Best post ever!! What a sensible fucker!

On Feb 1, 2014, at 6:02 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> It's a match day and unusually I'm not in my Highland retreat contemplating 
> life under a Nationalist jackboot. I was travelling most of yesterday but I 
> kept in touch with the Leeds saga via the list, Twitter and Facebook. It 
> became very clear early on that our friends from GFH were no better (and 
> probably no worse) than any of our previous owners, post Leslie Silver (and 
> he left a few unanswered queries in his in tray). For ALL of these people 
> Leeds United has not really been about the notion of club, team or (heaven 
> forfend) the supporters. It's always been about money and self. Just compare 
> the self confessed "fan's representative on the board", Ridsdale and the 
> outpourings of failed Tory Boy, Haigh. Pimps at best.
> 
> The real issue here is not the quality of journeymen players (we all know why 
> they work at Elland Road, the days of side before self are a distant memory). 
> It is not the tribulation of an embattled manager trying to make a silk purse 
> out of a pig's ear either. Nope, it's the whole rotten core at the heart of a 
> so called sport where a few very rich men can guarantee themselves a very 
> lucrative plaything, a plaything that is shiny sparkly and oozing sex. Where 
> else can they get that? Cricket? Tennis? Probably only in Formula 1.
> 
> There is a long line of wannabes peering in to this world, mostly without a 
> pot to piss in or looking to use someone else's cash to get a piece of this 
> action. Action which in the main is uncontrolled because the very people who 
> benefit most are in charge!
> 
> Until there is regulation this will always be the way and when have we ever 
> seen regulation work in our society? Just look at the hordes of bean counters 
> ensuring massive corporations avoid paying tax.
> 
> The supposed nobility of the fans is all we are left with. In the unlikely 
> event of mass dissent (English football is not The Ukraine) we might see 
> change but as I say unlikely.
> 
> So what are we left with? All we can do is cheer on our team of journeymen in 
> the hope we have 3 points at 4:45pm. My ear will be glued to the radio for 
> the results but this afternoon I will be more concerned with another world 
> here in Gwent.
> 
> We are Leeds (not them fuckers)
> 
> Betty
> 
> 
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> John 'Grampa' Sykes
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