Houlding back the Years…
How the mighty wheel turns, not a month away from the Man Utd game and all the barrage of yankee doodle dandy insults we fired at the Double Glaziers, will come back, no doubt, less wittily, at us on March 3rd.
Some small town Hick, and the close shave man himself, Mr Gillette have so far said all the right things; used the word ‘football’; joked about Carra’s accent and talked of winning. And we the fans swing from “I hope we get relegated” to “Happy Days are here again”.
I want to wait for a little of the prairie dust to settle and some tumbleweed to blow through before my feelings settle. Right now I’m cautious but optimistic. I like Moores and he’s done ok so far by me, so he has my trust in this issue for now. But also I’m aware that we’re now owned by Americans. A pal of George Bush no less. Makes me feel that today my club has got a little smaller, not a little bigger….
February 6th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
An affecting post. Like you, I share some optimism though perhaps I’m more skeptical overall. I have been interested in doing a bit of background research on Mr. Hicks, and it appears that the businessman has a murky past as far as the Texas Rangers transaction is concerned.
[Link: http://www.makethemaccountable.com/tax/SaleOfBaseballTeam.htm]
This has little to do with LFC, but it does raise some important questions about the character of the club……but then again, perhaps all multimillionaires step on a few people and break a few rules along the way to the world of riches and power.
February 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
here’s that link again — didn’t work in the last comment
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/tax/SaleOfBaseballTeam.htm
February 6th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
I’m not on a “witch hunt” here, but here with more info about our new man Hicks:
Tom Hicks, the investment banker to whom Bush and Rainwater sold the Texas Rangers, owns a vast sports and media empire and was George’s biggest ‘98 campaign contributor. Bush had allowed him to head up a committee charged with “investing $1.7 billion of public university money in the form of investments in private companies.” Unfortunately, according to R. G. Ratcliffe in a March 20 investigative article written in the Houston Chronicle, questions have recently been asked because “almost a third of the $1.7 billion has been committed to funds run by Hicks’ business associates or friends (and)…. five funds run by major Republican political donors.” These questions have remained unanswered and Hicks has been unwilling to answer questions about his activities on the public’s behalf.. “In the past three years, state auditors have criticized the secretive nature of (the Hicks committee’s) investment decisions and have complained about the potential for conflicts of interest for board members.” Recently, Hicks has decided to take on fewer responsibilities within the public university fund and the committee has promised to be more public in its financial activities, but has declined to provide explanations about past dealings, citing contractual agreements with the parties involved.
http://www.bushwatch.com/bushmillions.html