Letter in todays Greenwich & Lewisham Mercury

clive

Under the headline CARD are killing our club a letter attacking CARD written by a Michael E Tucker,who accuses CARD 'of inciting organised hooligan action' & being deluded.
The letter appears on page 13,if anybody can reproduce it here for peoples entertainment it maybe helpful.

NorthStandUltra

Here you go

Addickted2U

The work of the regime. Shouldn't pay attention to it.

cantersaddick

Yep I'm sure it's one of Tom Rubbashow's ideas.

LargeAddick

Weird.

superclive98

It's so badly written and so full of inaccuracies that it wouldn't surprise me if it had come from someone in the club!
Seriously though, it sounds like the sort of supporter that will follow the club blindly and, in Roland's case, over the edge of the cliff.
I just cannot understand how anyone can be so blinkered and so out of touch with reality.

Boughtonaddicks

Ostrich

Addickted2U

cantersaddick said:

Yep I'm sure it's one of Tom Rubbashow's ideas.

Using phrases previously directed at them: 'deluded' / 'seriously need to get a grip of their own shortfalls'. Blah blah blah - shit.

bobmunro

Addickted2U said:

The work of the regime. Shouldn't pay attention to it.

Maybe, maybe not. Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that all Charlton supporters feel the same way. They don't.

NorthStandUltra

I thought for a second that Michael E Tucker was an anagram of Katrien Meire.....

SouthWest_Addicks

He is entitled to his opinion. I am boycotting because I refuse to fund Roland and watch league one football.

His last sentence is incorrect, he is not speaking out against people who think CARD will get the desired result he is simply name calling.

LuckyReds

NorthStandUltra said:

I thought for a second that Michael E Tucker was an anagram of Katrien Meire.....

Wow.

Katrien Me[..]e

That is quite bizarre...

SuedeAdidas

NorthStandUltra said:

I thought for a second that Michael E Tucker was an anagram of Katrien Meire.....

You're onto something mate......it is an anagram of....

Make Hectic Lucre.

AFKABartram

He's entitled to his opinion. I think he is in his 70s and there's definitely some in the older generation that don't like the protest aspects.

TellyTubby

My English isn't brilliant but isn't his name an anagram of 'DICK'?

stonemuse

As AFKA says, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

That's surely the basis of our protests so no problem if he has a counter view.

C_A_F_C

He's entitled to his opinion but in my opinion the only organised hooligan activity i've seen at the Valley this season was by those four nice gentlemen hired by the club at the Coventry game.

rememberbillybonds

I am in my 60s, have been going to Charlton since 1961.
I shout louder than most -"Roland out" etc. I sat in the car park last season stopping vehicles entering.
I have seen RD foist rubbish players into the team, I have seen good players pushed out. I have heard the lies as totally hopeless managers/ coaches are appointed.
I know KM is both incompetent but most significantly has insulted and hurt Charlton fans.
I know it was a generalisation but let's not think the older generation do not want to protest.
I protest for one reason- I want my Charlton back.

superclive98

AFKABartram said:

He's entitled to his opinion. I think he is in his 70s and there's definitely some in the older generation that don't like the protest aspects.

He is entitled to his opinion and I'm sure that I've met plenty like him when handing out leaflets. They normally refuse to take anything and comment "what's the alternative?".
To talk about "unsavoury events that have drawn reactions from the media....." and "hooligan action" is a bit fanciful. The vast majority of reaction from the media has been hugely positive and if the protests amount to hooliganism then I dread to think what he made of what was going on in the 70s and 80s.

shirty5

Mr Tucker is anti CARD as shown on his blog below

http://www.charlton.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=469655

The gentleman's site is not viewed by many people, so he has decided to take it down the old fashioned route and get it published in the local press.

I don't agree with Tucker, but he is entitled to his opinion.

Essex_Al

NorthStandUltra said:

Here you go

Bravo Mr. Tucker, Bravo!

superclive98

I've changed my mind. Arseholes like that shouldn't be allowed to voice their opinion.

MuttleyCAFC

It is a free country but they have to accept they are in the minority. And not make wild accusations about hooliganism which is slanderous.

Hartleypete

What an absolute Pratt.

TellyTubby

stonemuse said:

As AFKA says, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

That's surely the basis of our protests so no problem if he has a counter view.

A difference of opinion is fine but to claim that protesters are hooligans is clearly nonsense and he needs to be called out about it.

Onlyme

Michael E Tucker
Mick E Taker
Piss taker
Tosser!

EveshamAddick

Perhaps someone local can write a riposte, with a handy checklist of the regimes foul ups.

Oggy Red

He does ask, "Am I missing the point?"


Answers on a postcard, please.

Airman Brown

It is all the work of a "handful of agitators who are bent on bringing this club to its knees", says Roland our correspondent. Shouldn't be difficult to deal with that then, should it?

This is at the heart of the regime's view. It is what they believe and what they tell anyone who will listen to them. There is no problem with anything they are doing. It is all the fault of the "agitators". They believe it because they must, otherwise they have to face their own shortcomings, but it is hugely insulting to the majority of supporters, never mind the "agitators" themselves.

iainment

One person writes letter.
Thousands protest and boycott.
Please tell me who represents Charlton fans?

Isawsummersplay

I have clocked up 57 years supporting the Addicks. I am a North Lower season ticket holder. I have joined in with every protest to date and will continue to do so for as long as necessary. Anyone suggesting that the actions I have participated in are a form of 'hooliganism' has lead a very sheltered life. To also suggest that I am being influenced and lead by a small band of agitators is, quite frankly, an insult.