Him only bowing down to pay all the extortionate demands of footballers and their agents.......so about Jimmy Hill ?!
Brian Richardson. (3 Viewers)
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usskyblue
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Covstu
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600k bonus, selling retail space as part of that.... the man that keeps taking
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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I genuinely thought he was dead, must be confusing him with Mike McGinnity!
oldskyblue58
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What's the point of interviewing him he has nothing new to offer and played a key part in putting the club in a vulnerable position
Nick
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I reckon it will be asking him what he thinks about it all...
I can't see them giving him any questions about his time here.
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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He'll probably talk about how sad it is that the club is in this state and that all he'd ever wanted was for the Ricoh to secure our future.....and £588k per year.
no_loyalty
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It wouldn't surprise me if he came on and said he was willing to help with sorting out the problems.
usskyblue
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Like he did 5 years ago ?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.co...news/want-help-save-coventry-city-3026911.amp
no_loyalty
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Yes m8, exactly like that.
torchomatic
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Not paying himself more than the PL chairman?
Not getting loans from the club?
Not gifting himself hundreds of thousands in bonuses?
Not selling HR?
Not renting back HR?
Not pocketing hundreds of thousands from sale of Arena land to Tesco?
torchomatic
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True. The decisions he made BEFORE January 2002 fucked us up big time though. We've never recovered.
Nick
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You are a fan then?
torchomatic
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Love the guy.
rob9872
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Post of the season!
Take me way too long to check all that out. Not disagreeing but the downfall of football and a lot of sport is the hideous and nauseating wage figures they demand. Richardson was a grabber but he wasn't and isn't on his own is he.
no_loyalty
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To be fair, nobody called Richardson a c**t when Mustapha Hadji turned down Marseille to come and join us.
usskyblue
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I bet the bank manager thought it m8
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Captain Dart
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Trish Adudu is practically brain dead, I can guarantee she won't make this interview difficult for Mr R.
SkyBlueCRJ
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He claims to not know absolutely anything about where the money went from the Highfield Road sale, where the 60M debt rumours originated from or about taking money out of the club. Either way he looks completely incompetent or is an absolute liar
Nick
Administrator
LIVE: Former Coventry City chairman to speak on club crisis
Cost of the scheme
Mr Richardson said the money from sale of land to Tesco, as part of the development of the former gasworks, should have been “more than enough to do the whole development”.
So, why didn't it?
Cost of the scheme
Mr Richardson said the money from sale of land to Tesco, as part of the development of the former gasworks, should have been “more than enough to do the whole development”.
So, why didn't it?
He was a fans dream at the time, facilitating expenditure for eye catching players. .....that we just couldn't afford ! Strachan lapped it up of course as manager, we also sold at inflated prices too but ultimately ran up that killer debt that messed us and quite a few other clubs up. Truth is if we had just clung on to the Prem for a few more years we would have hit the big time.
NortonSkyBlue
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I met Richardson on several social occasions in the nineties and I held him in the highest regard as a chairman and custodian of the club. He was ambitious, open, deep thinking and wanted only the best for club and the new stadium was his baby until his removal.
Now it is up to others to decide their truth about him but I believe the ombudsman cleared him of any wrong doing at the time and does anybody really believe that he got millions out of the process and hasn't been spoken to by the authorities or sued, or barred as a company director?
Then you have the Chinese whispers, why hasn't he faced them head on? I know he had a spell as a financial advisor at Derby which will make some laugh or choke!
Where he lost me was the pay rises and bonus he gave himself. These are not flights of fantasy or urban gossip but audited club accounts.
"Richardson's decision to vote himself a 170% pay rise and hoist his wage to around £600,000 a year riled supporters and he was removed in a January boardroom coup with the club £60m in debt."
Now it is up to others to decide their truth about him but I believe the ombudsman cleared him of any wrong doing at the time and does anybody really believe that he got millions out of the process and hasn't been spoken to by the authorities or sued, or barred as a company director?
Then you have the Chinese whispers, why hasn't he faced them head on? I know he had a spell as a financial advisor at Derby which will make some laugh or choke!
Where he lost me was the pay rises and bonus he gave himself. These are not flights of fantasy or urban gossip but audited club accounts.
"Richardson's decision to vote himself a 170% pay rise and hoist his wage to around £600,000 a year riled supporters and he was removed in a January boardroom coup with the club £60m in debt."
NortonSkyBlue
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Who is that question to Nick?
Nick
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Anybody who wants to answer.
Nick
Administrator
So the money from the sale to tesco went on other stuff with the council?