It is a shame that those success stories seem to be increasingly rare these days. We live in a culture which desires instant gratification, and immediate reward.
But there is little money to be made in the game nowadays, particularly at the lower end of the football pyramid - and the recent introduction of Financial Fair Play regulations has seen the gulf between the rich and poor widen even further.
Over the last decade or so, unrealistic expectations and a lack of patience have turned football into a negative environment where failure, and improvement, is rarely allowed.
Sounds like he’s saying clubs like us must learn to live within their means.
'...Our stadium, The Valley, is less than 10 miles from where I was born - and my strong roots to the area, and understanding of the club's identity, certainly proved beneficial when I took control....'
What a load of old bollocks. Strong roots to the area my arse. Born in Brixton and supports Chelsea. He try's to make it sound as if he's been an Addick all of his life ... Haha
Understanding the clubs identity? Think he's got that badly wrong in terms of the staff and the supporters. Refers to Valley McMoist's post in terms of "our" club. Interesting nonetheless that he feels qualified to hand out owner advice to David Beckham. Sounds like a 28 handicapper.
I swear sometimes that CAFC these days is some elaborate new reality show or soap opera and we're not yet in on it.
What a bizarre start to the day seeing this article....
It's a well (ghost I presume) written piece. The bits about how hard it is for foreign owners doesn't sound like something that would be said if such foreign new owners were waiting in the wings...
In fact the tone of the whole piece makes me fear this is softening us up, giving some context, and attempting to make him "one of us" before administration is announced at the end of the week.
Let's hope he stays true to his word and supports Chris Powell over the next few months. We've got some tough fixtures coming up and could well find ourselves in the bottom three at 5pm on Saturday. Let's hope he doesn't panic and backs him in January.
On another note - he writes for the Huff Post but hasn't even provided any official club channel with a single sentence in almost three years.
Agree with WSS. we don't hear anything from him put he does some random piece like this.
Stupid thing is if he did more of these articles/ statements in the program or local press it would go along way to building a relationship with the fans and making people less worried about him. If what he states in there are his true believes then i think that's what a good percentage of fans would want to hear from him as well.
My first thoughts were' its a wind up'. Still not sure. Maybe some sort of swan song statement before,he thought wrongly , the baton was about to be passed. Dated the 9th and a strong American slant to it with reference to Lerner. 'Thanks,goodnight, and I think you'll be ok 'is what I think it's about.
If it was written for us as supporters in mind and published on the 9th, I'm surprised that it has taken until now for it to be spotted - would have thought that it would have been planted somewhere before now.
good article (albeit a bit strange i.e location of it etc), some will still moan about it though, I guess he's dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn't!
Can't make any sense of what is going on, will just try and support the team and look at Charlton through my son's eyes who thinks we're the greatest team in Europe and Simon Church the holder of the ballon d'or.
The full bio if you click on his name made me chuckle.
Particularly this bit:
"Tony is particularly accomplished in identifying development opportunities, which produce significant returns in relatively short periods of time this is mainly through acquiring significant planning gains".
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I wish he would put his views across more than he does.
What a load of old bollocks. Strong roots to the area my arse. Born in Brixton and supports Chelsea. He try's to make it sound as if he's been an Addick all of his life ... Haha
Was that placed in the small ads section?
He states he's the owner - was it not thought he was the 'front man' for the owners ?
What a bizarre start to the day seeing this article....
It's a well (ghost I presume) written piece. The bits about how hard it is for foreign owners doesn't sound like something that would be said if such foreign new owners were waiting in the wings...
In fact the tone of the whole piece makes me fear this is softening us up, giving some context, and attempting to make him "one of us" before administration is announced at the end of the week.
Hope I have got this completely wrong.
On another note - he writes for the Huff Post but hasn't even provided any official club channel with a single sentence in almost three years.
Firstly, I'd be amazed if that ghost write was based on even 10% of his comments, but even so, things just go from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Would love to know what all the local hacks thinks about this having not got a squeak out of him for three years !
What next, will he be starring in the next series of Splash ?
on face value seems good news for Powell.
Stupid thing is if he did more of these articles/ statements in the program or local press it would go along way to building a relationship with the fans and making people less worried about him. If what he states in there are his true believes then i think that's what a good percentage of fans would want to hear from him as well.
Still not sure. Maybe some sort of swan song statement before,he thought wrongly , the baton was about to be passed.
Dated the 9th and a strong American slant to it with reference to Lerner. 'Thanks,goodnight, and I think you'll be ok 'is what I think it's about.
Nonetheless extremely strange still!!
Almost as if he's short of a few bob at the moment and could do with some extra income.
"Tony is particularly accomplished in identifying development opportunities, which produce significant returns in relatively short periods of time this is mainly through acquiring significant planning gains".