Well worth listening to and a fierce defence of all football fans. Would have been better had he ranted in French, but good for him. "This will go bad for Charlton. But Charlton will survive because there are 15-20,000 fans in South London that love the club."
For those that didn't get to hear it at the time or since, here's a transcript. Worth preserving I think, he's got it spot on:
--- Then yesterday a statement from Roland Duchatelet and from the CEO Katrien Meire absolutely let the cat out of the bag. It accused the fans of disorder - this from Duchatelet who the last time he watched at game at the Valley was October 2014, so how he knows what's going on there with the fans I have no idea. He accused the fans of wanting to get the club to get relegated. Then he said, so how can I sell the club then which is what you want?
But more importantly, at the end there's a little asterisked thing about the CEO, that's Katrien Meire, being misrepresented. And he says, I think the difference is because fans don't see them as we do - as customers. Here we go, "you're not fans you're our customers".
And she goes on to say, they go to restaurants with the families every week, and they go to the cinema, but if they aren't satisfied with the product will they go and scream and shout and tell the people in charge? No they don't but they do at a football club.
And it goes on to say, they feel a sense of ownership at the club and that is really difficult.
I'm sorry, the other bad owners up and down the league are trying to keep this in the background, this is the first time the cat's been allowed to jump straight out of the bag. The owners at Charlton do not think you have anything to do with the club other than you pay to go through the gates watch their frankly useless product just now.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
The owners of Charlton profoundly misunderstand what English football's about. With the exception of a handful of elite clubs who worm their way around in the champions league every year, they are community clubs in the middle of towns and cities who rely on their sense of reality, and for their future - I'm sorry to say this - and for their future on the support of generations of people who have gone to see them.
And if you start saying those people are wrong because they want to to oppose you, are customers rather than fans, and that they are weird - and she uses the word weird! - because they complain when the product's no good, then my friends you have misunderstood English football from top to bottom.
And this is going to come out bad. this is going to go bad for the Charlton owners because they will lose the supporters - I understand the season ticket sales for next season are disastrous - and the club will go down and down and the investment they've already made in it will become worthless.
They will go penniless, backside out of their trousers. But Charlton, here's the secret guys, Charlton will survive because it has 15-20000 people in South London who love the club. But they don't understand that, they're gonna get it horribly wrong and that lesson they're going to learn very very expensively.
Go on keep it up, keep disrespecting the fans - it will cost you in the long run.
For those that didn't get to hear it at the time or since, here's a transcript. Worth preserving I think, he's got it spot on:
--- Then yesterday a statement from Roland Duchatelet and from the CEO Katrien Meire absolutely let the cat out of the bag. It accused the fans of disorder - this from Duchatelet who the last time he watched at game at the Valley was October 2014, so how he knows what's going on there with the fans I have no idea. He accused the fans of wanting to get the club to get relegated. Then he said, so how can I sell the club then which is what you want?
But more importantly, at the end there's a little asterisked thing about the CEO, that's Katrien Meire, being misrepresented. And he says, I think the difference is because fans don't see them as we do - as customers. Here we go, "you're not fans you're our customers".
And she goes on to say, they go to restaurants with the families every week, and they go to the cinema, but if they aren't satisfied with the product will they go and scream and shout and tell the people in charge? No they don't but they do at a football club.
And it goes on to say, they feel a sense of ownership at the club and that is really difficult.
I'm sorry, the other bad owners up and down the league are trying to keep this in the background, this is the first time the cat's been allowed to jump straight out of the bag. The owners at Charlton do not think you have anything to do with the club other than you pay to go through the gates watch their frankly useless product just now.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
The owners of Charlton profoundly misunderstand what English football's about. With the exception of a handful of elite clubs who worm their way around in the champions league every year, they are community clubs in the middle of towns and cities who rely on their sense of reality, and for their future - I'm sorry to say this - and for their future on the support of generations of people who have gone to see them.
And if you start saying those people are wrong because they want to to oppose you, are customers rather than fans, and that they are weird - and she uses the word weird! - because they complain when the product's no good, then my friends you have misunderstood English football from top to bottom.
And this is going to come out bad. this is going to go bad for the Charlton owners because they will lose the supporters - I understand the season ticket sales for next season are disastrous - and the club will go down and down and the investment they've already made in it will become worthless.
They will go penniless, backside out of their trousers. But Charlton, here's the secret guys, Charlton will survive because it has 15-20000 people in South London who love the club. But they don't understand that, they're gonna get it horribly wrong and that lesson they're going to learn very very expensively.
Go on keep it up, keep disrespecting the fans - it will cost you in the long run.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
That's the nub of it - Meire said how dare the fans have any sense of ownership when it's Douchebag who pays the bills. As though Charlton is some kind of brand or commodity.
I despise this awful ownership and there is nothing they can do but sell up and clear out - the whole lot of them from Douchebag through to Riga and De Cort - that will make me change that view.
Absolutely superb summing up of all that is wrong with Duchalet's tenure of our club.
After he has gone we will return from the ashes and be a proper club we can back with all of our collective hearts again. Keep up the pressure, eep up the faith he will go eventually.
For those that didn't get to hear it at the time or since, here's a transcript. Worth preserving I think, he's got it spot on:
--- Then yesterday a statement from Roland Duchatelet and from the CEO Katrien Meire absolutely let the cat out of the bag. It accused the fans of disorder - this from Duchatelet who the last time he watched at game at the Valley was October 2014, so how he knows what's going on there with the fans I have no idea. He accused the fans of wanting to get the club to get relegated. Then he said, so how can I sell the club then which is what you want?
But more importantly, at the end there's a little asterisked thing about the CEO, that's Katrien Meire, being misrepresented. And he says, I think the difference is because fans don't see them as we do - as customers. Here we go, "you're not fans you're our customers".
And she goes on to say, they go to restaurants with the families every week, and they go to the cinema, but if they aren't satisfied with the product will they go and scream and shout and tell the people in charge? No they don't but they do at a football club.
And it goes on to say, they feel a sense of ownership at the club and that is really difficult.
I'm sorry, the other bad owners up and down the league are trying to keep this in the background, this is the first time the cat's been allowed to jump straight out of the bag. The owners at Charlton do not think you have anything to do with the club other than you pay to go through the gates watch their frankly useless product just now.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
The owners of Charlton profoundly misunderstand what English football's about. With the exception of a handful of elite clubs who worm their way around in the champions league every year, they are community clubs in the middle of towns and cities who rely on their sense of reality, and for their future - I'm sorry to say this - and for their future on the support of generations of people who have gone to see them.
And if you start saying those people are wrong because they want to to oppose you, are customers rather than fans, and that they are weird - and she uses the word weird! - because they complain when the product's no good, then my friends you have misunderstood English football from top to bottom.
And this is going to come out bad. this is going to go bad for the Charlton owners because they will lose the supporters - I understand the season ticket sales for next season are disastrous - and the club will go down and down and the investment they've already made in it will become worthless.
They will go penniless, backside out of their trousers. But Charlton, here's the secret guys, Charlton will survive because it has 15-20000 people in South London who love the club. But they don't understand that, they're gonna get it horribly wrong and that lesson they're going to learn very very expensively.
Go on keep it up, keep disrespecting the fans - it will cost you in the long run.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
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Then yesterday a statement from Roland Duchatelet and from the CEO Katrien Meire absolutely let the cat out of the bag. It accused the fans of disorder - this from Duchatelet who the last time he watched at game at the Valley was October 2014, so how he knows what's going on there with the fans I have no idea. He accused the fans of wanting to get the club to get relegated. Then he said, so how can I sell the club then which is what you want?
But more importantly, at the end there's a little asterisked thing about the CEO, that's Katrien Meire, being misrepresented. And he says, I think the difference is because fans don't see them as we do - as customers. Here we go, "you're not fans you're our customers".
And she goes on to say, they go to restaurants with the families every week, and they go to the cinema, but if they aren't satisfied with the product will they go and scream and shout and tell the people in charge? No they don't but they do at a football club.
And it goes on to say, they feel a sense of ownership at the club and that is really difficult.
I'm sorry, the other bad owners up and down the league are trying to keep this in the background, this is the first time the cat's been allowed to jump straight out of the bag. The owners at Charlton do not think you have anything to do with the club other than you pay to go through the gates watch their frankly useless product just now.
The owners of Charlton don't understand that when you buy a football club all you're buying is the collective memories of the people who support that club, because without them: an empty ground and a few blokes to get paid running around playing football? - you've got nothing.
The owners of Charlton profoundly misunderstand what English football's about. With the exception of a handful of elite clubs who worm their way around in the champions league every year, they are community clubs in the middle of towns and cities who rely on their sense of reality, and for their future - I'm sorry to say this - and for their future on the support of generations of people who have gone to see them.
And if you start saying those people are wrong because they want to to oppose you, are customers rather than fans, and that they are weird - and she uses the word weird! - because they complain when the product's no good, then my friends you have misunderstood English football from top to bottom.
And this is going to come out bad. this is going to go bad for the Charlton owners because they will lose the supporters - I understand the season ticket sales for next season are disastrous - and the club will go down and down and the investment they've already made in it will become worthless.
They will go penniless, backside out of their trousers. But Charlton, here's the secret guys, Charlton will survive because it has 15-20000 people in South London who love the club. But they don't understand that, they're gonna get it horribly wrong and that lesson they're going to learn very very expensively.
Go on keep it up, keep disrespecting the fans - it will cost you in the long run.
Or do you just want to say Whoooooosh.
The amount of Air time he have given to CAFC is Amazing.
I heard him say that CAFC means a lot to him last month so maybe a relative supported the club in times gone by.
Close escape Danny.
http://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1458144000#
Perfect.
Well done Danny Kelly.
I despise this awful ownership and there is nothing they can do but sell up and clear out - the whole lot of them from Douchebag through to Riga and De Cort - that will make me change that view.
Nothing.
After he has gone we will return from the ashes and be a proper club we can back with all of our collective hearts again. Keep up the pressure, eep up the faith he will go eventually.
Can we not "sticky" this please ?