Basket case of a club, great statement on their website. http://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/article/club-statement-jose-riga-2044877.aspx
Oyston is every fans' nightmare as a chairman. How the fans tolerate him and his family I don't know. He's blatantly milking the club and using loopholes to transfer the profits to his son's company. I hope the fans do whatever they can to rid their club of this leech, just as Carlisle fans did with Michael Knighton, another odious chairman bordering on the criminal.
he should never have gone there. We should have kept him. Oyston is not a fit and proper person to do card tricks on Blackpool pier, let alone run their club. I feel sorry for their fans.
He was promised funds etc, but it never materialised. If their takeover goes through I would not be surprised if he ends up back there.
I have no sympathy for the prat at all. I and many others posted that he would be gone by January at the latest. He could only have gone there for one of three reasons: 1) He was so arrogant and self-deluded, puffed up by all the fanboys at Charlton after a few wins, that he thought he knew better than anyone else about English football and could produce the sort of miracle which only occurs in American sports films. He now knows that the Championship is a world removed from the Mickey Mouse continental leagues he is used to, where phoneys like Tucudean, Bulot and Parzyszek are considered superstars. 2) Although any eight-year-old kid with a superficial knowledge of football knows what sort of odious slimeballs the Oystons are, and knows that Blackpool are a basket-case and and absolute certainties for relegation, he failed to do any basic research on the club. The fact he is their sixth manager in less than two years should have been one hint. The fact that not even Div One and Div Two managers wanted to double their salaries and take the job was another. 3) He planned the whole thing from the start. He knew he would soon get sacked and contracted a nice little pay-off in that eventuality. No idea which one is the case but none of them reflect well on him. I am desperately sorry for the fans. A mild reproach from me for our present and previous owners may have occasionally arisen from my keyboard, but trust me, I am always thankful that I was not born to support Blackpool or Leeds (and there are a few other clubs not much better off). The real villains here are the gutless, greedy and corrupt FA and Premiership. They could put an end to it immediately by ruling that no owners are allowed to take out more than they put in. Maybe a lot less money would flood into football, but is that a bad thing? Football clubs have to be run as businesses, but they are not normal businesses competing in the market. They each have a captive clientele. It is disgraceful that the Oystons are allowed to defraud theirs. No doubt the Belgian Beast will be sacking some Head Coach at one of his clubs soon, for forgetting to fax off the weekend teamsheet for RD's approval, so I expect Riga will find another soft billet.
RD did not want him. There was never any chance of his being appointed permanently. For months all the ass-kissers on this and other boards were assuming he was a shoe-in. I consistently posted that he would not be appointed even when he was winning matches. This was so obvious to me I was amazed others could not read the signs.
Of which I was definitely one. Riga was getting the best out of players like Sordell, the Harriotts, Morrison, Fox, and we were winning games with teams made up 50% of our own Academy graduates. I also felt more confident of keeping Poyet with Riga at the helm, because of the respect the players had for him. This was a short period of genuine optimism for me.
Another example of the inept governance of the Football League. How FFS is Oyston a 'fit and proper person' to run a football club? The Latvian co -owner has alleged that Oyston has taken just about all of their Sky Premier league money...and paid it to himself.
I liked Riga but agree with Eddie here, he walked on water because he was the perfect replacement for Powell. Presentable, suit wearing, and appealed to the closet homosexuals. A scotch egg could have done a better job than Powell but Riga thought he was the next Jose, he wasn't, he just did a better job than POWELL.
Riga's sacking takes it to 23 managerial sackings in England so far this season, and it's only October. I wonder if the total will reach 50 by 2015? Or 92 by the end of the season, average one per club?
http://www.teamtalk.com/championshi...airman-Karl-Oyston-explains-Jose-Riga-sacking Oyston is a dickhead. He did everything possible to prevent Riga from succeeding. Broken promises, offering his job to a fellow manager, leaving him with 6 pro's right up until the season started - he can't honestly believe the rubbish spouted from his mouth.
So Oyston has replaced Riga with Lee Clark. Who will be next I wonder, Gary Megson? Iain Dowie is available. When you run a club the way the Oystons do you have to look at these options.
