09-05-2016, 18:20
After the joy of their brief stay in the Premier League for which they earned a lot of praise by trying to attack, an attitude I'd remind you their supporters cheered, even when they were losing, Blackpool were dismantled by a Chairman who deliberately turned them into relegation fodder. They started their season with anyone who was willing to wear their unattractive strip! They were relegated before their season started. This is the club many of these fans had supported their whole lives. They'd been given hope and then had seen it crushed in front of their eyes. NO ******* WONDER THEY WERE ANGRY AND HAVE REMAINED SO. An important part of their lives has been stolen by an ill-motivated owner, who, if the Football League had any sense of justice, would be expelled from any official position in the game for life.
I'd have supported any Blackpool fan in any demonstration short of physical violence and vandalism to attempt to keep the club in existence. Appalling things happen to football clubs. Chesterfield was in the hands of a criminal while we were thinking how lovely it was being nine points clear at the top. Fans who live the game and care about their clubs are generally just so many victims to the power of money and the men at the top who choose to let it happen. Losing 1-5 to Brentford is far from the worst thing that could happen to Huddersfield. I hope nothing worse does ever happen, but if it does it will not be fans who caused it. They'll be numbered among the victims and I'll be on their side.
Snooty, you are far too able, decent and likeable a man to sustain such a blinkered view of Blackpool. Theirs is a tragedy that might befall almost any of us. Name all the clubs in the 92 which are genuinely owned by their fans. Exeter City and how many others? I thought we were meant to be on the side of fans, not rich ****** owners who inherit a club from an even richer ****** of a dad in a silly hat!
I'd have supported any Blackpool fan in any demonstration short of physical violence and vandalism to attempt to keep the club in existence. Appalling things happen to football clubs. Chesterfield was in the hands of a criminal while we were thinking how lovely it was being nine points clear at the top. Fans who live the game and care about their clubs are generally just so many victims to the power of money and the men at the top who choose to let it happen. Losing 1-5 to Brentford is far from the worst thing that could happen to Huddersfield. I hope nothing worse does ever happen, but if it does it will not be fans who caused it. They'll be numbered among the victims and I'll be on their side.
Snooty, you are far too able, decent and likeable a man to sustain such a blinkered view of Blackpool. Theirs is a tragedy that might befall almost any of us. Name all the clubs in the 92 which are genuinely owned by their fans. Exeter City and how many others? I thought we were meant to be on the side of fans, not rich ****** owners who inherit a club from an even richer ****** of a dad in a silly hat!