voyeur
Well-known member
We will have to agree to differ. But you folks can stop using words like love-in and saint cos it's just facetious. People like me see a massive difference between Oyston and Belokon, which is not delusional. It's delusional to not see the massive difference, and you're even sounding like an Oyston apologist tbh. You did say though...He’s approximating based on the facts that are all publicly available (not guessing) and in all likelihood he’s underestimating the financial gain.
I’ve not called him a low-life, but I am realistic enough to understand that his involvement with our Club wasn’t borne out of a sense of altruism, that his investment involved buying shares off Oyston (and was therefore also Oystons investment), that Oyston has previously put huge sums of money into the club to keep it afloat (including rebuilding two new stands), that Oystons (Karl and Owen) oversaw the day to day running of the club (managerial appointments and player recruitment) and that they too played a fundamental role in our ‘lucky’ premier league experience.
Now you (and others) can rewrite history and airbrush the truth all you like. I was happy to do so in the midst of a war with Oyston…. However, if we cannot be honest with ourselves in acknowledging the facts as they were, then to me there’s no point having a discussion.
There’s no need to put Belokon into the same bracket as Oyston…. He didn’t sue fans and in all likelihood I think he would have continued to reinvest the PL money into the Club, had Oyston not done what he did.
As I must have said a dozen times, I don’t bear him any malice, I’m just not under any illusions either. He was part of one of the best periods on our history (as we’re the Oystons)…. He wasn’t responsible for it going sour, that was entirely the Oystons … Karl’s short term business methods, which had served him (and us) so well started to catch up with him, his penny pinching cost us PL survival and Owen’s greed was the ultimate downfall…
However, despite all of that…. Belokon’s willingness to get involved with SISA was sparked not out of any calls for help, but out of a potential option to retrieve his cash….. His subsequent pursuit of Oyston in the courts was about financial recovery (I acknowledge regime changes was an eventual by product) and despite an unexpectedly generous award from the judge, he has walked away with the lot.
We got our Club back, but to me, If we want to hold anyone up in the highest esteem for that, you can thank TAM for his genius in uncovering an angle than led to their demise…..As well as others who took bullets on behalf of the fanbase (Raggy, Afro, Jez etc..).
"He didn’t sue fans and in all likelihood I think he would have continued to reinvest the PL money into the Club, had Oyston not done what he did."
The outcome was down to the Oystons. He invested, they screwed him over. He went to court. He won. They tried to avoid paying and dragged it out and probably never paid in full. 3 people in the story. Two complete cunts, and 9ne foreign investor who did all the right things and changed our club for the better for ever, but got screwed over. He didn't expect to make a profit in court but I don't begrudge him keeping it given everything he put in and all the shit he went through at the hands of those two arseholes.