"All your club are belong to us… for six months until we sell again."
Forget the dire East Coast weather outside. Doesn’t it feel good to be justified every once in a while? I was worried I’d need to retract a 1300+ word rant about careless ownership and the FA’s complicity in their ineptitude, but mercifully, the truth rang out.
After some nervy moments while Portsmouth FC assembled their legal teams against the shady “third party” who printed that glorious story about their uncaring owner last week, as well as threatening legal action against anyone who publicized it, we learn that they were bluffing… and hard.
On Friday night, with journos prepping their preambles for a fresh weekend of EPL action, the club meekly admitted that the interview with money-hungry, clueless new owner Ali Al-Faraj was in fact true. Whoops.
“…Portsmouth have since removed that statement from their site, and told Observer Sport they now accept Ali al‑Faraj spoke to the newspaper, though they did not comment on the content of the interview and claimed he believed the conversation was not for publication.”
Let’s hope for their sake this all goes away quickly, eh? Not good when the world knows your owner is uncaring, unknowledgeable and not very rich. Shit, just ask Liverpool fans.
Why did the Guardian back down and drop the story then? Were they just afraid of being sued?
But a really nice job by Faraj to drive down the price of something you want to sell in 6-months, by telling everyone you want to sell in 6-months.
I’m guessing the fit and proper test doesn’t include an IQ test portion, because to admit this to a newspaper is idiotic.