The 4hr Interview with Ellis Short

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Fulwell73 filmed a big interview with Ellis Short about Sunderland, but never used it - here's why

Ellis Short was the owner of Sunderland AFC when the club agreed to be the subject of a Netflix documentary, but they didn't use an in-depth interview
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I said all along that Short might have put loads of money in, but he had no idea what he was doing, and that this money was totally wasted due to a long line of bad decisions.
Seems the lads at Fullwell73 came to the same conclusion:

""An hour and a half later and we're still talking in detail about all of his mistakes in his time at the club, and that conversation was all driven by him. He knew he had a made a mess of it, but by this point he just did not know how to get out of it."

So pleased that he was able to hand the club to someone else. I really hope Donald and his team stay on at the club in a meaningful way - they know football, and they know SAFC.
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Kid Galahad said:
Never had any ill will against him and always thought his heart was in the right place, it's who he trusted with his millions that really piss me off.
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I'm not afraid to admit I did, massively. I hated him as I watched my club flushing down the toilet.

STID opened my eyes to the latter issues, but I think it also made it obvious how badly run things were. For him to not only wipe out the debt but clearly feel so badly now only shows I was wrong about his character.
 
Fetch Fletch said:
I'm not afraid to admit I did, massively. I hated him as I watched my club flushing down the toilet.

STID opened my eyes to the latter issues, but I think it also made it obvious how badly run things were. For him to not only wipe out the debt but clearly feel so badly now only shows I was wrong about his character.
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The fact our scouting team had Ibrahimovic as an option to sign pretty much sums up how badly people were running the club for him.
 
T_Bone said:
An honourable man in the end.
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I was screwing with him by the end, when he was not interested or here etc but after he did what he did regarding the debt and the takeover, well i was shocked to the core TBH. I thought we were doomed as a club at one stage financially. Now we're are on the verge of this........it's crazy it really is
 
Seen him once outside the stadium was round the main entrance with work and he turned up with his entourage.

Lass with a charity bucket for girl guides shook the bucket and asked if he'd donate. Ellis, pretty coolly now I think about it, takes out his wallet, peels out a crisp fifty and puts it in the bucket and delivers a fabulous line in his Texan drawl

'Where I come from if you donate to girl scouts you get a box o' cookies'

Lass turns to me and my mate and asks who it is because he'd just given fifty quid... hadn't a scooby who he was :lol:

Nowt to do with the thread but thought I'd share
 
Taffyduck said:
I always defended him on here and got shot down.

His heart was in the right place and he lost a shit load of money trying.
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His appointments of key personnel were horrendous.
Seaham Towny said:
Seen him once outside the stadium was round the main entrance with work and he turned up with his entourage.

Lass with a charity bucket for girl guides shook the bucket and asked if he'd donate. Ellis, pretty coolly now I think about it, takes out his wallet, peels out a crisp fifty and puts it in the bucket and delivers a fabulous line in his Texan drawl

'Where I come from if you donate to girl scouts you get a box o' cookies'

Lass turns to me and my mate and asks who it is because he'd just given fifty quid... hadn't a scooby who he was :lol:

Nowt to do with the thread but thought I'd share
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Thank god that he said a box of cookies.
 
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Fetch Fletch said:
I'm not afraid to admit I did, massively. I hated him as I watched my club flushing down the toilet.

STID opened my eyes to the latter issues, but I think it also made it obvious how badly run things were. For him to not only wipe out the debt but clearly feel so badly now only shows I was wrong about his character.
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I was well in the Short out camp, if I'd known he was probably more pissed off with the whole thing than us I would have acted differently.

Would be canny to see him back in a few years watching us having a go at the right end of the PL with his son.
 
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