tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12154887.post4244118183635329524..comments2024-01-02T23:42:42.632+00:00Comments on Bitter and Blue: Bowen interviews HughesDanny Pugsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14426646073355525430noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12154887.post-61566368986760454852008-10-13T23:34:00.000+01:002008-10-13T23:34:00.000+01:00It also appeared in The Times, but I have a little...It also appeared in The Times, but I have a little trouble with it. Doesn't sound like the kind of conversation any manager and assistant would have - or have time for. Good to see the Times aren't as anti-City as they were though.<BR/><BR/>All the papers follow the party line on "all this money is ruining the game", coming from such notoriously hard-up clubs as Arsenal, Utd, Liverpool and Real Madrid, and also Blatter and Platini (who are doing very nicely from all the money there is in the game, thankyou very much and don't bother to apply). It would be depressing if we didn't have so much money...<BR/><BR/>If you add up all the income that the so-called top four have received from being in the Champion's League since it started (£20 million a year-ish?, for 16 years), we still have a lot of catching up to do, but Mark Hughes reported war chest of £100 million is a good start to levelling the playing field.Wigan Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151565997394354471noreply@blogger.com