influenced by the blogs of micah hall 3 but certainly the lack of response to the questions micah posed to tavistock communications portpin s pr company spoke volumes micah s digging deserves an award and shows how far a fan can go in the bigger picture of financial decision making the fly in the ointment of the sale is of course the issue of the value that chainrai is trying to place on fratton park unless he finally decides to bow out gracefully accepting that he made a very bad business call the matter will go to court with independent valuations at a much lower level the trust stands a very good chance of getting the desired result there is also the matter of a potential further ten points deduction on coming out of administration here i am less optimistic i fear it will be yet more evidence that the deduction of points is an entirely dysfunctional sanction but let s not burn our bridges before we come to them all in all there does finally seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel and this hopefully will prove a turning point in the club s miserable fortunes in the bigger picture it may well prove to be a turning point in the road to fan ownership of clubs it does need to be seen though as one of many turning points as i m sure brentford chester exeter wrexham and wimbledon fans and that s not a definitive list would be quick to point out it s significance will depend on how well the hybrid model involving high net worth individuals will work in practice if it does work it will doubtless encourage the supporters trusts at bigger clubs such as liverpool manchester united and newcastle as a member of the pompey supporters trust i feel considerably more confident regarding the future than i have for a very long time i ve even put a bottle of bubbly in the fridge but i ll not actually open it though until fratton park is in the fans hands the only certainty is the debt of gratitude pompey fans owe to the pst board let s show our gratitude by uniting behind them share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in community fans insolvency ownership points deduction sanctions stadium trusts tagged community fans insolvency ownership points deduction sanctions stadium supporters trust 3 comments so is it really goodbye bluebirds hello red dragons posted by john beech on june 7 2012 like the old joke about anti social behaviour in a lift what is happening at cardiff city is just plain wrong at so many levels the root causes of the problem lie in sam hammam s decision to build a new stadium the resulting deep financial difficulty that cardiff got themselves into with langston and the damoclean debt hanging over the club as a result and peter ridsdale s decision to involve the club in what was from the first described as a strategic marketing alliance with malaysian investors 1 as he said at the time it will be a long term alliance it will include youth development it will include the opportunity to explore the whole fan base it will certainly include sponsorship we are already talking to them about shirt sponsorship and stadium naming rights without any definite conclusions at this stage we are also talking about their assistance in trying to put this club on the sort of financial footing that we would have liked to dream of when i first arrived at this football club needless to say there was no public talk of the shirt sponsorship involving what has just been announced indeed as recently as 10 may dato chan tien ghee said in an open letter to fans wrote the new club crest and home colours which were being discussed were intended to demonstrate the symbolic fusion of welsh and asian cultures through the use of the colour red and the predominant featuring of a historical welsh dragon under the cardiff city fc name this would have been a springboard for the successful commercialisation and promotion of the club and its brand driving international revenues and allowing us to fund transfers and success locally thereby giving the club the best chance of competing at the higher reaches of competition this was not meant as a slight in any way shape or form on the club s traditions or history which we recognise are the lifeblood of any club it was intended as a positive change to allow us to adapt and embrace the future notwithstanding a number of rumours there were no further plans to turn the stadium red or make other radical changes 2 his use of were being discussed and would have been must have suggested to many including myself that the rebranding of club with a change in shirt colour and change in logo were now a dead duck a not unreasonable understanding as he continued in the light of the vociferous opposition by a number of the fans to the proposals being considered as expressed directly to our local management and through various media and other outlets we will not proceed with the proposed change of colour and logo and the team will continue to play in blue at home for the next season with the current badge he kept his word for less than a month in his open letter he also alluded to the current instability in the club s business model thus it is clear to all concerned that the club simply cannot continue to function and exist in its current state effectively losing large amounts of money each month while acquiring more and more debt no one can reasonably disagree with view in the debate that has broken out in the last couple of days since the announcement of the decision to do a u turn 3 or to use the language you might expect from someone engaged in a strategic marketing alliance following a comprehensive review of wider supporter feedback via email letters media coverage and polls run via the official supporters club and media wales and as a consequence of the above commitment cardiff city football club will also reactivate rebranding proposals with a view to exploiting and maximising its brand and commercial revenues in international markets attitudes seem to have become polarised into two camps on the one hand what is happening is a faustian pact which involves selling the soul of the club on the other the club s survival depends on a business plan that will result in untold wealth pouring in from new fans in the far east as is so often the case it is difficult to engage in debate regarding the relative merits of these two views because they are based on different meanings of the word club 4 the present attempt at debate assumes that these are two mutually exclusive and opposed views and that there are no other possibilities no room for overlap and no possibility of compromise that certainly seems to be the view of the malaysian investors which raises a number of issues in itself it suggests that the future of the club hangs on the fickleness of future supporters in the far east who a would support a club in a red shirt but not one in a blue shirt and that b providing the club s shirt is red and has a dragon on it they will support in sufficient numbers to pay off the rest of the langston debt reinvigorate the club s fortunes in both senses of the word and allow the investors to see a return on their investment as to a i think this is simplistic and over stated as to b i can understand the malaysian investors looking to the marketing success of manchester united but they might better have a word with balram chainrai or those behind the k k shonan management corporation 5 erstwhile saviours of plymouth argyle what is happening at cardiff is little short of seeing owners who view a club as a commodity which can have some brand value spray painted onto it to make it stand out from the rest a simple question to dato chan tien ghee if the key to your success lies in owning a red club why didn t you buy a red one if the answer is simply well peter hadn t got a red one in his briefcase to show us god preserve us others have tried this drastic rebranding with some commercial success an obvious example is that of sv austria salzburg which red bull bought and rebranded as fc red bull 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