Agreed. Happy - I'd love to know how you interpret the quote I highlighed in my previous post? What do you make of his claims that we aren't a local club - I'm sure you won't try to deny he's saying he doesn't need the fans?
I'm not going to let this article distract me from the immense occasion that we are all about to experience - we have kept our name and we are in the FA Cup Final! That' s all we need to focus on at the moment.
What the **** is wrong with this bloke? The best season in our history, about to play in our most important game ever and he can't keep his gob shut!! He talks about dictatorships and why he fled his Country. Really? Can't he grasp the irony? He really can't help himself can he? He's got to make this great Club look ****ing stupid!!!
An owner who always try to overshadow his team. An owner who always speaks out before a big game, turning the attention on himself....mmm....as a Cardiff fan why do I find this familiar ?? (I see chilling similarities with Cardiff and I hope I'm wrong for your sakes)
There is nothing new in this article though is there. I am not defending him, but if he gets asked the questions he gives the answers.
Quite a few business people (not saying all) have a huge ego even if those same people often like to claim humble origins. Such self-promoters do indeed like to make it all about themselves. He says he takes all responsiblity, that's bull****. You rarely see those at the top of businesses take full responsibility, they delegate it out to all those below them who then take the blame if anything goes wrong. In a football club the players and the coaching staff always shoulder the responsibility. And to say that the club nearly went out of existence which he always says ignores the truth with football. Clubs can actually bounce back even if they restart from scratch as both Newport and Wimbledon showed. Wimbledon of course had their club taken from them according to the theory that I'd guess Allam subscribes to that a club is an owner's to do as he wants. But owners come and go and a club without roots is weak and it takes years to build up any kind of local loyalty, it's not something that can be bought it needs a history/tradition to be built up.
Don't you think the old blokes mebbe just getting on a bit ? Dementia setting in ? That's not meant as an insult, he just says crazy things. What if he's just losing it ?
For once, you're making sense. The next owner will have to rebuild a fanbase that the current one has lost, repair bridges with the Council etc The current owner sees our club as his toy, his ego vehicle, his passport to the top table. He is clueless about running a football club. He has ruined our best ever season.
It's something I've considered too. To be so detached from logic and expert advice (all the marketing boffs who wrote articles). Then seemingly submitting a request to the FA with little or no commercial evidence to support him. To still be maintaining that the name change is a preferable or viable solution, is the rambling of an incredibly arrogant or ill man. A) Massive ego B) Stubborn to a fault C) Dementia D) All of the above
Thank you BFT, i am actually serious, it's difficult to say something like that without anyone thinking your just having another dig. But all that "anyone who knows me, will tell you i never go back on my word" and then he goes back on his word every single time, business ? This dictator stuff now ? He clearly doesn't see the glaring hypocrisy.
The press love this and press him for a story before a big game. He cannot resist as loves his profile ever increasing
The article makes it sound like he's more interested in his squash tournament than the FA Cup final. It makes you wonder why he even bought into a football club in the first place. Out of the goodness of his own heart? I doubt it. Millionaires buy into football normally to give themselves a bit more publicity, in the long term term they probably hope nationally but in the short term they might just want to be big locally. I guess that's part of the power struggle with the council as well, he wants to be seen as the person in power. He's still a relatively small fish in a big pond in football, maybe he reconciles that by preoccupying himself with squash, where he can be a big fish in a small pond.
