Andy Carroll’s latest non-performance in Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat at Fulham last night got Football Burp wondering: what else can thirty-five million of the Queen’s pounds get you these days? And so, we bring you twenty recent examples of Things That Cost the Same as Andy Carroll…
1. Contraception for women in the third world…
www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/nov/29/uk-pledge-money-for-family-planning
2. One year’s worth of agency staff for West Midlands Councils…
www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/12/04/councils-spend-35m-on-agency-workers/
3. A student housing block in Leicester…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-15882406
4. A world class university campus in Dubai…
www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2011/11/03100444
5. A National Theatre construction contract…
construction-manager.co.uk/news/lendlease-wins-35m-national-theatre-contract/
6. 100,000 square feet of hi-tech company space at Birmingham Science Park Aston…
www.constructionenquirer.com/2011/11/18/developer-wanted-to-build-35m-science-park/
7. An environmentally friendly factory in Derbyshire/some badly needed good PR for Nestle…
www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Business-News/Nestle-invests-35M-in-green-factory
8. An “electrification train”…
9. An architecturally unsound school in Telford…
www.shropshirestar.com/news/2011/12/03/fresh-plans-after-canopy-collapse-at-35m-school/
10. A state-of-the-art redevelopment of the “S-shaped building” on Manchester Piccadilly Station approach…
www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/archive/10658-realty-moves-closer-on-35m-gateway-house-plans.html
11. A Waitrose-funded distribution centre in the Chorley and South Ribble area…
www.chorley-guardian.co.uk/news/local/35m_waitrose_plan_is_launched_1_3904371
12. The Stamp Duty tax deficit…
www.ifaonline.co.uk/ifaonline/news/2120835/hmrc-chasing-gbp35m-stamp-duty-avoidance
13. A marginally warmer service sector…
sheffieldismyplanet.co.uk/news/2011/11/one-degree-%C2%A335m
14. The entire stakes of care homes operator Southern Cross in 2007…
citywire.co.uk/money/saturday-papers-southern-cross-chiefs-netted-35m-money-and-other-news/a496576
15. Product placement in the US version of The X Factor…
www.metro.co.uk/tv/851092-simon-cowell-in-35m-pepsi-deal-for-us-x-factor
16. A Scotland Yard office block in the heart of the Whitehall secure zone…
17. The cancellation of an interest rate swap with National Australia Bank…
www.insidermedia.com/insider/north-west/62364-assura-35m-rights-issue/index.html
18. A national holiday in Cornwall…
lansonboy.blogspot.com/2011/11/st-pirans-day-holiday-could-be-worth.html
19. A major European manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients…
20. A catering and hospitality contract at all the sites of T-Mobile/Orange joint venture Everything Everywhere…
Do you know of anything else that cost the same as Andy Carroll? Have your say in the comments section below…