Nice one Teddy!

Yes, I think the Keynsian thing to do would be to spend money on the stand in the belief that the state (or club in this case) would grow in income terms to such an extent that it wouldn't matter what debt we accrued in the process, and that we could, and should, continue to spend in that way.

From what I understand Keynes was a genius who possibly did more for the rapid increase in standards of living in the second half of the last century than anyone else apart from Steve Coppell.

Good time to kick off though surely?

I think it was Andy Thorn who said 'It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.'

He wouldn't have taken any of Van Aanholts nonsense.

I confess this thread has left me trailing in it's wake. Couldn't possibly make a useful contribution.

So I'll leave it to a hero of mine, with his excellent word craft, to contribute his tuppence worth:

"Where black is the colour, where none is the number,
An' I'll tell it and speak it and think it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it"
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Dad and I watched games standing on the muddy slope of the Holmesdale Road end. He cheered and I rattled.

It was queueing up in the p****g rain for the Palace urinals that made me understand that Sartre's 'rues de liberte' was an allegory of man's search for commitment.