Thank You Tim Symonds For This Petition
Sep 28th, 2007 by 'holic
For all sorts of reasons I am pleased to see this petition, and would urge all ‘holic regulars to sign it. All ‘holic regulars that is who are resident in the UK, or UK citizens.
If you are an expatriate, you’re in an overseas territory, a Crown dependency or in the Armed Forces without a postcode there is also a section for you when you click the link.
Sadly , if you are Johnny Foreigner, or of course an Arsenal player reluctant to give out your address because you do not want the immigration service to know how to contact you, then please ignore this post. Actually, you should be grateful. The obnoxious bastard we are petitioning against may set his first class corporate lawyers on you if you get involved in any way, even though we are perfectly entitled to object to his involvement in our club.
This is possibly our only chance to help influence a more rigorous ‘fit and proper person’ criteria for owners of football clubs. Petitioning our government may persuade them to put some pressure on these people.
There are wider issues involved than just whether or not Arsenal end up a laughing stock, like Chelsea. Do you want non-elected people from overseas, or their lawyers, to decide what you should or should not be allowed to read on the internet? Do you trust the courts to decide what is right or wrong?
If you are an Arsenal supporter sign the petition now. If you want to make your own mind up about the wider argument you could do a lot worse than to start here.
Up the Arse!
17 Responses to “Thank You Tim Symonds For This Petition”
Us arseholes must stand strong in the face of this shite.
Im from India, but probably as much as a gooner as you would find anywhere else in the world. A pity, we cant sign this petition.
We are strongly against Alisher and his murky intentions.
The site says it has sent an e mail but i am unable to receive it(therefore I cannot sign) any ideas! Lets not end up like Chelsea, it was always unfair but the best supported clubs deserve the most revenue from within the game , not a play thing for Russians whose country 7 years ago was worth less than Woolworths . Goonertriz
trizzo, if you are eligible to sign check your spam folder. Everybody I know who is eligible has had this mail …or something similar…
‘Please click on the link below to confirm your signature on the
petition at the bottom of this email.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Oligarchs/D8sHOMDFV18lCp3OjpABLBF
The petition was created by Tim Symonds and reads:
‘We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to meet with
the FA and Premier League to draw up a rigorous “fit and proper
person” test for football club ownership.’
[ Please do not reply to this email, it will not confirm your
signature. This email has been automatically sent by the Number
10 petitions system. ]
Yes sorted, keep up the excellent work. Thanks.
Sorry if i am trying to take over tonite but Mr Holic is there any way that the supporters can stick together and buy the shares in the club? I cannot afford loads nor can a lot of supporters. But with the support every home game plus the waiting list and the between 250,000 and 500,00 that parades when we do the double surley we can see off these Russian tossers!!
Not a problem trizzo. If you are worth a few bob you should look at http://www.arsenaltrust.org/
Problem is in a situation like this even if we were all worth a bob or two this man is offering the best price for shares, and has the best contacts.
The good thing is I am still assured that he cannot get over fifty percent, which means he has a decision to make soon.
Does he go for over thirty percent, and thus be forced to make a bid for ALL of the shares? We shall see! I was here before he even heard of Arsenal, and I’ll be here when he has fucked off….
Mr Holic what i am saying is if 250,00 turn up at the town hall with £20.00 in there pocket to put towards shares, that would be £50 million squid at least 15% of the clubs value if we all payed £200.00 thats £500 million we can buy afc so why can’t all the blogs, fan clubs, etc get together and make some sort of block shares Say goonerholic own 1% arseblog 1% etc. We with the board only need the deciding shares 6% so why not get together and find a way of buying them together set up say goonaholic ltd and we all buy shares into that, then purchace shares in afc together. Regards Trizzo
Great logic trizzo, I like your thinking, but in reality getting that number of people together won’t happen, yet. We are hoping that the board do have the small percentage of shareholders nailed on to ensure the status quo, at least. I’m not sure if you saw what I had to say the other day. Even if the worst comes to the worst we are supporters for life. The Russian can borrow the club, but we will be here when the fat fucker has gone.
Mr holic i cannot agree with you! To me it is like we are using the club as a prostitute and when everyone else has been through her we will have her back and say we love her!
Why can we pay so much for a hamburger or a lager at the Emerites and not put a little money, real money into buying the freehold of the club and not the lease, every game we pay £200,000 in programes, every year we could buy a 2% share in our club (put that with the board) We cannot get rid of these outsiders by insults such as fat fucker or orangeman we need the blogs to get together and set up something to keep the club for gooners forever. Don’t treat arsenal like a council house where we we will always rent by buying shirts, hot dogs, and where is the bloke(not you who sells the peanuts on the northbank, love the memories)
Set up a supporters fund you are in a great position save our FUTURE!!!!
Trizzo,
Not everyone has your passion. Shockingly, some Gooners actually want the club to be bought by a businessman!
I am on record on this blog with a £100 commitment to buy shares, but between the two of us, if you’re serious about that £20 note, then we’re still a ways off from the £10,000+ pounds Usamnov is paying for shares.
I think all the best efforts of the http://www.arsenaltrust.org/, Arseblogger, and the honorable Goonerholic himself, couldn’t mobilize enough people to buy more than a handful of shares if they spent their every waking hour trying to rally the troops.
My pipe dream is that the FA will declare Usmanov unfit to invest in the club, and that he’ll be forced to sell his shares at a loss. That would be the kind of event that could trigger the Million Gooner March ©.
433 I didn.t say i would put £20.00 I will go £10,000 for a share asap if needed I am saying why can’t we set up a smaller share fund for everyday supporters are you saying we cannot raise £50,000 between all the true arsenal supporters. To help set up something 433 Do you live in a council house? rent all your life!!!
433 I am serious about the £10,000 come on!
Not only Gooners need sign this petition, any true football fan who wants to see this country’s national game flourish and money being pumped back into our sport should considering signing it.
This is not only an offensive against Usmanov and the Arsenal takeove bid, it’s against all dodgy dealers trying to make money out of our passion.
So rise up fellow football fans….and lets reclaim our fucking game!!!!!!!!!!
paul if you lot could actually put out a team with cuople of british players in it I am sure you would get support from fans of other teams.. My interest is because the decline of spurs coincided with the eveil Scholar secretly buying up the debentures that was designed to keep spurs independent.. The he took us to the abyss. Its no fun trying to climb out!!.. Hill Wood is doing a sterling job .. But your in the hands of an American who could technically scuttle your board.. As for Shillings … They are tossers of the worst order the only way to win against these people is to stand up against them and be counted..
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Dave, money talks and that lot at the top of our country are members of the funny handshake brigade. I will sign the petition but I do believe its a waste of time.