abee said:
Yes he was one of two executive directors but the Southampton ticket fiasco was nothing to with him and seemingly the recent financial decisions taken (with which he appears to have disagreed) were also........er nothing to do with him. It sounds to me as if the finances are not in (shall we say) perfect shape but remember you heard it here first than none of this was anything to do with John MacGlashan.
You may also recall that I posted on the GPG a week or so ago that I had emailed Brian Burgess to say that I did not now believe that MacGlashan should be allowed to resign from the board........but nobody asked me why........
After speaking to JM at the last City Bees meeting, I stopped criticising him on the GPG out of sympathy. I had asked him about the Southampton fiasco and he replied 'That was the second worst day of my life' - in other words, admitting his part in it.
Having read JM's feeble defence of himself in the Richmond comic, I have decided that my sympathy has been misplaced...
Also at the meeting was Arfur Daley - sorry, DW - who, when I asked whether as per a chairman's statement, JM had been helping him at Lionel Road, turned the question into a big joke. 'Did you know you were supposed to be helping me, John?' he said. 'No' said JM, turning the question into a bigger joke. 'I didn't.'
The puppet glove that calls himself a chairman stated that he was in his statement. One, or all three, were lying.
When JM, Arfur and King were in a car down at Southampton trying to rescue the tickets cock-up, they phoned GP and said it was down to Southampton and that the Hampshire police had backed the BFC claim. They were asked if they were sure of that - and said they were. We all know the truth of that one.
It took fictional re-writes by Graham F Hall to rectify that little balls-up
When Brentford were staring into the abyss after being beaten at home by Stockport, I attended a BU meeting - where myself and committee member John Huggins stated that without doubt we needed a new manager to replace Wally Downes. JM argued against it.
We later learned that he was in the process of negotiating a new two year contract with Downes. Only some direct action by concerned fans stopped that - and even then he wanted time to go through applications, etc.
He later tried to claim credit for Martin Allen's appointment by implying that he knew rapid action was required.
When the Tea Boy paid out for the cancellation of a trip to the Noades golf course in double fast time, I asked JM why it had been done so quickly. 'What's that got to do with BU?' he asked me. The answer, of course, was everything - but he couldn't see it.
Morale in the BFC offices was at a low ebb under his stewardship - he hadn't a clue about running things and it showed. One man described him as 'a cancer within the club.'
I could go on about other shortcomings, but they are almost endless.
The final straw for me is that inane interview in the Richmond Romper. To try and shaft BU on the eve of the option possibly being taken up makes Judas look like a saint.
Given the denseness of the glove puppet and the defence of JM by the puppet, I just wonder if there is a hidden agenda.
