Betfair

[Family at War]

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.

[Spy]

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

[flammableBen]

Can they put some money in my betfair account please?

[michael]

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."

[pauld]

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

Not at the game though was he?

"...After calls to Tom and a few others we picked up our deckchairs and headed down to the beach for a swim. "

Just a deckchair fan after all