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In the Telegraph business section today it states Betfair are on the verge of floating on the stockmarket with a value of 1.5bn. A nice tidy sum for Mr Bertie Black and Mr Ed Wray who still own 25% each. Would be nice if the town saw a little piece of this.

We could buy back Cox. (actually that joke isn't funny  :cry:)

Can they put some money in my betfair account please?

Interesting entry today by Bert on his blog, suggesting to me that he really is starting to become quite passionate about Town:

http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/

"...After calls to Tom and a few others we picked up our deckchairs and headed down to the beach for a swim. The water was warm with a gentle tide and breeze. It felt like the old days. News came through that Trott had notched up his hundred. Swindon were away to Oldham and I was following the action on my blackberry. It was 1-1 as we went in to extra time - I tensed up as we threw away a load of games last year in the late stages.

The phone rang - it was Jeremy. My heart leapt - I knew we must have scored. I started pacing around the beach and did fist pumping signs to Jon. We had indeed scored - Billy Paynter from 18 yards out.

This was it - the day of all days. I was about to throw my arms back and blast out ‘oh it’s such a perfect day…’ in my best and loudest baritone when…

Jeremy said ‘I don’t believe it’… - Oldham had equalised in the dying seconds with a complete fluke - a cross from 40 yards out had caught the wind and floated into the goal. A devastating blow. I went back to watch the cricket - the Aussies notched up 80 for no loss and are still very much in the game.

Not such a perfect day after all. Not bad though on balance.

I have a few runners for the second half of the week - will update later."

Not at the game though was he?
Just a deckchair fan after all :)