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lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Do you have evidence of the bus mate. Photos preferred. Were the police contacted
lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Everyone should get shirts with I had Denise in a headlock with a laughing emoji
Is Mr Wright the definitive voice on all brings soccer Mr Matto?
ToffeePaulie
Player Valuation: £750k
Trouble is that those divs who chased Gordon has put credence to their concerns whether they are true or not. I think this could get nasty and someone might get really hurt. I hope it doesn't happen though.Was talking to a friend and ended up with this big long vent and he said I should post it here. sorry if it’s a bit long, I’ve never written one of these before - I am just a humble Twitter shitposter on the daily. Cheers for reading
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It’s been a strange fortnight, but maybe this is the beginning of the final act of Everton as a tragedy.
Headlockgate is proving that, if nothing else, that the board at Everton is at best incompetent, at medium have their own agendas, and at worse, are trying to throw fans under the bus to save their own skins.
First off:
Let’s look at the situation as if it didn’t happen/is just a big misunderstanding.
This makes it look like people on the board are actively lying about fans to disparage them in the press. They’re throwing fans under the bus to tarnish the protest and the sit-ins. They think that the best course of action is to portray fans as an unmanageable rabble - violent, and thuggish, and who don’t understand all the good times we’ve had.
This is coming directly after “Moshiri”’s letter and the holy show of his Jim White phone call.
So they must know what they’re doing.
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Next, the even worse option: that it actually did happen. That the club CEO, a 5’0 woman, was headlocked by an angry fan.
For whatever reason, be it location, timing, whatever, it does not seem to have been caught on camera - or that footage has not been released, and there doesn’t appear to have been close protection officers protecting the CEO of a Premier League football club (which is incompetence in and of itself, that someone was able to get that close to her).
There are several things here:
1. Based on the screenshots and statements from plod, this hasn't been reported. Maybe DBB didn’t want to press charges. Maybe it’s being dealt with privately. Maybe the club are keeping this hush-hush because the CEO being allegedly attacked by a fan is a huge embarrassment, and indicative of how acrimonious things may have become.
Either way, for two weeks, nothing has been said, and nothing came out of the club - not even via the usual leaky suspects.
2. Someone therefore went directly against this omertà, and leaked it to give the press reason to turn on the fans.
3. This, then, looks like either:
A) The board aren’t listening or talking to each-other
B) The board are actively disagreeing on how to handle things, and doing their own things independently
or
C) The board waited 11 days to weaponise a member of staff being attacked.
4. This also means that the board itself seems to be split on how to handle the fans and the fan protests.
How can they be expected to do their actual jobs — running a football club — if they can’t agree on a single path of action (handling the fans). If one of them tries to take one road, the other three go digging another. Some call their own individual journalist friends and declare a publicity war on the club’s own fans — their own paying customers — the same ones they refer to as representing as The People’s Club.
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The worst part of it all is, either the club admits it lied to try to drag the fans - a frankly nuclear option - or it releases proof of the alleged attack; at which point, it's been two weeks of silence. Why? Why wasn’t this immediately proven, before the memes and jokes and suspicion started? At the base of it, we’re dealing with the possibility of someone being literally attacked. And this is how the club are handling it.
It’s embarrassing whichever way you spin it - either there are thugs amongst us, or they are liars.
How does Everton come back from something like that?
lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Could have been worse though in Afghanistan they use RPGs and AK47s at roadblocks
lol
erm i dunno my mate ?
COYB75
Player Valuation: £5m
He definitely is, it’s been confirmed somewhere, I’m almost certain!
magicjuan
Player Valuation: £60m
It was Man City's bus, there's nothing to be seen...
Said a spomesman for Merseyside Police
lancs blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Thing is no doubt Jim White asked Moshiri questions for him to respond
Jim White makes a living out of "his contacts"
Pressure should be put on him to get the truth. He's too happy to light fire and run a mile before the explosion, only to sit there laughing at the after effects
Jim White makes a living out of "his contacts"
Pressure should be put on him to get the truth. He's too happy to light fire and run a mile before the explosion, only to sit there laughing at the after effects
TheSouthernBlue
Player Valuation: £500k
Very good post, nice analytical view of it.
There’s only one part I disagree with is querying how could someone get that close to her. Admittedly through this I’ve spent more time at OT than I have Goodison since the pandemic, but I’ve stood in large crowds outside of OT walking next to David Gill (giant of a man) and there has been no security, just him walking alone in a suit, nodding to various fans and saying hello.
The executive lounges at OT are an open conversation between members and their guests, in a blink of an eye first team players, executives etc walk in or pop to the bar. I assume it’s the same at Goodison given the supposed events of the DBB story where a members guest likely was aggressive to her.
It would be a sad day if we as a club had to get security in to protect a board member(s), we are not West Ham, we are Everton. Peaceful protests required, unfortunately the very very small minority giving it to Gordon outside the ground (deserved or not) has given credence to the DBB story.
There’s only one part I disagree with is querying how could someone get that close to her. Admittedly through this I’ve spent more time at OT than I have Goodison since the pandemic, but I’ve stood in large crowds outside of OT walking next to David Gill (giant of a man) and there has been no security, just him walking alone in a suit, nodding to various fans and saying hello.
The executive lounges at OT are an open conversation between members and their guests, in a blink of an eye first team players, executives etc walk in or pop to the bar. I assume it’s the same at Goodison given the supposed events of the DBB story where a members guest likely was aggressive to her.
It would be a sad day if we as a club had to get security in to protect a board member(s), we are not West Ham, we are Everton. Peaceful protests required, unfortunately the very very small minority giving it to Gordon outside the ground (deserved or not) has given credence to the DBB story.
Charlie Sweet
Player Valuation: £35m
Absolutely tosh.
The attack,/assault was specifc to.our CEO as a consequence of her position (and likely physical vulnerability at the time). Just because some lunatic knuckle dragger attacks in this way there's no reason to suggest they will go off and attack another fan. Stop making things up.
I can perfectly understand how the club and CEO took the decision not to prosectue and make a thing of it. Which would reflect badly on everyone.
I bet many on here have seen/experienced a crime and could press charges but decided the aggro just isn't worth it.
Also this "leak" could easily have been unsanctioned and/or inadvertent.
There's no smoke without fire. Fans behaviour has been poor on many occasions of late and we need to own it now seek out wild conspiracy theories.
None of that excuses the board from.being terrible at their jobs. They are an absolute joke (collectively) and of course I want them replaced. But these are separate matters.
Charlie, you're talking as if this has actually happened, did you witness it ? Have you irrefutable proof ? Is there a video of it and you've saw it ? Did Denise snuggle up to you and tell you ? Have Everton pressed charges against the assailant ? Has someone admitted to it ?
If the answer to all these things is No (and it is supposed to have happened two weeks ago,) then there is a good chance it never happened, it is made up and it is not true. So take you're pathetic little accusations against fellow blues and shove them where the Sun don't shine. As far as I can see no one else on this site is saying it's true except you, so prove it or pipe down.
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