Straw Poll

These were the results of last week's straw poll.

Do you think ADUG's takeover of Manchester City is good or bad for the game:

Good: 33% (9 votes)
Bad: 67% (18 votes)

These are a selection of the comments suggesting it was good for the game:

"Kenyon and Abramovich are classless chavs and their club behaves accordingly - no grace or style and sulking humourless oafs. Seeing a bagman like Kenyon getting medals on the pitch with the players in the Champs League final was dreadful and compared horribly with Man U and true english hero Bobby Charlton. Its great to see them lose out and look like the second rate bullies they are." Martin Singleton.

"Good, well not actually good but not necessarily bad. It's no different to any other takeover, United and Chelsea are not exactly owned by Unicef and Amnesty International." Huw Thomas.

"Yes for English Football - possibly not good for Manchester where the has historically only been one real team. Message from friend of mine - In Brazil, United are known as Manchester as no one has heard of City. I think Robinho is in for a shock!!" Mark Simmons

"Good - brings best players in the World to England." Rod Munden

"City's propensity for shambles will remain despite the money pouring in - they are bound to buy loads of duffers (remember Malcolm Allison's tremendous waste of money in the 70's?) and they won't ever win anything serious but they will upset many of the also-rans e.g. Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham etc who think that they will be the next big thing." Singleton again.

And these were some saying it wasn't good:

"Bad – we will see less and less English qualified players in the Premier League and more overseas mercenaries! We are already seeing the effect of this as England struggle to beat Andorra – pathetic!" Francey

"Definately Bad, soon there will be no Top English Clubs in British Control. Having said that, if it brings in cash to spend on players and success, then I guess supporters will be happy short term. But do we really know these guys long term intentions etc - leave dbt ridden clubs when they move onto some other pet project/hobby." Alex Boswell

"Bad - cos I'm fed up of Premier League primadona nonsense that relates not a jot to the football of yesteryear in the good old days!" Rob Munden

"Bad - cos they didn't buy Leeds when we needed them!!!!!" Rob Munden obviously

"Very Bad. What English Football needs is more Americans. I hear the following are interested: Mark Cuban, George W. - he'll be bored come January and T Boone Pickens." John Littig