Are 1878 Any Good

Quoted from MuddyWaters

One of several Partridge moments. The vomit coloured leather jacket was my favourite.

For an Alan Partridge moment nothing beats the Fenty tour of Blundell Park.

Totally cringeworthy , I still can’t believe his sycophantic lap dogs let him put it out . It’s still on YouTube, I  would post a link but don’t know how, if anyone doubts what an improvement the new owners are just look it up.

Quoted from Captaincod

For an Alan Partridge moment nothing beats the Fenty tour of Blundell Park.

Totally cringeworthy , I still can’t believe his sycophantic lap dogs let him put it out . It’s still on YouTube, I  would post a link but don’t know how, if anyone doubts what an improvement the new owners are just look it up.

I’d like to see this again pure comedy gold

I like the photo copied picture of Bill Shankly obviously sellotaped to the boot room wall before filming and the sink for the lady refs remark!
Also a bit too “hands on” with the ladies in the ticket office!
1878 have made mistakes , but could you ever imagine JS involving himself in something like this ?
It is funny but also tragic , so many people failed to tell Emporer John that
he was wearing no clothes .

Quoted from MuddyWaters

One of several Partridge moments. The vomit coloured leather jacket was my favourite.

The snooker table interview, the turtle neck jumper, the flag deconstruction incident, the infamous fans forum . The list is endless .
Only time will tell if 1878 are any good or not , but surely they couldn’t be worse than our previous non chairman/ principal funder?

Compared to the last owner they are a thousand % better.

So I am happy they are here.

Quoted from pen penfras

The way it was done was obviously going to be unpopular and was a politician's move in that the £200k was donated to the club by reducing the loans by that amount. If he had put money in, there'd have been another 200k of loans to repay.

It's not all that dissimilar to some of the statements coming out now which imply a lot of money has been put in but no mention of where it's going. Feels like the money spent on buying the club is being advertised as investments. I guess we need to wait another year until the accounts come out to know the answer to that

I was under the impression that the shares were gifted to JF and not the club. Did he give the new owners the shares or did he sell them to them?

Quoted from rancido

I was under the impression that the shares were gifted to JF and not the club. Did he give the new owners the shares or did he sell them to them?

Every share was worth £1, he got 200,000 of them when he blackmailed Trust members and received £1 for every share in his possession when he sold the club, thus making £200,000 of pure profit on the sale of his shares.

Not bad for 20 years of decline is it?

like to comment further pen???

He stole them. Simple as that, but then did we expect anything less?

I only included things which linked to cash in my list, naturally I have an endless list of embarrassing, Partridge, egomaniacal and down right flipping gross things but as the discussion was about funds and money I kept it to those…

I remember the sink video well; a slot on socceram, some National coverage in what was a dreadful point in our history, even then but alas, even socceram were cringing, and it was still in the time of the soccerette and monkey tennis, coming out of FHM and Loaded, the Nuts and Zoo era and yet, he still managed to make it creepy and cringey…

There were many moments like this, in fact the last time I listed them I reckon it took me a good half hour to write the post.

The terrifying issue was the sycophancy and the cult like supper he received from those who seemingly benefitted from him…I had the misfortune of being in a pub one particular Saturday. We’d be excrement as was usually the case and some fans were discussing the state of the club, being relatively calm about it really but one of his brothers was in, naturally got himself embroiled in the discussion.

I thought it was out of brotherly love, perhaps he felt it necessary to defend his ‘pilloried’ brother but alas, I was wrong. It simply to chant the same mantra of honest John, a mantra that quickly had its holes picked and, as expected the conversation turned to ‘I don’t see anyone else queuing up’ and ‘nobody else could do it’…then comments about his wealth and god knows what..:

All very bizarre given his brother was claiming to supper the club yet was blind and ignorant to the concerns and woes of supporters who have no doubt been going longer and significantly more times than honest John…

These are all discussion points resized whilst he was owner of our beloved club, it extends beyond that but in this context it’s irrelevant….