I was going to do something like proper journalism this morning

and do some careful research into the GSE Group who have just bought Derby County. Sadly, however, google turned up nothing on them, not even a company website, and since the web is pretty much the only research tool I have, my impetus is now well and truly blunted. In the absence of evidence though I am now free to imagine just how shadowy the organisation is, I mean, why would any 21st century business not have an easily googable website, unless, and I say this in sinister italics, they have something to hide...? HMMM? Even the overlords of what I'll dub the Global Empire, the Carlyle Group, have a webiste http://www.carlyle.com/. On this site they carefully disguise just how much money they get for every bomb dropped on the middle east.

So what digs with the GSE? How come they need to communicate nothing to the football obsessed British public? Why no website. They must be either incompetent, or mysterious, or both. And how can this be when they buy Derby at such an opportune time. When relegation certainty has shaved off the price a bit, but before the competition to purchase hots up at the end of season. Smart move then.

The purchase ensures that over 25% of premiership clubs are now foreign owned. A fact which could, in the right hands, trigger a mini frenzy for nationalist economics. Time to dust off the Scargilite banners perhaps.

" Nationalise the National Game!!"
"Tell the yanks to fuck off home and stop calling it soccer"

The campaign chants could be fun too- "What do we want? Nationalisation. When do we want it? After Match Of the Day."

In Newcastle the revolution continues. With queen's infantryman Dennis Wise hanging up his Leed's coloured tracksuit and coming to the club, presumably to take the role turned down by Alan Shearer. As reported elsewhere last week Alan was overheard saying- "Kevin is his own man and can do we what he likes. But it is my club."

Football- where the narrative never stops...