got to laugh at kevin mitchell

Lou Savarese fight was talked about for Airdrie- FACT

 

:rofl

I also heard a rumour he was fighting at our local swimming baths in 03, never happened though..Gutteed!!

 

Against all 30 season ticket holders back to back

 

It has 4 stands.
The chairman doesn't own the stadium therefore he'd have **** all to do with offering it for free.
Feel free to offer up any more ill informed bull ****.

 

Why did they choose Hampden instead?

 

Byline: HUGH KEEVINS

AIRDRIE'S under-fire liquidators KPMG KPMG turned their backs on a pounds 200,000 windfall that could have helped cure the club's financial worries.

The Lanarkshire club are living under a death sentence and will be finished in the eyes of the Scottish League unless a buyer is found for Airdrie within the next seven days.

But boxing promoter Alex Morrison if they'd been allowed to stage Mike Tyson's fight with Lou Savarese

The joint venture would have given Airdrie more money in one night than they would have taken from a full season of home games in the First Division.

But Morrison was shocked by the discourteous treatment he received at the hands of Blair Nimmo, the KPMG spokesman who's been at loggerheads
with Steve Archibald since the former Scotland internation-alist first tried to buy the debt-ridden club.

Airdrie have been in liquidation for 13 months but Morrison claims KPMG failed the club's creditors by overlooking a considerable sum of revenue that could have been made off the publicity surrounding 'Iron Mike.'

He said: "Rangers had turned down the chance to stage the Tyson fight because Dick Advocaat didn't want anything to affect the growth of the grass during the close season.

"I had been to Hampden to look at the facilities there but I told Frank that there was a lot of good to be done by helping out a club like Airdrie.

"They would have taken a minimum of pounds 200,000 from ground rent and corporate hospitality boxes and everyone would have had a deal to be pleased with.

"But when I made contact with KPMG I was soon made to feel like a leper
I was making numerous calls for a week and getting no reply from Nimmo.

"I think that his secretary was embarassed by the silent treatment I was getting. Even my written faxes were ignored.

"I felt as if I was the one who was trying to borrow money from KPMG instead of being the one who was trying to give Airdrie a small fortune."

Morrison was eventually forced to abandon his gesture to Airdrie and move the Tyson fight to the National Stadium, where it was watched by 24,000.

But he remains angered by the snub he received from the firm whose business conduct has constantly been criticised by Archibald.

Morrison said: "The publicity that would have been generated by Tyson fighting in Airdrie could have alerted businessmen throughout Britain to the club's availability on the market."

Airdrie will go to the wall if they fail to fulfil their fixture at Alloa next Saturday because the Scottish League will no longer be able to tolerate a non-playing club holding membership of the governing body

Archibald is believed to have been in Barcelona in midweek while trying to find additional finance for his takeover bid.

The former Nou Camp player has said that there could be areas of mutual interest if the Catalan club get involved with Airdrie as a feeder club.

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Ok whatever. It has 4 stands (must average 150 fans per stand per game then)

Whoever owns the rights to ground has offered it for free. Why? Because it is in such high demand?

 

East tiger!! OK it was talked about. :good

 

uuuuuurrrrrrr - 17,000 at airdrie:think? i think you might struggle...........

http://www.scottishgrounds.co.uk/airdrie_united.htm

where you going to put the other 7000 billy??

west ham on the other hand does certainly hold 17.000+

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think it's probably true to say that you aren't destined for a career in mathematics:good

 

The only open one stand unless we are playing someone who will bring a big support or their is the likliehood of trouble.
Because it would bring in massive revenue.

 

I'd say you could perhaps put them on the pitch!!! or you going to have 10,000 in the stands watching it 2 ****s go at it in the centre circle?

 

Anybody else see the irony in this post from Billy?

The other day he makes a post criticizing Eddie Hearn for essentially not getting his fighters easy enough pay days.

Then he finds it totally unreasonable his fighter should fight away despite the fact that the evidence suggests Kevin Mitchell is a bigger ticket seller and would make more money if the fight is at Upton Park than in Scotland where Ricky has sold tickets his family and thats about it.

Interesting Billy, keep tieing yourselfs in knots eh!

 

In Airdrie probably 60% of people support Rangers, 30% Celtic and 10% Airdrie. So the attendance of Airdrie is hardly a good indicator.

 

burns is the champion ,and this should be were he wants it .i think its arrogent of mithcell and ****** to expect it to be down south tbh, which is asahme as i like mithcell . this fight could be heald at airdrie,but if your talking stadiums i think Celtic park would be ideal if you put the ring in the corner ,you have two tiers around it for most of it ,everyone would get a great view and you could do pitch seating aswell .it reasonably priced it could sell well and you wouldent have the same complaints about it as you would if it was at a dump like west ham stadium

 

How many pay good money to travel all that way to Glasgow to watch their teams play then?

If the answer is none, what makes you think they will pay to watch boxing?

If the answer is a lot, why wouldn't the fight make more sense in a Glaswegian stadium/arena with better facilities, transport etc.

Airdrie makes no sense whatsoever for this fight.