Do you believe the "Headlock" allegation?

[Efcjake]

The board obviously have used it as a way to worm away from the match on Saturday - but that doesn't mean something didn't happen.

I've not followed this story tbh but from what I've seen on here I wouldn't look too much into the police not being reported of it tbh.

How many times have you been pushed or shoved in Concert Square on a night oot - and how many times would you bother to inform the plod over a bit of handbags?

Nobody breathed a word of this claim until two hours before the match. Police say they haven't been contacted.

No evidence has been produced, nobody had claimed to have witnessed the incident.

We simply have a baseless claim from an anonymous source in the club making a serious allegation against the support.

When you couple this with the timing of the announcement I think it's fair to say the claim is suspect.

 

[Wat Tyler]

People saying “probably not headlock but maybe manhandled.” - even if that’s true, which I don’t believe is, it doesn’t matter now, because everyone, every media outlet and every blue is talking about a middle aged woman been put in an armpit. So they cannot climb down now.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Everton board member subjected to robbery and assault

GBH

 

[Zeitgeist]

Absolutely not

 

[Rita_Poon]

We didn’t start the fire…

oh go on...

 

[allen]

Not everything is black or white - always two sides to every story.

Yep. The problem with the way most polls are constructed.

 

[Wat Tyler]

The board obviously have used it as a way to worm away from the match on Saturday - but that doesn't mean something didn't happen.

I've not followed this story tbh but from what I've seen on here I wouldn't look too much into the police not being reported of it tbh.

How many times have you been pushed or shoved in Concert Square on a night oot - and how many times would you bother to inform the plod over a bit of handbags?

Then if it’s handbags why are the board making out they’re scared for the lives from the Walton Boko Haram.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Exactly.

Im trying to imagine a scenario where a fan has ran up and grabbed her and had her in a headlock British Bulldog style, and its farcical that that couldve happened, especially with no witnesses.

But lets put it another way. Is there a possibility, at any time, that someone couldve perhaps asked to pose for a photo and been a little heavy handed, put their arm around her shoulder, maybe a little more tightly or aggressively than she was expecting and shes been shook by it and panicked, and the idea of going to a game in midst of a protest in which she has been singled out and named, and knowing that there are always a group of idiots who take things too far, she has recalled this and this decided against it?

For me, if anyone of them felt threatened to attend, they had every right not to turn up, and anyone who suggests otherwise is mad.

You can get chucked out for standing up too often or vaping. The idea that getting handsy with the sodding CEO would result in no action beyond a leak to the echo a week and a half later is insane.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

The board obviously have used it as a way to worm away from the match on Saturday - but that doesn't mean something didn't happen.

I've not followed this story tbh but from what I've seen on here I wouldn't look too much into the police not being reported of it tbh.

How many times have you been pushed or shoved in Concert Square on a night oot - and how many times would you bother to inform the plod over a bit of handbags?

This comparison doesn't work unless you manage Modo and decide not to lash the fella out for grabbing you whilst you're at work.

 

[trueblue84]

It's irrelevant now. If it happened, the club's Comms have been shocking and they've failed to publicly condemn a disgusting act. If it didn't happen, they've allowed the fans to take a public beating.

Either way, they don't come away with the moral high ground or any shred of respect from evertonians.

 

[Kever10]

You can get chucked out for standing up too often or vaping. The idea that getting handsy with the sodding CEO would result in no action beyond a leak to the echo a week and a half later is insane.

See this is the thing though, i read the initial statement, and i saw no reference to "headlock" before the supposed "leak".

It wouldnt be like a newspaper to embelish something to a quoteable, sensationalist sounbite would it?

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Then if it’s handbags why are the board making out they’re scared for the lives from the Walton Boko Haram.

I would imagine its a mixture of them using the situation to their advantage but potentially also there were seperate reports that Kenwrong has received death threats.

Now I wouldn't believe Kenwright if he told me it was Tuesday tomorrow but you cant 100% say for sure that he hasn't received threats.

For me to 100% claim that its all lies without evidence would mean I believe the 40k packing into Goodison every weekend are all God fearing salt of the earth folk and not a single one has the potential to act inappropriately particularly at a time of fan unrest and frustration... which is frankly delusional.

 

[Lobster Johnson]

See this is the thing though, i read the initial statement, and i saw no reference to "headlock" before the supposed "leak".

It wouldnt be like a newspaper to embelish something to a quoteable, sensationalist sounbite would it?

"Placed in a headlock" was in quotation marks. That means that the journo can substantiate it through notes or a recording. Fabricating quotes is career suicide for a journalist.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Something might have happened. Find the headlock allegation bizarre and hard to understand how it could have happened inside the ground. Without evidence I just can't believe it.

 

[Kever10]

But lets put it another way. Is there a possibility, at any time, that someone couldve perhaps asked to pose for a photo and been a little heavy handed, put their arm around her shoulder, maybe a little more tightly or aggressively than she was expecting and shes been shook by it and panicked, and the idea of going to a game in midst of a protest in which she has been singled out and named, and knowing that there are always a group of idiots who take things too far, she has recalled this and this decided against it?





In absolute tears at this Kev. It's almost as good as the initial headlock allegation. 8/10 for effort mate.
Can you get me an ounce of whatever you're smoking please mate?

Thanks

Just a strong dose of over the counter codeine does it for me. Started for my knee, but it works wonders for Everton as well.