Tony Petty gets all my heartfelt thanks. Without that piece of distarted, mucous filled, malignant piece of colon trying to ruin us, we would never be the club we are now. TP, WHERE ARE YOU NOW!!!!
Funny you should mention that turd, I stumbled upon this article just yesterday http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14515869
I saw that some time ago SA9, it certainly brought all swans fans together, no matter what our squabbles are on here we all agree that ****er had to go. Mike Lewis has a lot to answer for bringing him in.
I've actually been on holiday a few times with Petty's sidekick. He had a UK solicitor with him usually if you remember. I had no idea who he was when he was introduced to me but another mate pointed it out. His opinion of Petty isn't that great either but he did make it plain that the whole plan was more about property development than running a football club. No surprise there. Ancient history, but a useful reminder of how far we've come.
I have posted this before, some time ago but it's worth repeating. A Swansea supporter bumped into Petty in Australia a little while after the debacle of his tenure at the Vetch. He took the opportunity of giving Petty a good seeing to - a case of the fan hitting the ****!
At the time it was dreadful watching him taking our club apart, remember he sold off our best youngster Stuart Roberts to Wycombe Wanderers cheaply and tried to do the same to Roger Freestone but he wouldn't go. Have to say Nick Cusack was fantastic as captain at the time and he played a vital role in keeping the playing side together as the asset stripper wasn't paying the wages and tried to sell off everything belonging to the club. Sends shivers down my spine when I think back to those worrying times, that match at the Vetch against Rushden was the most surreal I ever attended with the crowd venting their anger at Petty who sat in the directors box, no one was taking much notice of what was going on on the field of play we were just chanting throughout for him to get out of our club whilst the North Bank Alliance in the South Stand closed in around him. The police managed to take him out at the end via a side entrance as he would have been lynched otherwise,that was the turning point as Mel Nurse and co eventually paid him off and he thankfully went back to Australia never to be seen in Swansea again.
