BREAKING: Staines Town has temporarily suspended all primary operations including competitive fixtures. Club statement: https://t.co/yx7FICLQkF https://t.co/fKB9hVUl33 Stainsey are you responsible for this. If so I applaud you. A lot of bad stuff involved
I can’t get the link up Beth…what’s happened ? The owner of the club has no friends in the area, so I’m led to believe and is doing his best to antagonise all around him, including the land owners NB just got it and will have a look.
Ok just had a quick look and it appears, to me anyway, just the latest ruck between the landlords of the ground (The Thames Club) and the owner of the club. As I say, the owner has set out to belittle, abuse and antagonise many people in the area and for him to act all high and mighty now, just seems his way to try and get back at the landlords. This is the man who set up a Travellers Cup competition, witch was to be played in the summer, lasting months, which would cause mayhem in the surrounding area which really wasn’t fit for purpose. This of course, if you weren’t aware, is a town that is virtually a no go area at weekends, due to the self same community causing violence and mayhem, leading to almost weekly dispersal orders being put in place. I can’t help thinking that his virtue suits him when he needs it. NB If you look on the Downing website they have a statement referring to Dixons claims…..it’s all getting rather nasty. I don’t think Dixon is very popular with the fans either
Staines Town Football Club (STFC) regrets to announce that pursuant to third party breaches of Section 54 of The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and other information that has come to light, we are forced to temporarily suspend all primary operations including but not limited to competitive fixtures, until a thorough investigation into the practices of Downing LLP has been concluded by the relevant authorities. In the first instance, STFC has an obligation under The Modern Slavery Act 2015 to ensure that our business and supply chains are free from human trafficking and slavery. Our actions, as a full member of The English Football Association (The FA), are compliant and fully concur with The FA statement on Slavery and Human Trafficking (See attached below). This statement and the adherence to The Modern Slavery Act 2015, has also been adopted by every other National Football Association within the United Kingdom and its major member clubs. Of particular interest to those involved at all levels of football, both within the UK and globally, it has also come to our attention through both substantive and vast evidence from various sources, that Downing LLP, who control and fund the operation of our Landlord, The Thames Club, may be involved through its other holdings in the financing of large scale bribery and corruption. This includes the current funding of a Swiss Bank with international operations that has been found guilty in the United States Federal Court of conspiring to launder over $36 million USD in bribes to officials within the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and other football federations. These bribes were in furtherance of a scheme in which sports marketing companies bribed football officials in exchange for broadcasting rights to football matches. After the guilty verdicts were handed down, The US Attorney’s Office described the scandal by saying, “The business and its employees facilitated bribes and its compliance department turned a blind eye to glaring red flags of money laundering. This Office will hold accountable those corporations or individuals that use the American banking system for corrupt ends. As today’s resolution makes clear, financial institutions that become complicit in their clients’ efforts to launder illicit funds face significant penalties.” “Today’s resolution sends a strong message to all financial institutions that if they knowingly misuse our financial system to hide their clients’ criminal proceeds or to promote a corrupt scheme, they will be held to account. From the time of the first FIFA-related indictment, the Department has promised to hold accountable the financial institutions involved in this global criminal scheme. We are delivering on that promise.” “The business pursued the profit it could make laundering corrupt funds derived from a criminal scheme run by powerful FIFA officials. Their behaviour has earned them the equivalent of a red card, and the money the bank now owes the U.S. government is more than double what it admits to laundering. The FBI operates globally with our international partners, and our message to those who may be looking to profit from similar schemes is simple – the penalties for this type of play are steep. Stay within the rules.”
Yeah I’ve read it all now Beth…..and as I said earlier, just the owners latest salvo against the landlord of the club in their ongoing dispute. Don’t take his virtue at face value
And Roman thinks the Scum have problems... So many non-league clubs seem to attract complete buffoons as owners...
My Mrs just turned over to Concert for Ukraine…biggest load of virtue signalling bollox I’ve seen in my life. All we need is a bloke sitting in a bath of baked beans or someone hopping on one leg for 16 hours…..bring back Comic relief.
If anyone did either of those things and thereby raised money for stricken Ukrainians, that would be positive action rather than 'virtue signalling' wouldn't it?
Nah, I’d say many of the people who get involved couldn’t give a **** about Ukraine and it’s just another cause to support and a badge to wear. Was Afghanistan last year, Ukraine this year, and who knows where next year….people love to show they are more virtuous and care more than the person next to them. Bet all have changed their facebook pages to Blue and Yellow. I’m just a cynic
Changing your Facebook page is virtue signalling, actually doing something positive to help people isn't.
