Andrew Black, the 4th consortium member. Fact.

[Batch]

Saw this posted by KR on MOS

http://www.bertsblog.co.uk/horses/come-on-you-robins.html
 

Betfair’s Andrew Black Blog, Fake or real?

I made my first move in a new direction over the Christmas period when I effectively took a piece of Swindon Town FC.  Jeremy Wray (Ed’s brother) is a long time friend, and he was working on the deal alongside his business partner, Andrew Fitton.  Andrew takes the lead (and is chairman) with Jeremy playing a strong supporting role.  The other two members of the consortium are me and Sir Martyn Arbib, but we are for the most part just putting cash up.

 

For a club to thrive in the long term it needs to be extremely well run, and Andrew is an incredibly good businessman - I have no doubt that he’ll do the club proud.  The plan is to steady the ship and slowly build the club up from there.  We have a new CEO, a new manager, four new players and a decent run of recent results – I think we’ve got a very respectable chance of making the play-offs.

 

On to more mundane matters, and I signed up with Weightwatchers on Tuesday.  I turn up to weigh in and stand in a queue for ten minutes.  Suddenly I hear a booming voice;  “Ladies, we have a man with us today!” followed by a lot of sniggering.  The weightwatchers group consisted of about thirty overweight middle-aged women and me.  Oh well.

 

Later I had to go and meet “the leader”, a 20 year old girl who gave me a little lecture on counting points as I eat.  I smiled and thanked her.  After that we all sat round in a big circle (I sat out the back) and had a chat about who was happy and who was unhappy that week.  Not the high point of my week, but maybe the embarassment of it all will spur me on to greater heights.

Not much horse racing action, but I have one going tomorrow – Shepherds Warning goes for a hatrick of claimers tomorrow at Wolver.   On the face of it she has a tough job to beat Rich Kid, but we know she’ll go well in the conditions and she has a great attitude.  She’ll have a very respectable chance.

[suttonred]

You do realise KR is a martian?

[Batch]

You do realise KR is a martian?

On closer inspection he nicked it off thisis... I'm not sure if that makes it more credible or less credible???

[leefer]

Very interesting,if its spoof then its a good one,lets hope his horse wins a few more races!

[pauld]

The blog's pukka apparently. But KR is a spoof.

[Batch]

The blog's pukka apparently. But KR is a spoof.

Interesting, I guess they were ready to reveal Andrew Black. Probably waiting for him to lose a bit of cristmas podge at weightwatchers

KR can't be made up, there is a 78% chance of that. Though I did read it in the Adver so it's probably just rumour.

[magic8ball]

Looks like the real deal to me.

I love the way he just drops in that him and Arbib are just putting the cash up.

These rich people are awesome.

[pauld]

The blog's pukka apparently. But KR is a spoof.

Interesting, I guess they were ready to reveal Andrew Black. Probably waiting for him to lose a bit of cristmas podge at weightwatchers

KR can't be made up, there is a 78% chance of that. Though I did read it in the Adver so it's probably just rumour.

Have you ever noticed no-one's ever seen him and Leroy at the same game? Coincidence? I think not.

[sonic youth]

i know a couple of people who work at betfair HQ, i shall see if they know anything.

if it's true that's about £750m we're worth innit?

[Summerof69]

So more money than you can shake a stick at, then !!!

[pauld]

i know a couple of people who work at betfair HQ, i shall see if they know anything.

if it's true that's about £750m we're worth innit?

No, it's about £umpty million our owners are worth. Different thing altogether. But reassuring nonetheless

[sonic youth]

they=us

ergo we

qed

WE'RE MINTED

[suttonred]

Have you ever noticed no-one's ever seen him and Leroy at the same game? Coincidence? I think not.

which one do you think is Latoya?  I,ve met KR but never leroy, even though he's the worlds biggest stfc fan

[Sussex]

Have you ever noticed no-one's ever seen him and Leroy at the same game? Coincidence? I think not.

which one do you think is Latoya?  I,ve met KR but never leroy, even though he's the worlds biggest stfc fan

I'd be lost without KRs matchday comment based on the radio commentary.

CG Saturday it is then..

[Ardiles]

Have you ever noticed no-one's ever seen him and Leroy at the same game? Coincidence? I think not.

which one do you think is Latoya?  I,ve met KR but never leroy, even though he's the worlds biggest stfc fan

If you saw Leroy, I think you'd recognise him straight away.  He's a regular, home and away.