DerekWilson_1968

Ticker on beeb news confirms LFC admit racist comment issue at tonights game

Also in beeb match report

So wrong BP. No player should ever have to be withdrawn as a result of racist abuse. There's no place for it anywhere or ever. It's probably the lads biggest night in his career, soured at Klu Klux Klanfield. Hang your heads in shame LFC.

No smoke without fire Rummy, and the 4th official - would the beeb report that quite so quickly from a tweet?

Radio 5 now reporting Adeyemi was subject of racist abuse and 4th official has reported fans to the police.

Not interested whatsoever. I will go back to BP one day I'm sure, once the ground wreckers have :censored:ed off. Until then, give me cricket any day of the week. It does help i work down the road from OT.

Bit drunk, but it has never stopped me before. My reasons? Some of them have been stated on other threads, crap ground, crap team etc. The thing that'll get me back? New owners and dissolving the current board of directors completely. Hardy I can take, the rest of them, no thanks. Two of them bring nothing to the party so far as I can see, the other two are egotistical idiots. Latics won't see a shiny brass farthing from me until changes have happened. Do I miss it? Yes, I bloody well do. I know that I will go back one day, and I will love them again. I can't stomach this incarnation though, so I watch from a distance.

Chasetown away and his treatment of Pogs need adding to his list. Awful. Throwing the towel in at Brentford, unforgivable. I didn't have any agenda other than he wasn't the right man and it turned out he was a right royal prick to boot. I have never, and still don't get this kept us up stuff. We stayed up on the last day of the season by a point. It was hardly a fabulous turn around was it? I thought Talbot could have kept us up the same way, but hypothesis and opinion and all that. Our worst manager? Probably not, but in my humble he did have the best squad in donkeys; excuse the pun. Personally, such is my dislike I would open a :censored: sanctuary for him; though in these times of austerity he will have to make do with the donkey sanctuary. I'm hoping he gets mucking out. Derek.

I still read, but choose not to go. Nothing to do with not being allowed out either, the good lady is always nagging me to go to the match. I think she would like a break from me and my little black cloud once in a while.

Just that one, all the others, despite many fantastic away days, pale into insignificance. Would you like the match ball? Yes please! It's now safely tucked away at home.

Maybe they forgot to pay the bill?

Spot on Rummy and Prozac.

Spot on Shiny. Derek.

I am not really sure that I know how to put into words my feelings about events of the last week or so, but to hell with it, I am going to have a go. There will be people on here that will say I have no right to an opinion as over the last few years my support, in any real sense, has dwindled to the point of no existence; but tomorrow I am going to go to the Galpharm (or whatever it is called nowadays) and show my support for one final time to a transient collective that has only ever had two constants. The name Oldham Athletic and the fans, some of whom I am lucky enough to have known for the majority of my life and am able to call them my friends. I am truly saddened by the news that has come out this week, and like many of you who are looking on the gloomier side of things, believe that moving the club out of the borough without any steadfast plan in place for a future development will only be the death of the club. So, as I am sat here, on the eve of what I now believe will be my final ever game watching a football club that I have, until the last few years, adored all of my life I am wondering where it all went wrong. Not only for the club, but also from a more personal perspective, what went wrong with me and the club? Firstly, I am going to say that football itself in England should have an awful burden to bear should this once proud club die; there has been an influx of monied people treating clubs as a hobby toy to do with as they, and they alone, see fit. Some I believe have come with good intentions, others with bad; but all with one goal in mind. How much can I/ we get out of this? From the Glazers, the Hicks & Gillette fiasco at Anfield and right onto our own doorstep with Messers Corney, Blitz and Gazal on gods own little acre the only reason that people with sufficient funds would invest in a football club without having an inbuilt affinity for that club, would be to see what they can financially gain out of the venture. No one cares enough about the game anymore to put aside their own little get rich quick plan, no one has enough respect for the history or the emotional attachment that the man on the street can feel towards his or her club; and even worse, football doesn't care. It won't matter one jot to football if in May the grim reaper swipes his scythe over the heavens above Boundary Park and brings to a saddening end this fiasco that we have been involved in since the summer of 2003. In ten years time, we will be a pub quiz question. That sickens me, it sickens me right to my core. I suppose at this point, many of you are asking yourselves why won't I come and help out, why do I choose to no longer support Oldham Athletic financially, why do I refuse to attend games at Boundary Park? I am going to cast my mind back to early summer 2003, a supposed Norwegian fishing conglomerate were interested and it was also the day that I was giving a speech at the wedding of a very good friend. The groom, the best man and myself went out in the city centre of Edinburgh for breakfast and a few nerve steadying beers. I had to nip off for half an hour for a reason that they couldn't understand. I needed to know what had happened with the takeover and phoned Alex Metcalfe up, who along with a friend had set up Trust Oldham in the wake of the departure of Chris Moore. I couldn't believe that it hadn't worked out and that the club were really in dire straits, so quickly went to work and I spent every available hour trying and trying to raise funds and ended up becoming involved with the trust. I don't think that it took long from that point for me to start thinking about the what ifs about the newly appointed owners, it is far more complicated an affair than many of you think. Whilst I don't agree with the direction that the trust has taken, and have long believed it is too closely entwined with the club, I will applaud it on the fact that it does have the best intentions for the club at heart. I will also say, that as much as Barry and myself have argued on both this board and JKL, it's got to be a tough job pleasing both camps. But, and it is a big but, what is the use of having a pair of eyes and ears in the boardroom when the Cavalry is going to charge over the hill only to find that the Indians have already gone? The trust are nothing other than a donation to a black hole, a donation may I add of £250,000 plus of fans money that has a tractor and some ball boys bibs to show or its efforts (I know there has been much more, Beckett for example though is the only footballing positive directly from trust funds, not playershare). Why was this not kept as a rainy day fund? Why, why, why????? At least there would then be some hope of a phoenix rising. There was a post last week from HDGS, it was a bit of a call to arms and I was mentioned in passing as one of the people that should put aside their grudges with the club and other interested parties to return and help. I'm really sorry, but I can't. I can't support the direction that we have been taking in the last few years to make sure that some random businessmen that once saw a money making opportunity are now having to take us to break even or cut their losses. I can't support a plan of action that will prolong the painful death of my dear friend. Personally, I have no fight left in me and I refuse to watch the club die an even slower and more painful death than it has been doing in the past 4 years under the stewardship of our supposed saviours. Under TTA we have been like a gang-greenous amputee awaiting the bad news that the infection has spread further. In 2006 my Dad died nine weeks after being diagnosed with a particularly vicious form of leukemia. It was the day that we played Chesterfield in the JPT. None of us managed to get to the hospital in time to share his final moments with him. There was nowhere in the world that I wanted to be more on that day than at BP with what I have long considered to be my extended family. I'll admit that I sat in the main stand and didn't really watch the game, I just kept gazing over to all the parts of the ground where Wilson Snr. had taken me in 1974. Other than the Wallis family, I don't even think that anyone even knew who my Dad was at BP. Just some bloke who took his boy that happened to fall in love with a team that played in blue. I'm not missing another opportunity to say goodbye. I feel I have done my bit now and fought for OAFC as best I could. I can't bear to see my club suffering, but also I can't bear to watch it die slowly. I can't contribute to any longer to prolong the inevitable. Thank you for all the great times, and despite the fact I moan constantly, there have been so many more than you could ever imagine. Derek.

Not looking to rant at all Mads, just saying I won't be going back to BP.

I can do that at away games.

Fell out with it for a number of reasons. Should the bug bite again, I still won't be rushing back to BP. Derek.

I'm considering coming out of retirement for this. Only considering mind. Derek.

Pity the same can't be said for you eh Barry?

OK, more fool me for being taken for a ride in the Paddy-mobile, he got me good and proper. I took the bait, hook, line, sinker, rod the whole lot. As for Gods cop right hand man, did you really expect anything less from him? He can never wait to jump in both feet first.

have forwarded to you Paul.

Not interested enough to be mischievous anymore Slurms

Text Not sure if it will work, but photo of the text. edit: No it doesn't it shows my dog! Anyone have a photo hosting site that they can put it on?

Nope, received 12.28. Can't find anything about Fergie Jnr. being sacked yet though. Wouldn't surprise me if they have though.