Keep Your Eyes on the Ball not the Trouble in the Crowd

There is one issue preventing our club moving on from the current mess, Hicks won't sell. We need to focus on making it impossible for him to maintain that position. Recrimination about Parry, Moores and the rest of it are merely a sideshow. Gillett wants to sell but not to Hicks and by thwarting Hicks he is acting as an ally. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" never was more apt than in this situation.

I guess that the sustained enmity of the majority of fans against Hicks is a factor in his inability to convince anyone to help him raise funds to offer to buy out Gillett. Proof of that lies in the obvious attempts of his useless PR people in infiltrating the various websites with pro-Hicks posts. This has backfired spectacularly and there are signs of desperation, as the days count down, in Hicks lashing out at Parry. The counter-coup is gathering strength and Hicks knows he is losing his grip on our club.

Those fans tiring of the whole business and wishing it would settle down should recall what this week means to us. What more contempt could be shown for our club, our history and our fans than to plunge the club into more controversy at the very time we wanted emphasis to be on our fallen fellow fans and their grieving families.