Just been watching Blackadder goes forth and realised who General Melchett's barmy tactics and decisions remind me of.......
When all this blows over, this single moment will go down as possibly the greatest in Not606 history. Del-boy couldnt have put it any better.
As a Businessman, please square this staement, "When we acquired the football club we made it clear we would run it in accordance with sound and proper business principles and procedures." with p*ssing off your customers with a passion and a vengeance. If cutns could fly the Allams would be at least Wing Commanders.
That's not entirely true, I've always said Assem was bonkers, he's just turned out to be even more bonkers than I thought he was. What I contested, was the nonsense about him wanting to build a housing estate down Walton Street and opinion certainly hasn't changed. The fact is that he did save the club and for that I remain grateful, unfortunately, he now seems intent on ****ing it all up again.
And whenever anyone questionned his lack of backing for Nick in the transfer market you towed the line about him investing £51m and that being enough, whereas now you're criticising him for his farcical token backing of Nick in January.
I didn't seriously think it was an option. But what if we all get together, look down the backs of sofas etc. and our collective wealth will surely be enough to overthrow the Allams!
Every bad Chairman, politician, businessman and general ****o in history uses this line "I saved you". It engenders submission and a feeling of indebtedness. There are still people who let Bates off the leash because he 'saved' us, and people who made apologies for Briatore at QPR because he did the same, and so on. 'Bout time the fans started running football in this country. I used to think you were a great example of a club with local owners who cared about the club and the city, investing sensibly but not disproportionately in the team and generally looking like you were playing securely above your level. But greed and power yet again corrupt.
I made it quite clear on here that Nick didn't get the backing he wanted in January, I did say that considering they'd bunged in over £50m already, that was fair enough, they just shouldn't have said they were going to back him in the press conference when he took the job. Subsequently, they've sacked the best football man at the club and sacked a popular manager and there's other things that are yet to come out which are equally clueless. Has my opinion on them changed? Yes, they quite obviously don't know what they're doing. But I certainly never thought Assem was an angel, I am well aware of his previous business dealings, I'm aware that he's awkward and unreasonable. None of that is a surprise, what is a surprise, is that someone who by his own admission knows **** all about football, just sacked one of the best in the business.
I hate mentioning it but this has reminded me of comments Lloyd made around 1998 about how he's put £2million into the club, yet all City fans are totally ungrateful to him. And how he would not be putting 1p more into it etc. I know we're not at those depths at the moment and I'm probably just paranoid. But still, it sort of seems eerily familiar.
I really dont know but I should! I thought it was like 'towing on a tow rope / line'. Why would it be someone's toe?
