Eddie Thompson
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"Edward Henry "Eddie" Thompson" Order of the British Empire/OBE was a Scottish businessman, he was the chairman of Scottish association football/football club Dundee United F.C./Dundee United and a well-known figure in the Scottish retail industry.

Thompson died of prostate cancer on 15 October 2008.

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I deliberately put the issue of the manager out of my head as I wanted to concentrate on staying in the Premierleague first, but starting from tomorrow we can consider where we go. Gordon has done an excellent job for us.

The situation is that we have this first game which we are playing in Finland and then the second leg, ... Obviously we lose money coming out here - it'll cost us tens of thousands of pounds just to bring the club out. It depends on what kind of gate we get when we get back to Tannadice, and that depends on what kind of result we get tomorrow night.

Mr Romanov was not wanting to take the club off my hands but he was wanting to buy a share in the club, ... His idea at that time was to bring in some players and sell them on. But he has gone a lot further at Hearts and there is no doubt the players he is bringing in look exceptional.

I'm an expert on the MacVac.

You can see you're doing something constructive.

One day just over five years ago, Danny (Dad) came to see me. He said he had sold his bass boat and equipment. He had decided he was meant to serve the Lord on Saturdays. He wanted to start a Saturday Sunday school for children in a low-income area of Memphis.

We've all be impressed with the way Gordon has conducted himself. I'm delighted he has accepted the manager's job.

We have agreed the fee with Celtic and Mark passed his medical this morning.