Cosmo
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In descending order of quantity a quarter of a billion dollars will get you:
13,888,889 of the cheap seats for the USA V Denmark international at LA Galaxy’s Home Depot Center on January 20
3,846,154 LA Galaxy Home Shirts at retail (it’ll cost extra for the letters ‘a’ ‘b’ ‘c’ ‘e’ ‘h’ ‘k’ and ‘m’ on the back)
833,333 LA Galaxy Season Tickets for 2006 (General Admission at $300 each)
657,895 LA Galaxy Season Tickets for 2007 (General Admission at $380 each)
4,771 full color, full page ads in the NY Times Sports Section (Announcing the arrival of a new player)
132 years of an entire squad’s salary under the ‘old’ MLS rules
65 Clint Dempseys (New England Revolution to Fulham)
4 years of interest payments on Manchester United’s debts post-Malcolm Glazer takeover
2 entire Aston Villa Football Clubs as purchased by Randy Lerner
1 slightly past it, former international footballer who, in the words of George Best ‘ cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right." And that was in his prime…
[Edited on 05-02-2007 by Cosmo]
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Nath
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Fascinating stuff Cosmotron 
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Marc
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Bit of an American, LA Galaxy fetish going on there
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Bit of an American, LA Galaxy fetish going on there
yes, you do get the LA Galaxy/Beckham link dont you?!
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Nath
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Fair play to Beckham. I'd love to get that much money for being supposidly average at my job.
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Marc
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Should have gone to Celtic imo 
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Should have gone to Celtic imo
Should of gone to Spurs, biggest club in the world!
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Marc
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2007 FA Cup and UEFA Cup winners.
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Hammer
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Should have gone to Celtic imo
I wish
You seem to have a fascination about seeing him in a Celtic top thoughfor some reason?
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Marc
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Best offer he received imo. Still top flight and chance of playing in europe.
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Hammer
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I'd suggest we didn't even start to contemplate offering him a deal, there is no team in England that could afford him never mind a poor Scottish club.
No matter we have a better dead ball specialist who ironically displayed his prowess against the team Beckham made his name with 
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