Having just read the leaflet, I am even more convinced that fan ownership is not to be pursued.
Quite disturbing that some people think that is the way forward, frightening really.
I've been fairly vociferous in my objection to the whole fan ownership idea. In truth, I think it's good to have fan representation on the board, but that seat should be bought and paid for in the same way as any other investor's seat at the table, otherwise it's nothing more than a token gesture of appeasement from the majority shareholders that can be ignored at will.
If that was what was being proposed, I'd have a bit more time for it. I know the official line was "we don't know what this will look like, the meeting is to figure that out", but reading the rhetoric from certain individuals I think they knew
exactly what they thought it should/would look like and that seemed to be based on an almost child-like, simplistic view of how everything
ought to work, that neglects to take into account how things
do actually work (a bit like Corbyn's social policy
)
My hope for today was that the grand designs of a few hopeless romantics would be laid bare for all to see in an emperor's new clothes style and we can go back to having a more pragmatic take on fan involvement. I'll be genuinely interested to hear how the meeting panned out, but if that toe-curlingly embarrassing paperwork that was given out is anything to go by I think I can guess....
