More Daily Mash mischief:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/manchester-city-makes-250-million-bid-for-arsenals-history-2012072335298
PREMIER League champions Manchester City have tabled an offer to buy up Arsenal’s entire roll-call of honours for an estimated £250 million, plus Adam Johnson.
If accepted, the offer would see City retrospectively crowned league double winners in 1970-71, 1997-98 and 2001-2002, first division champions three seasons running between 1933 and 1935 as well as last-gasp victors in 1989 when they went to Anfield and snatched the title from Liverpool.
The transfer of history would also mean that the 1939 film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, to which City’s owners have acquired all rights, would be renamed The Etihad Stadium Mystery.
Furthermore, copies of Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch are set to be recalled and a new edition written, culminating in Manchester City’s thrilling Division Two play-off victory in 1999 when they upset the odds to beat Gillingham.
Insiders say that the money would be used to strengthen Arsenals squad, with £1.5 million of it put towards a bid for Laurent Ouidy, the injury-prone French winger whose three goals for FC Pantalon almost saved them from relegation last season.
The rest would be used to service the debt on the Emirates stadium, reupholster the executive restaurant dining lounge and as lavatory paper for the club’s shareholders.
Nathan Muir, senior accountant at Arsenal FC, said, “I know fans think trophies are what count – trust me, they’re not. Have you seen the Inter Cities Fairs Cup? You take that mantelpiece bauble down to a car boot sale and trust me, you’ll be driving the b*gger home."
Professor Henry Brubaker of the Institute For Studies said, “Clubs trading each others’ histories is nothing new. Deals like this have been commonplace in football for years.
“Take Manchester United – a nothing team until 1980, when they came into cash and did exactly the same thing as City. Nowadays, no one remembers it was originally Port Vale who beat Benfica to win the 1968 European Cup."
City make £250m bid for Arsenal's History
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Galvin
Funny article
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We are still not the richest club in England
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MCFC
Man City Feeder Club.
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AFC won nowt for the first 50 yrs, then they spent more money than anyone else had ever dreamed, and started winning.
Funny how that part of their history seems to be overlooked.
Hypocrites.
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OP
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AFC won nowt for the first 50 yrs, then they spent more money than anyone else had ever dreamed, and started winning.
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Tell me more then, facts and figures?
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Formed 1886, won nothing for next 40odd years, pay Huddesrfield's Manager £6,000 a year to Manage Arsenal, 15 times the maximum wage for Players, more of which later.
Under Chapman, Arsenal broke World Record Transfer Fees several times, and illegally paid their Players extra cash under the guise of 'second jobs'
And then, having acquired the nickname 'The Bank of England Club' they started winning.
Naturally.
It always comes down to money.
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And? It has been statistically proven that the clubs that win things are generally clubs that spend money. We just did it 70 years before City, hence the whole 'history' thing.
But this thread wasn't supposed to be serious. Lighten up people!