- Jun 6, 2005
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The more I think about it, the more the timing of the other day makes sense.
ESL was always going to blow up, so bury the Jose sacking - something which on a normal day would've been all over the back pages - then smother it in ice cream by appointing Mason - a known fan favorite - as the boss until further notice.
We're almost a footnote in the ESL "scandal", we're the, "oh, yeah, and Spurs" and I don't see our fans picketing in number large enough that they wouldn't immediately blend in with a normal match-day crowd, so as a PR chicane goes, Levy has maneuvered around this one pretty well, imo.
Even if he does end up taking a stomping for even suggesting we might be involved, staying quiet is very much his m.o.,* and I think at least us and the Woolwich have a pretty fair stab at arguing that, with the prospect of our direct competitors declaring their interest, we'd have been business idiots to have not at least expressed an interest, and argue that Perez, or whoever that other dude was fronting this up, jumped the gun in announcing they were solidly involved or something.
It'll be long, and boring, and a lot of finger pointing will go on, but ultimately... I stopped caring about * here
ESL was always going to blow up, so bury the Jose sacking - something which on a normal day would've been all over the back pages - then smother it in ice cream by appointing Mason - a known fan favorite - as the boss until further notice.
We're almost a footnote in the ESL "scandal", we're the, "oh, yeah, and Spurs" and I don't see our fans picketing in number large enough that they wouldn't immediately blend in with a normal match-day crowd, so as a PR chicane goes, Levy has maneuvered around this one pretty well, imo.
Even if he does end up taking a stomping for even suggesting we might be involved, staying quiet is very much his m.o.,* and I think at least us and the Woolwich have a pretty fair stab at arguing that, with the prospect of our direct competitors declaring their interest, we'd have been business idiots to have not at least expressed an interest, and argue that Perez, or whoever that other dude was fronting this up, jumped the gun in announcing they were solidly involved or something.
It'll be long, and boring, and a lot of finger pointing will go on, but ultimately... I stopped caring about * here