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Article in Guardian

Amazed nobody has commented on this.
 

Article in Guardian

From the clues I reckon it's Mark Chapman.
 

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Banana said:
From the clues I reckon it's Mark Chapman.
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There are now over 100 supporters' trusts across England, Wales and Scotland, with 61 holding equity within their clubs and four League clubs - Brentford, Chesterfield, Rushden & Diamonds and Stockport County - being run outright by supporters.
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........and from the clues I reckon it's anybody but Chappers.

Brentford is not.... "being run outright by supporters"........that may be the garbage fed to the masses but it doesn't live like it reads believe me.

It's being run by a largely unelected board with a majority of "investor directors" i.e. those who have been able to scribble out cheques of £200k or more because they either wanted to save the club or fancied being on the board of a football league club. That is the reality.
 

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abee said:
........and from the clues I reckon it's anybody but Chappers.

Brentford is not.... "being run outright by supporters"........that may be the garbage fed to the masses but it doesn't live like it reads believe me.

It's being run by a largely unelected board with a majority of "investor directors" i.e. those who have been able to scribble out cheques of £200k or more because they either wanted to save the club or fancied being on the board of a football league club. That is the reality.
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You are correct of course. Bees United do not "run" the club; nor do they have the majority of directors on the BFC Board......

I still reckon it's Chapman :D
 

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Out him!!!! ;)
 

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Whichever club it is - and the details mentioned above suggest it isn't Brentford - it's interesting to note the fine lines between variously the development of a bunker mentality among a supporters trust board, the difficulty for trust boards in differentiating feedback from abuse, the difficulty for trust members in giving passionate feedback without it sounding like abuse and the apparently universal failure to adequately communicate the organisational structure that distinguishes trust executive from club executive.

The decision of the author to anonymise the club detracts significantly from the article imo. Without the context of the Trust's history, Club's current position and key issues, it's very hard to put some pretty melodramatic gripery into any sort of context.
 

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Whoever it is .......he or possibly she is pathetic.

We've had this stuff at Brentford for years........why I remember (I can't type for a minute I'm going all dewy eyed with nostalgia).....when one of our directors wives was receiving threatening and abusive phone calls......did he sob about it and run crying to the local papers for another photo op......did he heck........ he sent the wife and kids into the cellar, told them to lock the door until he was back, went to his gun cabinet and went fearlessly out into the streets to face down the so-called supporters abusing his wife snarling :-

"I'll be back and when I do you'll find my bite is a lot worse than my bark and furthermore........"

........by the way .....where is thefatcd these days.......I really miss slapping him around. :)
 

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abee said:
Whoever it is .......he or possibly she is pathetic.

We've had this stuff at Brentford for years........why I remember (I can't type for a minute I'm going all dewy eyed with nostalgia).....when one of our directors wives was receiving threatening and abusive phone calls......did he sob about it and run crying to the local papers for another photo op......did he heck........ he sent the wife and kids into the cellar, told them to lock the door until he was back, went to his gun cabinet and went fearlessly out into the streets to face down the so-called supporters snarling :-

"I'll be back and when I do you'll find my bite is a lot worse than my bark and furthermore........"

........by the way .....where is thefatcd these days.......I really miss slapping him around. :)
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Fear not abee. We were told that the said director resigned from the BFC Board so he could hunt down and administer a chinese burn to those supporters that discovered he had two dates of birth :D
 

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Banana said:
Fear not abee. We were told that the said director resigned from the BFC Board so he could hunt down and administer a chinese burn to those supporters that discovered he had two dates of birth :D
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:(

I'm bleeding internally from panic........
 

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abee said:
Brentford is not.... "being run outright by supporters"........that may be the garbage fed to the masses but it doesn't live like it reads believe me.

It's being run by a largely unelected board with a majority of "investor directors" i.e. those who have been able to scribble out cheques of £200k or more because they either wanted to save the club or fancied being on the board of a football league club. That is the reality.
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Unfortunately it seems the Bees United board appear quite happy for this mis-perception to last.
 
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