SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT SIGN IT!!!!! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/...utm_source=system&utm_campaign=Send+to+Friend
It doesn't matter who signs this. Either end of the m27 or all over the country it matters not. We need to make a stand against crooked owners. We need to let them know that we won't let them walk over us anymore. We're gonna take OUR game back.
If you go and read some of the (IMHO) excellent writing of SJ Maskell then you'll see that there's a suggestion that we're deliberately not allowed to find out. She puts it better than I ever will:- "There are already plenty of people for whom the actions of the last couple of days has resembled little more than a case of legal bullying in order to suppress an inconvenient freedom of expression. The letters sent to Fansnetwork may easily be interpreted as having the intention of being an attempt to frighten an innocent bystander in this fight for Pompey enough to stop the expression of opinion by those who object to their attempt to preempt the Trust takeover. If this is the case, you have to ask just what drives businessmen to such lengths of intimidation and suppression of opinion when all that is at stake is the purchase of a football club? These tactics are usually the province of those trying to shut down political dissent or to silence whistle-blowers in multi-million pound organisations. What on earth is the issue with a soon-to-be-league-2 club whose assets are worth less than £2.5m? Needless to say, with Pompey being Pompey, this threat of legal action has brought about a renewed level of interest in the subject matter of the blogs and a determined closing of the ranks against those who would threaten one of their own. In this case the suppression of the right to express an opinion has led to a hardening of support for the Trust. The wider implications for football writers, though, are matters of serious concern for anyone interested in greater transparency in the matter of football governance or, we might well argue, for notions of free speech in any sense."
