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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c77164p88kjo
I have to agree with him, the owner was well out of order.
Forest having their best season for decades, on the verge of qualifying for Europe and the miserable git is complaining!
I know it would have punished Chelsea fans as well but I would have turned it on the owner so their fans know they are not watching their big match because the owner is petty and wants to be a dictator.
Football stadiums are private property so owners can refuse entrance to whoever they want
In 2021 a Sky pundit was banned from Ibrox and Celtic Park
2012 Birmingham City banned David Gold over comments he made to the press
1995 Ken Bates wouldn't allow Matthew Harding in the directors box at Stamford Bridge
Last month Jim Ratcliffe banned SAF from visiting the dressing room at Old Trafford
I love Punk IPA!!!
Concerning if accurate. Has anyone signed the petition he mentions?
So it would be more appropriate to say ' choose to disagree with' ( and not 'ignore').
That language would also be more consistent with your idea that everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
I do agree that I don't think Sullivan will ever allow his own wealth to be damaged by supporting West Ham and if we suffered due to that he would leave eventually and say oh well, I'm a businessman not a charity. I think this is where our wishes become clear as we wish for a wealthy owner who is prepared to lose money to do all he can to make West Ham a success, however we also, well many of us, don't want a sports washing ownership such as City or Newcastle, and maybe there are not so many of them about at present.
My main regret is that we didn't have ownership in place that allowed us to build our own stadium as spurs have done. Levy gets as much, or more, stick as Sullivan does and they both manage in a similar mode but where as Levy helped finance one of the best stadiums in the whole country we moved into rented accommodation. My hope is that the cunning plan is to eventually be able to buy and redevelop the London Stadium and end up saving a large sum. However I know there will be many obstacles to that actually happening, financial, contractual and political.
The one thing I do agree with what the guy is suggesting is that I think if things go wrong we would be looked at as a real problem in not owning anything of substance and having borrowed against what we did own. If we do fall, we could fall fast.
For balance, the managers have been quite well supported in recent years, although recently the Rice money would have helped that. We have shown ambition and for some too much ambition. Letting Moyes go was ambitious as we hoped to gamble with the security he offered to try and bring a little extra to take the next step. Although I think they made a terrible decision in Lopetgui it was ambitious and he was heavily supported. Potter is now on a rescue mission regarding that ambition. This window and this season are very important for us.