Friday 4 July 2008

Cardiff City's losses this year

5 million pounds.

Cardiff city Chairman Peter Ridsdale's bonus this year (on top of wages of half a million +) £500,000.

Nice work if you can get it.

Last night British MP' in Westminster voted down a measure to scrutinise their expenses more closely- meaning any expense for under £25 needs no receipt. And they still get up £25,000 for refurbishing their second homes in London (even if they live in outer London).

My sources say "that would pay for a lot of nurses... and rollercoasters."

3 comments:

Jason said...

I am pleased you pick up on how many rollercoasters that would purchase. That is a lot of schoolkids being denied three minutes of excitement (and so far, nobody has stabbed somebody else to death on a rollercoaster mid-flight).

However, Risdale deserves his money simply for being one of the greatest fabricators of our age. I truly believe he suffers from an Oliver Sacks style textbook example of a fabulist. I heard him on Radio 4 and it was the most astonishing hour of my life (I know, I know), the endless stream of words that veered away from any notion of the facts and gave us history Risdale style, where our man is always centre-stage, always magnificent, always innocent, and always the victim of complex knife-jobs (to use the popular language of the day)

Star quality.

Chris Paul said...

He is indeed a most likeable blend of imcompetence and egomania.

Jason said...

That such a man is continually attracted to parting football clubs from their assets - well, it says far more about how football runs itself...