The following is taken from RTG who took it from a Burnley board, but worthy of note, botth for the Burnley suggestion and the general humour over the poisoned dwarf ....

Sunderland come up with great fund raising idea

Premiership club Sunderland are set to sue a Uruguayan third division club for misleading them when they signed Honduran Milton Nunez for £1.1 million.

Apparently Sunderland thought they were signing him from top club Nacional Montevideo but he was in fact with a third division club in the same City. They claim that the club, the player and the agent misled them. There was I thinking you signed players based on their ability and not which club they played for. I found it hard to believe until I saw that the person doing the negotiating for the North East club was none other than Burnley’s Joe 90, former club secretary Mark Blackbourne.

You have to have some sympathy with Sunderland of course, they are an honest and decent club who have been done by some dodgy deal. They would never do it to anyone else. Not for one minute would they consider ripping off a badly off second division club in this country by demanding £200,000 for Lee Howey (pictured) who they knew wasn’t even worth the five zeros never mind the two.

This has all got me thinking and could become a very good money raising idea for Burnley Football Club. For instance we could sue the Unprofessionals for taking money off us for Tony Hancock in 1989. Would Bristol City have much defence in court if we challenged them on the Liam Robinson deal?

Then there is Nathan Peel (Sheffield United) and I suppose Nick Pickering (Darlington). We could go for a double with the Unprofessionals and challenge them on Ian Helliwell. Would we have a chance of a claim on Dutch club Volendam for John Clayton?

It all sounds like a very good fund raising idea to me and I’m sure there are other deals we could work on too. Thanks Sunderland – this one’s a good idea.

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

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-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

we could literally recoup millions

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

I reckon Sunderlands motives are a little more sinister....they thought they were buying a white player....

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

Gav

piss poor comment that

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

As was yours....I was hoping for a bigger bite than that! :))

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

Haha, omg those Mackems

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

very poor Gavin.

£200k for Lee Howey is a bargain in today's money and compares favourably with the sums Burnely are "touting" for Glen "Wainwright" Little.

If SAFC hadn't had him on loan first and hadn't only signed him to shift season ticket sales I'd be more symapthetic.

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

No need for a bite Gav with shite like that....

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

Reid did not get his share of bananas in the deal

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

What's an omg? An 'orrible mag gissie?

ML3

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

gav = bernard manning

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

Americans tend to use "OMG" in that over the top full of shite kind of way that they do....

such as ... "oh my gawsh"

or "shrieks"

"oh my gawd"

think I'm going to be sick...

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

What are you on about Swift? it's not me who's racist....it's the mackems....and especially that Reid chap...

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

Omigod, Roly! Like that is just soooo totally uncool! I'm so sure!

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

I was on a course last week in Dodgertown, Vero Beach, Florida... and some american lady said exactly that too me except she didnt call me Roly... errrr... coz thats not me name...

very good Ciara

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

I watched the little guy play versus our reserves and he looked handy until he got clattered. Far to little to be taken seriously in the prem and he's the wrong colour for Peter Reid.

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

It's all too easy to have a chuckle at Sunderland over this one - so don't let the opportunity pass you by. :-)

Seriously though, it's quite staggering that a club would shell out in excess of £1m and presumably had never seen the player and were basing their decision entirely on the opinion of the vendors? Is this common practice or is Sunderland just badly managed? If it's common practice of course, it might explain one or two of our signings in recent seasons. :-)

Sunderland's attempt to sue is laughable surely? Caveat emptor. "We paid £1.2m your honour because the vendor said he was worth it." Still, despite a slight chuckle at Sunderland's expense, surely it is time for FIFA to kick these bloodsucking vermin (a gent would be a gross misnomer) out of the game. WE pay the money and I want it to go directly to improving the product, without these scumbags creaming off millions and destabilising the game by engineering transfers for their charges at every available opportunity.

As I say this is OUR game. We PAY for it. It is high time, IMHO, that we spent much less time on our petty rivalries between fans and united to tackle this and other concerns. Still a cracking yarn about Sunderand though but. :-)

-- Anonymous, July 02, 2001

The mackems already came up with the best joke about Nunez when they referred to him as the Tic-Tac man. Brilliant.

-- Anonymous, July 04, 2001

why's that Softie, is he fresh for two hours?? nah didn't think so.

-- Anonymous, July 04, 2001

How low can he get, just to get a six foot blonde

-- Anonymous, July 04, 2001

Not sure if you'll have seen the ads TM, but tic-tacs now feature a slogan about being "small but cool" with a black midget in a sharp white suit and wraparound shades who gets all the girls. Very funny.

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001

Wouldn't that reference require makems to own television sets? I guess the footpath in front of Radio Rentals must get busy :-)

-- Anonymous, July 05, 2001