With credit to the Gruniard as per usual Quote of the week Karl Oyston: found to have“illegitimately stripped” Blackpool of £26.77m. The ruling came 10 months after he called fans protesting about asset-stripping “a busted flush … I’m sure they’ll get bored in time. You can only go on so long trotting out the same tired rhetoric. They’re naive, child-like … I pity them.” • Oyston’s other best efforts to change the narrative since 2014: calling a fan “a massive ****** … special needs fuctard”; pledging to ban protestors “unless they sign acceptable behaviour orders”; and calling for more respect for his family’s “loyalty and commitment to the club … My father’s a manic Blackpool fan, and he suffers when the club’s not doing well. It really affects him.” • Owen Oyston’s view in May last year on the family’s image: “People think we’re asset-stripping, taking money out – it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s a pack of lies – it’s the kind of media attacks we’ve had. The media never let the truth interfere with a good story.” His message to fans: “Financially we’ve been a huge success.” Meanwhile Yet to work out its line on the case – the EFL: still “reviewing the high court’s decision”. Among the EFL board members in charge of governance during the period when Blackpool were being stripped: Karl Oyston – elected for a third term in 2013, serving to 2015. • Leading the praise for Oyston’s re-election in 2013 – then-EFL chairman, now FA chairman Greg Clarke: “It’s a pleasure to welcome Karl back to the board. Over the coming years his experience will be invaluable in shaping our organisation.” Win of the week Brazil: Vasco president Eurico Miranda, 73 – re-elected on a traditional values ticket, including: “Football is a man thing. That’s why I’m against gays and women.” Miranda denied “sad claims” he rigged the vote with a “suspect ballot box”: “This was all done with the greatest transparency, including the adding up.” • His other headline policy, set out in February: “I’m against gay referees. I’ve got nothing against gays, just ***s, the flamboyant ***s, all full of themselves. They’re going to be biased for the players they fancy.” Quote of the week Gianni Infantino on this month’s Fifa trials in the US: “These are cases of the past. These things couldn’t happen again.” Infantino, who sacked the ethics team investigating him in May, told media: “We used to be a toxic brand … Now we’re more transparent.” Meanwhile: best timing 27 Oct: Infantino praises India’s FA head Praful Patel for introducing Fifa “values” to Indian football: “I have a feeling that India is now a football country.” 31 Oct: Patel barred from office by Delhi’s high court over alleged electoral irregularities. He denies wrongdoing. Most misunderstood Ex-Cayman Islands FA general secretary Costas Takkas – jailed for 15 months for laundering Fifa bribes, despite his lawyer defending him as “a little bit of a Peter Pan. A kind, sweet, gentle, honourable man.” Takkas told court: “It’s not in my nature to cause harm. I love the game of football.” Coolest head 23 October: Sunderland chief executive Martin Bain, urging fans to lay off Simon Grayson: “I look at my calendar and I see it’s only October. We’re in October, there’s a long way to go.” 31 October: Sacks him. • Giving Bain a lift last week amid mounting criticism from fans: the Football Business Awardsnight in London: please log in to view this image Football Biz Awards @footiebizawards Congratulations winners of Best Fan Engagement by a Club @SunderlandAFC Most grown up Switzerland: Sion president Christian Constantin – banned for 14 months for beating a pitchside TV pundit who called him “a narcissist with zero empathy” – ready to sit down with Rolf Fringer for clear-the-air talks. “We can settle this out of court. We are 60-year-old men, let’s solve it, move on.” Although: “Someone will have to make the first move, and that someone is him. He started it.” Most got at Italy: Antonio Colantonio, president of Serie D Turris Calcio, upset after the league banned midfielder Giovanni Liberti for “urinating in the direction of the away end while making vulgar gestures at his genital organ”. Colantonio: “Once again, we find ourselves faced with injustice. The player was adjusting his shirt.”
Have always read the Guardian, ever since I was a bairn. Used to be fascinated by all the big words, like the name, the Whitley Bay Guardian.
Yes, I thought this would be a quote competition, where we had to guess who said "I like inserting pineapples up my bottom" and other such quotes. I'm disappointed it's not.
It’s unbelievable how half of the people in power in football manage to cling on limpet like to the power they have acquired and the said and done column constantly highlights their “shortcomings “ in contrast to the rest of the world.
If anybody else had said that, it would have very sensible. But the irony of corrupt 'Trev the Cheat' making such statements??
