| Scunthorpe Chairman 20:13 - Sep 25 with 7592 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Charming!
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 20:29 - Sep 25 with 5310 views | QPsyR |
Well out of order, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's a massive Grimsby fan doing it on purpose.
I've always thought that once I become a multi-billionaire I wouldn't buy Rangers (too much grief) but buy Foolham (3541) instead and totally fck them up back to where theyt belong. Like, if he was still here buy Niko for 250Million and put him on 250K a week and such larks.
To be honest I'm still really surprised that Tony Fernades hasn't ripped off his Bungle mask to reveal he's Peter Gilham....'And I did get away with it cos you didn't meddle enough Mwah Ha Ha'
Or something like that. [Post edited 25 Sep 2023 20:45]
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 20:48 - Sep 25 with 5209 views | colinallcars |
I take it English isn't his first language ! |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 00:22 - Sep 26 with 4964 views | Loftgirl |
Beautiful grammar. |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 00:40 - Sep 26 with 4932 views | Northernr |
There's so much back story here.
This guy picked the club up bottom of the Conference last year from the lunatic that had taken a Championship team and worked it to that position, while at the same time running up £10m+ in Las Vegas casino debt. Basically football's attitude - and this has happened multiple times, it's happened multiple times at Wigan and Charlton alone - is THANK GOD A SAVIOUR IS HERE don't worry about checking him at least it's not that other nutter.
This guy has a previous conviction for fraud, and multiple fake identities. Allowed to take control of the club regardless. He's now banning scores and scores of fans, including their main podcast and fans site, for saying nasty things about him on socials.
After their next game their home matches will henceforth be played at Gainsborough, and, well, I've refereed at Gainsborough, so that tells you a lot about where a club that beat our Taarabt team 4-1 is currently.
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 00:56 - Sep 26 with 4895 views | Boston |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 20:48 - Sep 25 by colinallcars |
I take it English isn't his first language ! |
Look mate, it's English, albeit the American variety, and surely Lee Whos is allowed the occasional chuckle. | |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 01:04 - Sep 26 with 4894 views | numptydumpty |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 00:40 - Sep 26 by Northernr |
There's so much back story here.
This guy picked the club up bottom of the Conference last year from the lunatic that had taken a Championship team and worked it to that position, while at the same time running up £10m+ in Las Vegas casino debt. Basically football's attitude - and this has happened multiple times, it's happened multiple times at Wigan and Charlton alone - is THANK GOD A SAVIOUR IS HERE don't worry about checking him at least it's not that other nutter.
This guy has a previous conviction for fraud, and multiple fake identities. Allowed to take control of the club regardless. He's now banning scores and scores of fans, including their main podcast and fans site, for saying nasty things about him on socials.
After their next game their home matches will henceforth be played at Gainsborough, and, well, I've refereed at Gainsborough, so that tells you a lot about where a club that beat our Taarabt team 4-1 is currently.
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If he bans fans that criticise him, then every single poster ever on this forum alone would not be allowed to get into Loftus Road.
All very sensible actions and clearly of sound mind !!!
A perfect fit to take over at our particular club !!! |  |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 04:31 - Sep 26 with 4810 views | PlanetHonneywood |
He's certainly the c..t in Scunthorpe! |  |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 12:06 - Sep 26 with 4414 views | aston_hoop |
They deleted their Twitter page earlier and then launched a new one and turned comments off now. Weird owner, who'd have thought they could actually find one worse than the last one! Poor fans |  |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 12:14 - Sep 26 with 4380 views | ted_hendrix |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 12:06 - Sep 26 by aston_hoop |
They deleted their Twitter page earlier and then launched a new one and turned comments off now. Weird owner, who'd have thought they could actually find one worse than the last one! Poor fans |
Poor fans Is right, I bet the regular and local lifelong Scunthorpe fans who started supporting their local club Years ago never thought back then that It would end up like this.
Last time we were there we lost of course but the locals were good as gold.
Hope things work out for them.
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:25 - Sep 26 with 4166 views | Juzzie |
Over the years I've wiggled my way up the career ladder (with a bit of snakes & ladders along the way) and the one thing that is clear is the higher you go you are absolutely there to be questioned.
There's are thousands and thousands of seniority people who think they are immune from criticism or just general question. It's as though they believe they are absolved of any accountability. |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 18:28 - Sep 26 with 3935 views | NorthantsHoop |
Sure Northampton Town fans not shedding any tears for Scunthorpe after the Bristol Rovers debacle at the end of the 2021/22 season. |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:10 - Sep 27 with 3570 views | queensparker |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:25 - Sep 26 by Juzzie |
Over the years I've wiggled my way up the career ladder (with a bit of snakes & ladders along the way) and the one thing that is clear is the higher you go you are absolutely there to be questioned.
There's are thousands and thousands of seniority people who think they are immune from criticism or just general question. It's as though they believe they are absolved of any accountability. |
Certainly an attitude that radiates from our ruling class at the moment. Accountability and censure a foreign concept |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:41 - Sep 27 with 3477 views | Northernr |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 18:28 - Sep 26 by NorthantsHoop |
Sure Northampton Town fans not shedding any tears for Scunthorpe after the Bristol Rovers debacle at the end of the 2021/22 season. |
Not sure it's enough to want a club to go completely bust mind. | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:49 - Sep 27 with 3443 views | Northernr |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 12:06 - Sep 26 by aston_hoop |
They deleted their Twitter page earlier and then launched a new one and turned comments off now. Weird owner, who'd have thought they could actually find one worse than the last one! Poor fans |
This is the thing though - too often football and the EFL have that attitude. It's happened a couple of times at Wigan, and previously at Bolton. They're just so glad that a problematic lunatic is leaving a club, there's an "anybody will do" attitude to whoever is taking it off their hands. Anything has to be better than this. And they don't do the required checks and governance on the new guy. All too frequently, a year or so down the line, they're in an even worse state still.
Some of the things he's done since taking over by the way...
- Immediately closed the whole youth team and academy down.
- Closed and abandoned the training ground, moved the whole first team operation lock stock to a sporting facility he owns at the previous club he was involved in at Ilkeston under the "it's hard to get players to want to come to Scunthorpe when we're recruiting" catch all (Ilkeston's an absolute paradise of course). This would be the equivalent of us training down the M4 at Swindon or somewhere like it.
- Left a whole load of ex players and staff with unpaid wages and redundancy.
- Started a highly dubious 1500 club where supporters were asked to put £1,500 quid in for membership, for a whole load of dubious benefits which are yet to materialise. Taken to court over the ownership and rent of the stadium, which now apparently means future home games will be at Gainsborough - I've refereed at Gainsborough which should give you a clue as to the level and facilities there.
How can a guy with convictions for fraud, operating under several aliases, be allowed to just walk into a club like that, take the keys, shut the academy, effectively move the club operations 100 miles away so it's closer to where he lives, now move it out of its home stadium to a crap non-league ground in a nearby village... and nobody does a thing about it. There has to be an independent process in these situations where a club is repossessed by the sport as an 'operator of last resort'. | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:57 - Sep 27 with 3389 views | CroydonCaptJack |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 20:48 - Sep 25 by colinallcars |
I take it English isn't his first language ! |
The grammar is almost as bad as the content  |  | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:59 - Sep 27 with 3367 views | CamberleyR |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:49 - Sep 27 by Northernr |
This is the thing though - too often football and the EFL have that attitude. It's happened a couple of times at Wigan, and previously at Bolton. They're just so glad that a problematic lunatic is leaving a club, there's an "anybody will do" attitude to whoever is taking it off their hands. Anything has to be better than this. And they don't do the required checks and governance on the new guy. All too frequently, a year or so down the line, they're in an even worse state still.
Some of the things he's done since taking over by the way...
- Immediately closed the whole youth team and academy down.
- Closed and abandoned the training ground, moved the whole first team operation lock stock to a sporting facility he owns at the previous club he was involved in at Ilkeston under the "it's hard to get players to want to come to Scunthorpe when we're recruiting" catch all (Ilkeston's an absolute paradise of course). This would be the equivalent of us training down the M4 at Swindon or somewhere like it.
- Left a whole load of ex players and staff with unpaid wages and redundancy.
- Started a highly dubious 1500 club where supporters were asked to put £1,500 quid in for membership, for a whole load of dubious benefits which are yet to materialise. Taken to court over the ownership and rent of the stadium, which now apparently means future home games will be at Gainsborough - I've refereed at Gainsborough which should give you a clue as to the level and facilities there.
How can a guy with convictions for fraud, operating under several aliases, be allowed to just walk into a club like that, take the keys, shut the academy, effectively move the club operations 100 miles away so it's closer to where he lives, now move it out of its home stadium to a crap non-league ground in a nearby village... and nobody does a thing about it. There has to be an independent process in these situations where a club is repossessed by the sport as an 'operator of last resort'. |
What's the thing with Glanford Park then Clive? |  |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 13:57 - Sep 27 with 3231 views | Northernr |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:59 - Sep 27 by CamberleyR |
What's the thing with Glanford Park then Clive? |
The previous owner, also a complete wrong un who destroyed the club in the first place while running up colossal casino gambling debts, owns the stadium. Scunny pay something daft like £6 a month to rent it. Him and the new guy are locked in a legal dispute over its ownership. Result is Scunny are apparently being kicked out and will be playing at Gainsborough as of the end of this month. | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 14:08 - Sep 27 with 3178 views | francisbowles |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 11:41 - Sep 27 by Northernr |
Not sure it's enough to want a club to go completely bust mind. |
Sorry Clive downvoted by mistake, was trying to see why I might have someone on ignore as I don't use that facility.  | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 14:53 - Sep 27 with 3074 views | Stainrod |
Clearly this owner sounds a complete wrong 'un. I suppose just in very limited defence of the league, there probably isn't exactly a queue of rich investors clamouring to buy a Scunthorpe whenever it comes up for sale. If they turn down the one bloke offering to buy them and the club then goes into receivership the same fans who are no doubt complaining now would probably be up in arms saying "why have you blocked the takeover?" But agree with the general sentiment that we have allowed football from top to nearly bottom to be taken over by some seriously dodgy people. | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:08 - Sep 27 with 3036 views | CamberleyR |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 13:57 - Sep 27 by Northernr |
The previous owner, also a complete wrong un who destroyed the club in the first place while running up colossal casino gambling debts, owns the stadium. Scunny pay something daft like £6 a month to rent it. Him and the new guy are locked in a legal dispute over its ownership. Result is Scunny are apparently being kicked out and will be playing at Gainsborough as of the end of this month. |
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| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:32 - Sep 27 with 2995 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Why don’t local councils buy football clubs? | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:33 - Sep 27 with 2992 views | NewBee |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 14:53 - Sep 27 by Stainrod |
Clearly this owner sounds a complete wrong 'un. I suppose just in very limited defence of the league, there probably isn't exactly a queue of rich investors clamouring to buy a Scunthorpe whenever it comes up for sale. If they turn down the one bloke offering to buy them and the club then goes into receivership the same fans who are no doubt complaining now would probably be up in arms saying "why have you blocked the takeover?" But agree with the general sentiment that we have allowed football from top to nearly bottom to be taken over by some seriously dodgy people. |
You're quite right in your observation, but the root of the problem is that the EFL (or PL) will always be reluctant to tighten up their Fit & Proper Rules to something meaningful because ultimately that would have to be agreed by their member clubs.
And the clubs are controlled by their owners (obv), who usually (nearly always?) have an eye towards an exit strategy.
That is, if they want/need to sell the club at any time, will there be potential buyers out there? Meaning that they won't want to restrict the pool, if they can help it.
All of which is one argument for an independent regulator (not that I wish to open up that particular topic, on this thread at least). | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:44 - Sep 27 with 2950 views | Stainrod |
Plus the vast majority of clubs are seriously loss-making so if you are not a supporter of a particular club why should you face an increase in council tax just so your local club can satisfy the "FFS just sign a striker" brigade among any fanbase. | | | |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:45 - Sep 27 with 2947 views | Northernr |
| Scunthorpe Chairman on 15:32 - Sep 27 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Why don’t local councils buy football clubs? |
Local councils who can't even afford to operate public toilets any more?
Think they've got enough on their plates ATM without tipping public cash into football clubs which are, almost entirely in this country, money pits. | | | |
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