"ENIC" bashing is probably a more accurate reflection tbf, mate. There's a big difference.
Relentlessly supporting owners who use our football club for their own long term financial gain and who don't have a sporting bone in their body is what I'd call "bashing the club"
It's Gooners and Chavs who sing "Daniel Levy, We want you to stay", remember, and whenever takeover talk flares up, they're literally shitting themselves.
Go figure, Spurs basher.
How have your previous predictions panned out there?
Feel free to bash ENIC and Joe Lewis - they basically invested in an island with no resources and dumped Levy on it.
But to suggest a man has built up the club from an absolute laughing stock to one that is self-sufficient, with the best facilities and stadium in the league, whilst being the most financially stable is not something that deserves the sneering and derision you so wholeheartedly have invested.
He's gone to pretty much all the games, whether it has been non-league teams in the freezing cold, or travelling to the far side of europe. He was a young guy when this whole thing started and is now well into the retirement phases of life, so the best years of his life have gone into giving us back a club that has the same level as it had in the 80s, without the bizarre and unstable ownership, after Sugar pulled our pants down in front of the entire league for the best part of a decade.
So, again, feel free to criticise Joe Lewis and his billions, or the greater model that is ENIC for their lack of interest and capital investment - but the idea that theres some kind of "long term financial gain" and suggesting there's been no "sporting bone" in the body of a bloke who is no less perfect than anyone on this forum, and certainly among the absolute oxygen thieves of the internet in general, is the epitome of disingenuous.
You've been banging the drum of "financial gain" since you first signed up on this forum. 12 years later, you ever considered you might have got it a little wrong? Ever walked past the stadium or gone in and thought "You know what, I was wrong".
It is fine to think "you know what, we could be better under a wealthy new investor" is neither wrong nor right - the clubs around us have seen their fortunes waver each way. Newcastle are 4 years into the PIF project and are nowhere near winning the league. So whilst it is fine to have the more optimistic opinion of how that may go, it doesn't justify or validate the idea that the progress of the last 24 years deserves no respect towards the skill and effort that has gone into getting the club to where it is now (current league finish aside). There's also no validation for any fans to be handing out insults and casting a negative character on a person just because they've not managed to pull of a miracle.
You'd think by some of the opinions in here that we started off this century like Man United and have seen the ownership cause a demise similar to that which the Glazers and INEOS have. The mind boggles.
