if this is the same Saif Rubie, as in the Guardian article, is the type of person we want involved with our club. I repeat that I am not at all happy with who is taking over our club.
Mother Theresa, Tony Hart and Mary Berry are lining up a bid for Newcastle. Sorry to disappoint. Get used to it.
no I won't
Go on then Lancs. What's the particular problem with this lot then, in your humble opinion?
if this is the same Saif Rubie, as in the Guardian article, is the type of person we want involved with our club. I repeat that I am not at all happy with who is taking over our club.
Mother Theresa, Tony Hart and Mary Berry are lining up a bid for Newcastle. Sorry to disappoint. Get used to it.
no I won't
Go on then Lancs. What's the particular problem with this lot then, in your humble opinion?
if this is the same Saif Rubie, as in the Guardian article, is the type of person we want involved with our club. I repeat that I am not at all happy with who is taking over our club.
Mother Theresa, Tony Hart and Mary Berry are lining up a bid for Newcastle. Sorry to disappoint. Get used to it.
no I won't
Go on then Lancs. What's the particular problem with this lot then, in your humble opinion?
read the current VoTV
Jesus mate. That's all conjecture. And not a single word on the real money man.
Airman just whipping up a bit of caution, mainly because it's not Varney involved ;-)
Think you need to chill out a bit and see where this is really heading before you condemn this lot to the Belgian bin.
if this is the same Saif Rubie, as in the Guardian article, is the type of person we want involved with our club. I repeat that I am not at all happy with who is taking over our club.
Mother Theresa, Tony Hart and Mary Berry are lining up a bid for Newcastle. Sorry to disappoint. Get used to it.
no I won't
Go on then Lancs. What's the particular problem with this lot then, in your humble opinion?
read the current VoTV
How about some cliff notes for those of us that cant?
I’m more confident than ever that the deal will be rubber stamped very soon. As for these guys at the game today, seems to me they are mates with Southall and there is nothing to suggest they have anything to do officially with the new regime. Let’s not get our knickers in a twist just yet.
if this is the same Saif Rubie, as in the Guardian article, is the type of person we want involved with our club. I repeat that I am not at all happy with who is taking over our club.
Mother Theresa, Tony Hart and Mary Berry are lining up a bid for Newcastle. Sorry to disappoint. Get used to it.
no I won't
Go on then Lancs. What's the particular problem with this lot then, in your humble opinion?
read the current VoTV
Jesus mate. That's all conjecture. And not a single word on the real money man.
Airman just whipping up a bit of caution, mainly because it's not Varney involved ;-)
Think you need to chill out a bit and see where this is really heading before you condemn this lot to the Belgian bin.
Conjecture? I don’t think so.
I’ve not offered a definitive view on this takeover because I don’t have one, but the link to the 2010 takeover bid which involved the convicted fraudster Paul Anthony Garland and which was described in parliament as involving “a bunch of crooks” is not conjecture.
Neither is Matt Southall’s appearance with Laurence Bassini in April - you can find the pictures of them together in the ground if you look. Bassini was banned for three years for his earlier activities at Watford.
I’ve only published the stories I can substantiate myself but there are others, as the wider media is aware and so, no doubt, are the EFL, but that doesn’t mean the takeover won’t be ratified. And we make the best of whatever happens, is my view. But it isn’t conjecture.
I will say again that Charlton have had dubious owners for most of nearly 100 years existence, since we stopped being a boys club. I really don't think the bar is that high for ESI to show some ambition and improve the infrastructure of cafc. Maybe the "strange" will become clear, but I feel they know the response already if they take liberties or employ inept people in senior positions. A Fanzine's purpose is to put information about the behind the scenes into the public domain: Otherwise Fanzines would be called official Programmes and run by the club. I'm struggling to see how ESI won't be a big step forward on Duchatelet, but the fans have been bitten so many times in the past that you half expect a skeleton to be found in the EFL search.
I couldn't give a shit really. Almost any new owner must be better that RD......a bloke who decided that he would not supply water bottles in the summer, or on gaining promotion decided the manager wasn't good enough for a long term contract & wouldn't strengthen the team either.
Anyway.......the EFL "fit & proper" test can only stop a convicted person from owning a football club (and only convicted of fraud, embezzlement & bankruptcy as for as I'm aware). There is no reason (apart from dual ownership) to stop the new owners buying us.
I'm not on Twitter so dont "follow" anyone but was has been said that Saif Rubie posted just seems to me the usual rubbish that all & sundry post on Twitter or instagram.......mainly childish & puerile. Some of you need to lighten up a little.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
I’m more confident than ever that the deal will be rubber stamped very soon. As for these guys at the game today, seems to me they are mates with Southall and there is nothing to suggest they have anything to do officially with the new regime. Let’s not get our knickers in a twist just yet.
Exactly. There are so many people looking for something to moan about.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Yep , no one ever gets through the net
Actually, I think that the fit and proper tests should be done by our fans...
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Yep , no one ever gets through the net
Actually, I think that the fit and proper tests should be done by our fans...
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
If the prospective owners were dodgy I think that the takeover would have been rejected by now.
Yep , no one ever gets through the net
Actually, I think that the fit and proper tests should be done by our fans...
Same old same old people already protective of our potential new owners just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us . Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one . For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”
Excellent summary, Oohaah. Saved me the trouble of saying it, albeit without your unique use of language.
Could separate threads be created for fueds and the ensuing comments? Wading through it on here is a pain in the backside. Or DM each other. Or just hug it out.
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Airman just whipping up a bit of caution, mainly because it's not Varney involved ;-)
Think you need to chill out a bit and see where this is really heading before you condemn this lot to the Belgian bin.
My VOTV won't arrive for a few weeks.
I’ve not offered a definitive view on this takeover because I don’t have one, but the link to the 2010 takeover bid which involved the convicted fraudster Paul Anthony Garland and which was described in parliament as involving “a bunch of crooks” is not conjecture.
Neither is Matt Southall’s appearance with Laurence Bassini in April - you can find the pictures of them together in the ground if you look. Bassini was banned for three years for his earlier activities at Watford.
I’ve only published the stories I can substantiate myself but there are others, as the wider media is aware and so, no doubt, are the EFL, but that doesn’t mean the takeover won’t be ratified. And we make the best of whatever happens, is my view. But it isn’t conjecture.
A Fanzine's purpose is to put information about the behind the scenes into the public domain: Otherwise Fanzines would be called official Programmes and run by the club.
I'm struggling to see how ESI won't be a big step forward on Duchatelet, but the fans have been bitten so many times in the past that you half expect a skeleton to be found in the EFL search.
Anyway.......the EFL "fit & proper" test can only stop a convicted person from owning a football club (and only convicted of fraud, embezzlement & bankruptcy as for as I'm aware). There is no reason (apart from dual ownership) to stop the new owners buying us.
I'm not on Twitter so dont "follow" anyone but was has been said that Saif Rubie posted just seems to me the usual rubbish that all & sundry post on Twitter or instagram.......mainly childish & puerile. Some of you need to lighten up a little.
From what I have read today it could be out of the frying pan into. the frying pan
people already protective of our potential new owners
just like loads were ready to drop to their knees and gobble the old Helmet up when he came in .
personally I just want the rat gone at any cost cos I am anyone but him
Plenty of Charlton fans precious of any criticism whatsoever will turn a blind eye to any old shit, as happened with the mismanagement of us over the years by Roly .
The slowness of ratification by the EFL says to me they’re not purer than pure but who is .
Smells of the Kevin Cash spiv regime , with all the best soundbites and a little bit of smellyness thrown in .
All this rich club bollox will I’m sure be a long way from the truth .
If Taylor goes , then there’s the biggest clue any one could get about how ambitious this new ownership will be . He is a must keep if we are to have any real ambitions .
Why would anyone (Charlton fan apart ) in their sane mind want to own us .
Its loss making and even if we were to reach the Prem (unless they did a Blackpool and went up and kept the money straight off) the costs involved to stay there will eventually eat you up , never mind the huge outlay risk you’ll realistically need to get there .
Im not greedy , just finish above the scum, in The Championship, I’ll take with a gentle foray into the Prem , so my kids can have Match Attax Charlton card excitement rather than getting grief from me if I see them holding a palace one .
For now, just get rid of the old scrote and give us all a “helmet free” taste of Charlton again and then we can see/worry about the “strange”new incumbents as time goes by .
as some wise old cardigan wearing curator once said “ it’s gonna be a bumpy ride”