Just behind George Dubya...

Neil · 22/12/2003, 12:42 PM

...in the Award for **** of the Year/Decade....

is:
Alex Ferguson
He is the only sportsperson EVER to demand a fee off GOAL for work he did for a charity event.

**A face** · 22/12/2003, 1:32 PM

Originally posted by Neil
...in the Award for **** of the Year/Decade....

is:
Alex Ferguson
He is the only sportsperson EVER to demand a fee off GOAL for work he did for a charity event.

�68,000 = Half of the money raised, he is really pushing the boat out now. I know the "celebs" are all at it, after dinner speachs etc. but half the fcuking money is too much altogether.

Maybe he is just showing his true colours.

**tiktok** · 22/12/2003, 1:50 PM

it's not like he needs the money or anything.......

then again, i doubt that it came as a surprise to GOAL, any fee would have been agreed beforehand. They might have felt that they would not have raised the 68000 they did get had they gone with another speaker.

**Dodge** · 22/12/2003, 2:19 PM

****.

He got a gift of a shareof horse (settle down with those jokes please) from Magnier which earned him millions but decided to sue for more millions. Ungrateful fool!

He really is the tightest **** in the world by all accounts

**liamon** · 23/12/2003, 9:24 AM

Lads, calm down.
He's Scottish. He can't help it.

Anyway, the fee would be looked upon as just an expense incurred during the process of raising funds. If someone else charged them for the use of a PA system, would they get abuse?

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by liamon
the fee would be looked upon as just an expense incurred during the process of raising funds. If someone else charged them for the use of a PA system, would they get abuse?

In all fairness .... how can you defend his .... i'd say something if his fee was to cover exspences etc. but 68,000 ...... It is a charity event and he is taking them to the cleaners. There is just no way you can defend it.

You cant compare it to a service like a PA system.

**liamon** · 23/12/2003, 10:31 AM

That's not a ridiculous fee for getting a world reknowned person to do a public event. After dinner speakers frequently earn these sorts of fees.

**Dodge** · 23/12/2003, 10:38 AM

Originally posted by liamon
That's not a ridiculous fee for getting a world reknowned person to do a public event. After dinner speakers frequently earn these sorts of fees.

Yeah but apparently he's the first to ever ask Goal for the money...

**liamon** · 23/12/2003, 10:53 AM

But he's Scottish!

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 11:32 AM

Originally posted by liamon
But he's Scottish!

nah ... not good enough, being serious. It just shows what he is made of.

**Macy** · 23/12/2003, 12:03 PM

Totally missed this story? When was the dinner? Was it the one in '99 in the Berkeley Court?

**Macy** · 23/12/2003, 3:09 PM

Since no one has been bothered to back it up, but if this is the one that was in the papers over the weekend, it wasn't for GOAL, it was for some jockey with Cancer. And it was part of his testimonial, and he actually donated money to the charity that he would otherwise have got, not the other way around. I see the Magnier spin doctors are starting....

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 3:36 PM

Sorry, Macy ..... couldn't get back earlier. It was not a horsey thing ... it was goal. Forget his name but he was on the Late Late show late Friday from what i gather. There were loads of other guests there and no of them took the money. This bloke was on the news the other day saying that it was out of order by AF as ano one else took the money and no one ever has in the past.

It could be spin ...... but if the black and white of it is true (no noe in the past took the mulla and he has taken it) then he has gone down in my opinion as a person (not that he was ever up there anyway)

**Macy** · 23/12/2003, 3:43 PM

Just wondering, as I've googled it and can't find any story about Goal and Fergie.....

The only one I've been able to find is the one that was a testimonial dinner for ferguson, from which he donated money to charity.

Anyone got a link to the story?

**Macy** · 23/12/2003, 4:09 PM

Originally posted by Conor74
Could be a stupid **** up, but embarrassing. However, if he didn't pay the gift tax on the horse, he should be jailed/throw away the key/whipped (insert phrase usually reserved for FF politican). Can't have one law for the rich after all Macy...

Well I suppose it will be hard to prove, either....

If he is proven to have a avoided tax obviously he should be made pay the sums and the associated penalities. However, the horse wasn't worth �100 million when he recieved the gift, and since he's not elected to serve the public I don't think he can be classed in the same bracket as those gangsters you support...