Latest - taken from a Blackpool fan forum. You won't believe this mates! Desperate stuff ... "Up to now most fans threatened with legal action regarding comments made on this forum and other forms of social media have only received letters of pre action . As you may have recently read on other posts one of our fellow posters has now received documents from the Oystons' solicitors which require him to fill in earnings and assets to be presented to the courts as well as a request to submit his defence . They have also paid the court fees for £610 to take the poster concerned to the High Court in Manchester with a claim lodged for up to £50,000 each for John Owen Oyston, Karl Samuel Oyston and Blackpool Football Club Limited .One of the ludicrous claims the solicitors have made is that the comments made by this fan have, amongst other claims for damages, hit this years season ticket sales. Our request for help is for anyone reading this message board who didn't renew this season, e-mails on the following address a quick resume as to why they didn't renew. Possible reasons may include a lack of investment over the past few seasons, being treated with contempt by the present owners, having only 8 players up to a week before the season started, pre season training tour cancelled etc etc etc. This in effect will show any judge preciding that to make a claim for these damages is ridiculous to say the least. Many thanks for your time and if any other fans have received a summons that we don't know about that these emails may also help please let us know on the below email address." [email protected]
Are we signing this petition because of: a) the way Karl Oyston is running Blackpool FC (say, suggesting a silly new name or a change of club colours); b) the fact that he's generally a bit of a ****, or; c) the way he responded to a complete stranger acquiring his phone number and sending him a text? If it's a) I'll sign. If it's b) I might sign. If it's c) it just highlights what a ****ing absurd world we now live in.
Is it the sole purpose of the Blackpool Supporters trust to drive out the family who have owned the club for decades? Or do they do other stuff as well? If supporters trusts are the way to drive out club owners perhaps someone round these parts should consider forming one. Oh wait a minute!! #****laskTillWeDie
If our owner was Karl Oyston, I've no doubt there woukd be an Oyston Out campaign. The bloke is a cancer on their club, when they got to the Premier League, instead of buying anyone to try and stay there(other than DJ Campbell for £1.2m), he paid £11m to his dad(who'd just got out of prison for rape) and £26m to other Oyston-owned companies. He didn't even fund their promotion to the Premier League, that was Belokon, who ended up getting shafted as he only owned 20% of the club. Anyone who's happy to see another club's fans getting shafted like this, isn't much of a football fan.
I'm sure there would be a campaign to get him out, no doubt backed by the Fxxkwit supporters federation. How he can be a cancer of the club he owns is lost on me tbh, if the individual revenue streams don't like the way he runs the club they can Fxxk off as far as I am concerned, not that I am especially. When they got to the premier league, instead of paying mercenary Fxxkwits, has beens and never wozzers tens of thousands of pounds a week to piss up the sea front, they stuck with the players on an average of a miserable 8k a week who had taken them there, the evil bastards. He actually paid £11 million pounds out of the Premier league money into a ring fenced trust fund (in the name of Owen Oyston) for the benefit of Blackpool Football club and it is doubtful they will ever have to look down the back of a settee to find enough coin to buy a Jay Simpson type player. Blackpool will never face the prospect of bankruptcy or liquidation while they are at the helm and there will always be a team for the fans to watch. His father Owen Oyston was released from prison in 1999 (hardly just out of prison by any stretch of the imagination) and the money that was paid to other Oyston companies was mostly debt repayment. These evil bastards had financed the club at a loss for many a long year, improved the ****hole that was Bloomfield road beyond all recognition from the tip it was when I first started visiting in the 70's, brought players and managers in over the years and took the club to the premier league. Then they had the incredible cheek to want some of the money back. What massive cnut's eh? If a 20% shareholder can get shafted in the way you suggest,(he did) that does not strike me as a ringing endorsement for a shareholding supporters trust. What makes you think anything would be different for a "trust". I do not actually see how they are getting shafted and I may well be a poor football fan in your eyes simply because I fail to see what the problem is. In short, to all those Blackpool fans who still attend games because they always have and always will, I doff my cap. For those who pay good money to enter the ground and line the pockets of the very person they are protesting about my advice would be, pack it in spoiling the football for the proper fans you hissy fitting little screamers, take your fxxkwittery where it belongs, the internet.
You made some decent points, but I'm afraid the bit above is bollocks, the money was paid directly to Owen Oysten as a salary, his son tried to justify it later by saying that if the club needed money 'I am sure my father will lend it to the club interest-free, as he always has over 25 years of ownership, but frankly after the way he has supported the club all these years, if it was an £11m salary to my father, so what?'
That seems fair enough to me . http://www.theguardian.com/sport/da...12/mar/06/blackpool-karl-oyston-players-wages "I am stubborn, I just won't blow the club's money, so we had a big cash surplus," he argues. "If I had spent the £11m on players' wages, nobody would be complaining, but that money would be gone to Ferrari dealers and whatever else players spend it on. So many clubs have fallen into financial trouble by paying players too much – I don't see a massive queue of ex-Portsmouth players lining up at Fratton Park to help Portsmouth now."
I have some sympathy with his thoughts on player wages and agents fees, but there's a difference between making sure you're not ripped off and not even trying to be competitive in the league that is giving you all that money. I think they've changed the rules now, so if you just take the money and run, without putting together a competitive Premier League squad, they can withdraw the parachute payments.
So, which is worse? An owner like ours, who IS spending money on his club, but who has absolutely no understanding of how important its name is to those who have traditionally supported it, or Oyston?
