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Cockerill's chin wrote:
The reason this sticky won't work is that Marty has built an identity for years as the prophet of truth regarding the custodians. His moment passed when they sold up and rather than say I told you so, fuck you guys; he chose to be obsessive about his now redundant argument.
Sadly this is so true.
He was spot on with his 'theory' for years, although it couldn't be proved.
Then he was proved correct, as the Board sold out.
I can't quite work out now what happened then, as he should just have taken the applause and left the building, but sadly there is now an encore - without any content.
Also my first and last post in this thread - until some new evidence appears.
I think as CC said, if you go back some years on this board, there was already some debate about the board and their intentions...sadly, Martin's time has gone, and his inability to recognise Wenger's complicity stretches his credulity beyond breaking point.
Cockerill's chin wrote:
The reason this sticky won't work is that Marty has built an identity for years as the prophet of truth regarding the custodians. His moment passed when they sold up and rather than say I told you so, fuck you guys; he chose to be obsessive about his now redundant argument.
Sadly this is so true.
He was spot on with his 'theory' for years, although it couldn't be proved.
Then he was proved correct, as the Board sold out.
I can't quite work out now what happened then, as he should just have taken the applause and left the building, but sadly there is now an encore - without any content.
Also my first and last post in this thread - until some new evidence appears.
But it's not like most of us didn't know they would eventually do that. And anyway, if a bunch of rich business people want to sell their private shares to other rich people, what the hell were we supposed to do about it? This is the thing that I've tried in the past to get across to Martin.
Yes we could have had a letter writing campaign or protests outside and inside the ground (as there were when the old North Bank was knocked down and I'm sure when the idea of leaving Highbury was first mooted) and that worked out well, didn't it?
Ultimately, and this is the crucial point that Martin just has to accept, what could we really have done about it all? The answer is 'the square root of fuck all' for the reasons given above!! Despite the unfairness of it all and horrible as it is to admit, it's 'their' club in the strictest sense of the word. We're 'just' fans and have little impact on the decisions they make, be it the Board or Wenger himself.
Cockerill's chin wrote:
The reason this sticky won't work is that Marty has built an identity for years as the prophet of truth regarding the custodians. His moment passed when they sold up and rather than say I told you so, fuck you guys; he chose to be obsessive about his now redundant argument.
Sadly this is so true.
He was spot on with his 'theory' for years, although it couldn't be proved.
Then he was proved correct, as the Board sold out.
I can't quite work out now what happened then, as he should just have taken the applause and left the building, but sadly there is now an encore - without any content.
Also my first and last post in this thread - until some new evidence appears.
But it's not like most of us didn't know they would eventually do that. And anyway, if a bunch of rich business people want to sell their private shares to other rich people, what the hell were we supposed to do about it? This is the thing that I've tried in the past to get across to Martin.
Yes we could have had a letter writing campaign or protests outside and inside the ground (as there were when the old North Bank was knocked down and I'm sure when the idea of leaving Highbury was first mooted) and that worked out well, didn't it?
Ultimately, and this is the crucial point that Martin just has to accept, what could we really have done about it all? The answer is 'the square root of fuck all' for the reasons given above!! Despite the unfairness of it all and horrible as it is to admit, it's 'their' club in the strictest sense of the word. We're 'just' fans and have little impact on the decisions they make, be it the Board or Wenger himself.