Evening haddocks - first of all what a great season it has been so far. Now have any of you seen this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43307301 Fecking disgusting - They probably want to build sky scrapers that real Londoners can’t afford and sell them to foreign investors that will let them out on ludicrously high rents. Greedy bastards = but to take their name as well
Yeah it’s nothing short of a disgrace. The trademark issue is crazy - how someone/thing could be that petty publicity is astounding. Hopefully they end up landing on their feet, the hamlet is always a good day out.
Copyrighting their name, even a nickname, and refusing to let them use it is despicable. The gradual gentrification of the whole of London - of which this is a prime example - is equally deplorable, and nothing less than a long term form of social cleansing on a massive scale. Working class people are being removed from areas where their families have lived for generations, to make way for the rich. Low paid, unskilled jobs such as cleaning and domestic services are increasingly being performed by trafficked slaves. Brexit won't curb this kind of immigration because it is outside the law. London is becoming more and more like parts of the Middle East, where the wealthy own everything and the poor have nothing - not even legal status as citizens. Clubs like Dulwich Hamlet, Millwall and Charlton are being cleansed as well in order to become part of the new socially exclusive London. Life long fans are being pushed out, to be replaced by corporate hospitality absentees, wealthy casual customers and tourists. More grounds will be lost to developers including the Valley, it is only a matter of time. Football Clubs with six or seven generations of history will die, replaced by sport-themed leisure centres that use their names and badges as sentimental advertising to attract gym-obsessed bio-degradable yuppies. But just because it's inevitable, it doesn't mean we have to roll over and take it without protest. I hope Dulwich Hamlet does find a way to continue without becoming nothing more than Meadow's plaything.
I’ve been Tweeting my support of the Dulwich Hamlet guys for weeks, & have suggested Charlton have a pre season friendly against them this summer with the gate receipts going directly to the Hamlet fans. A group of their fans also came up to Parliament this week. These clubs are the lifeblood of our rich heritage of South London football & we all need to do what we can to help them at this time.
Hamlet stopped hosting Charlton as they were tight fisted with the gate when KM was in control. Think she insisted on 50/50 if memory serves - did the samd to Welling too.
The vermin has all but gone now, hopefully our new owner can be more generous with Hamlet this summer. Lose these clubs at your peril.
More bad news for them as Allassani was stretchered off with possible broken ribs. Beat Billericay away though. Hope the RA injury doesn’t affect his transfer fee, as it’s apparent the club will need all the money they can get.
Outrageous behaviour, a perfect example of the rapacious greed of these soul-less types, who have the money to do what they like, and the arrogance not to care who they do it to. 'Onest 'Arry is doing something similar in Bournemouth. I know nothing about Meadow, but I would be surprised if they are not an offshore company.
Meadow are despicable, but the council could be more open themselves. Around Champion Hill there is already tons of social housing - just opposite the ground you have hundreds of flats (ironically they sold a bunch off): The club is caught in a tug of war and right now they are the main losers.
Khan is about as much use as a one- legged man in a bum kicking contest. Trust him to think he is jumping on the bandwagon at the 11th hour. When the bulldozers hit Hamlet’s ground, Khan will be outside posing for a selfie. Where are your statutory powers in this case mate ?
Khan is a waste of space. The whole 'Mayor of London' freakshow is a combination of tourist gimmick and a scapegoat for local & national politicians' favourite game of 'pass the buck'. Talk talk talk. Never actually does anything.
MeToo. I don't know where London is heading though. When I first came down I got a job labouring straight away, and a bedsit in Camden Town for a year. Then a bedsit in Clapham for a year before ending up in SE London. That was a different London, and it's difficult to predict the permanent effect of all this gentrification.
Gentrification is only part of the problem to be fair. London is now chock full of scumbags. Not working - just loitering, begging and committing crime. I reckon I get stopped 5-10 times every day in Central London for “spare change”. These people should NOT be here ! Let’s just hope they don’t breed.
There were no beggars when I first came down, that started in the eighties. Apparently they often make about £40 a day. I never give to them, although I do buy the Big Issue. It's a good read, and it gives a hand up to those who are prepared to work.
