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Well said, couldn't have put it better myself. You forgot to mention the bit about "stop pissing about with a hair brained fan ownership scheme" though.

It's not enough for them to be backing it. They should be going down there and taking part in it.

Wrong. That was Tyne Tees. It was not on the ITV national news.

Mary Glindon is my local MP. I will tweet and email her this weekend. I tweeted Starmer the other day with zero response. Dowden next. Shame the London protest is not on the 23rd as I am in London that weekend.

The trust need to get this story on the BBC & ITV national news. Are the trust going to do anything to try to make this happen?

The trust need to be pulling out all of the stops to get this story on the BBC and ITV national news. If they can have one target then that should be it.

I actually think it will come from nowhere, on the club website, if it is passed. If it fails then the PL will be straight on the phone to their insiders like Jacobs and it will come from there.

100% Staveley specifically said so in her two interviews this week.

He's done his bit with the CAT case so fair do's for that but he just needs to vanish off social media now as he simply isn't suited for it. And backing a flyover over Wembley for the biggest England match for over half a century just confirms that his judgement and opinions are highly questionable. Imagine if there had been an accident or security incident. It would undo every good takeover-related thing that has happened over the previous 18 months and probably have Staveley considering walking away herself.

Patterson has quickly realised the error of his ways and deleted his tweet.

Again, very true.

He's correct on that one though. Right now they should be all over this like a rash. Imagine if this was LFC and what the likes of the Spirit of Shankly group would be doing.

Well I guess the beginning of September could be considered weeks and weeks away at this moment in time. Really, the key date in all of this is that on which the arbitration verdict is delivered, and that surely has to be no more than 4 weeks away. After that, things could happen very quickly...for good or bad.

True. But the very fact that he is endorsing it tell it's it's own story. The bloke is long past his sell by date now and just needs to fuck off for good. The supreme irony is that the Premier League would be whooping with delight if this happened as the repercussions from it from the general public and national media would be dire. And you could forget about getting any help from the government after that point.

This bloke can just fuck off now.

WIth Rafa gone there is no obvious candidate now though. If we got Willock back on loan, have Jones there to keep Doubtfire in check and make a few extra signings, even loanees, then we can consolidate for another few months at the very least.

Yeah I think it's highly likely that Bruce starts the season. If we get taken over in September then the whole feel good factor will probably be enough to carry us to at least Xmas. They could then consider whether to peddle him at Xmas or next summer.

They would surely apply the old test rules and resume from where they got bogged down.

I can't see why not.

Arbitration will likely be concluded by the end of the month. But even if we win it, then the Saudis have to come back to the table and complete the ODT. Which means late August/early September is likely to be the earliest that change of ownership is complete.

That is a truly dreadful idea, and a great way to get pretty much everyone in the country against it. Trying to put a downer on the country's most important game for 55 years. Fucking idiots.

It's mad that the very first thread took a little more than 3 months to get to 1000 pages.

Yeah, this issue will be handled by CAT then. Stalling tactics and allegedly collaborating with other parties to block the takeover from ever happening. The PL surely haven't got a leg to stand on in trying to stop the CAT from happening.

Also, surely this extra evidence would be presented at arbitration?

That is surely another issue that would be handled by the CAT then?