This guy should be shot

[Maldini]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/notting...ire/7318218.stm

 

'Dream Team' vision for Stags bid

A man bidding to buy Mansfield Town is planning to rename the club Harchester United after the former Sky series The Dream Team, the BBC has learnt.

 

John Batchelor, former owner of York City, submitted a bid to majority shareholder Keith Haslam on Wednesday.

 

Producers of the Sky series confirmed Mr Batchelor had made an approach to use the name.

 

However a Football League spokesman told BBC Radio Nottingham they would have to approve any change in name.

 

Crucial match

 

Mr Batchelor said: "Football supporters in general have to understand that if they want professional football in their town, they have to accept it has to be done on a commercial basis.

 

"Harchester is more promotable than Mansfield. That's not any form of insult to Mansfield at all because it's a club with a long tradition but it's just a fact of life.

 

 

"One club has been on the television for 10 years and the other one hasn't."

 

The businessman changed York City's name to York City Soccer Club when he was at Bootham Crescent to attract American interest.

 

Mansfield are currently second from bottom in the Football League.

 

Mr Batchelor was initially part of a consortium before deciding to bid for the struggling League Two club on his own.

 

The club has undergone a name change once before - from Mansfield Wesleyans to Mansfield Town in 1910.

 

The Stags play Notts County in a crucial local derby at Meadow Lane on Saturday.

[Gilps]

f*** me.

[Tones]

Why?????

[ManxRed]

Why?????

 

I'm thinking he sees an opportunity to increase their fan base by the small number of mentally challenged idiots who watch Dream Team on Sky and have a tenous grasp of the difference between TV fiction and reality.

 

In the Mansfield area.

 

It'll probably double their gate receipts.

[Woodsyla]

If I were an assassin I'd take this c*** out right after Mugabe.

 

What a t**.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

what a bell.

 

Football is being destroyed

[whitewidow]

"promotable" - is that even a word?

[Ronnie Whelan]

York City Soccer Club, what a c***.

[Maldini]

Do you want to know the most idiotic part of this whole farce? Dream Team was cancelled last summer!

[stressederic]

L4_Lad will be pleased.

[John am Rhein]

Mr Batchelor said: "Football supporters in general have to understand that if they want professional football in their town, they have to accept it has to be done on a commercial basis.

 

As long as mr Batchelor accepts the likelihood of being beaten to death, that's fine.

[Hassony]

This is an april fool day joke that got out a day too early it seem!

[muleskinner]

That club has been run by conmen and crooks for years, this fella is just another in the line.

[LondonLiverpoolFan]

I heard this on Five live at the weekend. They interviewed the fella who comes across as a complete Kn*b. They then had a Mansfield fan on saying that they don't want him near their club etc.

[psl]

This guy obviously didn't see what usually happened to the owners and chairmen of Harchester United.

Edited April 1, 2008 by psl

[Ronnie Whelan]

This guy obviously didn't see what usually happened to the owners and chairmen of Harchester United.

 

 

Get sucked off by some blonde?

[psl]

Get sucked off by some blonde?

 

Yeah fair point.

[Hassony]

Get sucked off by some blonde?

 

and ended up on a daz advert

[Ronnie Whelan]

and ended up on a daz advert

 

 

A fate worse than death.

[McBain]

I hope it happens. I know loads of stags fans and they're all ultrac***s

[crisps]

Apparanty he cant even pay his own bills

 

supposably a reyt t**!

Edited April 2, 2008 by crisps