Joga_Bonito
Full Member
Exactly. One of the best posts in this thread.
The problem is that there are a quite a number of people on here who couldn't careless about the real facts & figures or indeed about what would actually be the consequences of a boycott and so are quite willing to just spout utter nonsense and conspiracy theories presumably in the hope of persuading as many people as possible to boycott the club. They're desperate for the Glazers and the club to fail seemingly just so they can claim to be proven ''right'' about the Glazers. They are fantasists and idealists who, quite contrary to what they claim, do not have the best interests of the club at heart.
These people quite clearly aren't to be taken seriously by anyone considering whether or not to renew their season ticket based on the financial situation at the club.
While some of what you have said here is true, behaving in a condescending manner does not constitute an argument, either. I absolutely agree that some people have largely discredited themselves through their eagerness to find problems where there are none, and to, I would suggest, unintentionally, unless shown otherwise, misrepresent what are matters of fact. However, I can also understand the frustration with the continued insistence on sticking to matters of fact, when it's perfectly reasonable to evaluate facts for the purposes of inference, particularly when this is common practice in all areas of business and economics.
The irony in all of this is that there's actually no need to discover that the club is in financial trouble to justify considerable anger and opposition to the current owners. It's perfectly reasonable, for example, to not wish to pay off their debt for them, and there's absolutely nothing that you or anyone else could possibly say, unless of course it relates to that point, which would contradict that.
The saddest aspect of all of this is that we should all be on the same side, even if some people are happy with, or at the very least, ambivalent towards, the current ownership model. Nobody should be prepared to purposely misrepresent the known facts in order to make a point, and nobody should be prepared to accuse them of doing so, unless they can present considerable evidence which shows that it is the case.