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Pay more attention to what you're being told by someone who knows. Take your egos and your personal misgivings about me out of it and ask yourselves:

Is Matt obviously very closely connected to the club?
Has he been suspiciously quiet of late?
Does this post not seem very oddly pessimistic for an ordinarily optimistic chap?

There is a user on here, on this very thread no less, who knows what I know and we had a laugh about this thread shortly before I posted it, saying how it would pan out and we were right.

I don't need the approval of an online community to validate my existence. Please don't take this the wrong way, but none of you means enough to me for that to be so much as a consideration.
I often know things in advance of their becoming public knowledge. I say nothing because a new player or a failed loan approach don't really matter. This, conversely, does matter. It matters a great deal. I gave very serious thought to the question of posting this thread because it gives out information which, barely 6 weeks ago, I argued vehemently that none of us has a right to know. I still believe in that principle. However, I believe that in these gravely exceptional circumstances, the information I have offered is appropriate. This is an issue between me, my God and my moral compass.

As aforementioned, I'm not here to earn the validation of some strangers on the Internet. The title of the thread was carefully chosen in order to set the tone. I've no interest in showing off what I know or the fact that I know it at all. There is nothing boastworthy about that. I made this thread and the opening post therein to offer fair warning to those of you not privy to the full picture.
As any Arsenal fan will tell you, it's the hope that kills you. Better you are prepared for what is to come.

For what it is worth, there are a small group of people for whom this will strike especially hard. My efforts are today and in the near future to be directed towards improving their lot. Interested parties know exactly how to reach me.

Matt.

Look, there's obviously only so much I can say, but the time has come for a pretty unpleasant truth to be brought as out into the open as can be (which, unfortunately, for the sake of lots of things, is not very).

Our choice is a stark one. The phrase, "between the Devil and the deep blue sea" is rarely as apt as it is about our club today.

As a fanbase, we should brace ourselves for the end of this week to bring one of two disappointing outcomes. Those of you holding out for a hero should know that the last of those ships sailed not less than 10 days ago. The remaining options are as unpleasant as they are inevitable. The lesser of two evils is ownership by a group with a dodgy reputation who have been widely discussed on this forum. The alternative is to do our best Plymouth Argyle impression. Yes, that means what you hope it doesn't. The white knights exited stage left, pursued by a bear. All that's left now is an early Blackadder piloting a lame nag to the glue factory.

In parting, a fitting epitaph:

"Do not stand by my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand by my grave and cry. I am not there, I did not die."

Good luck, everyone.

Matt.

Plainmoor78 wrote:Latest rumour on BTPIR is that the board is considering going into receivership. Perhaps Pete Masters is the grim reaper.

How does he manage to be so far behind?

Matt.

forevertufc wrote:Is the same European convention (ECHR) than prevented successive British governments from deporting Jordanian Abu Qatada and Egyptian Abu Hamza form the UK for a number of years costing the British tax payer how much ?

Was this a case of the ECHR performing an assault on the freedom of the British people ?

Yes, the very same. Guaranteed rights for all, not guaranteed rights for only those who are deemed worthy. Oddly, the latter option is the precise one advocated for by the very people who cause you such ire. The irony is always so clear, yet so lost on those blinded by indignant rage.
No, these people are not desirable, but seeing a handful of undesirables benefit is an infinitely preferable result than seeing the same injustices perpetrated against the majority.

As usual, the Daily Wail language is strong here. There was no assault on the freedom of the British people. British people were no less free than they otherwise might have been had those you mention been treated differently. This isn't zero sum. Their win isn't your loss. Indeed, to have treated these people outwith the provision of the law would have been to cost each of us a tiny little bit of our humanity and pushed us just a tiny little bit closer to the dystopian hell in which our enemies would have us find ourselves if they had their way.

Anyway, you want to talk about freedom of speech, I posted a thread on the Internet yesterday and it seems I have been censured. No explanation, no right of appeal, just toe the party line it be silenced. Let me tell you, I wish I had topcover from EU legislation.

Matt.

GI, Joe.

Matt.

Do you know what your friends earn? I don't. I do know what my employees earm though.

Gulf in budget between us and FGR is hilarious, genuinely laugh out loud funny.

Matt.

The signing of Moore showed how close we are to being a perfectly good side. Not stellar, but comfortably mid-table.
This is our lowest ebb, yet we are within £650/week for 18 months and a transfer fee (£10k?) of being just fine. Given what Nico is fighting against, that he has got us so close to that is utterly incredible.
With Moore in the side, we'd have been 5-0 up at half time yesterday. That's the difference that a single decent player would make to this side. Decent players cost money.

If anyone knows anyone with any going spare, I'm sure we could be the masters of our own destiny in the near future...

Matt.

He'll be free. Nothing to see here. Sorry.

Matt.

lucy6lucy wrote:The fact no one seems to know who is/could be taking the club/ or is sworn to secrecy for this take over is a credit to the board in keeping the potential take over secret. Even SG has all but admitted it's not GI or MR M. Some how I see the future to be good but what a week we have to wait

I wish I still had a week to wait.

Matt.

Tranmere were just like Gillingham of a few years ago under Martin Allen. Completed a huge percentage of their passes, always had a runner and demonstrated excellent touch. Technically very good. That they aren't higher up the division is a mystery.

On Racchi; he won't be coming,no matter how much he wants to, so put that out of your minds.

On Young; it's a scan on Monday. Early estimate of a month.

On everything else;

Matt.

As I say Dave, a broken watch is right twice a day.

Remember when the Internet identified the Boston bombers? I don't know why the FBI didn't simply visit Reddit instead of, you know, investigating.

There was a bloke on here not a week ago telling us that Kieffer Moore was shit. I'll bet you're glad Nico didn't act on that advice.

Imagine the scenario, for a sec. We're in a fans forum and the question comes from the floor, "Kev, tell us about your recruitment policy at the club" and Nico replies, "I spend 20 minutes in June looking on forums and Twitter and sign whoever Spazbot99 and ShotsFanInExile reckon is any good. I had an option on a bloke, but @Pieandchips said on Twitter that he was shit, so I binned him off."

Come on, really?

Matt.

A hat trick.

I've had a long day, so I'll save my own time.

The overwhelming majority of that last post is, with respect, complete bollocks. Written, so very obviously to me (and to me moreso than anyone else on here, I think [but can't prove]), from a position of no more knowledge or understanding than a poor interpretation of the often hilariously inaccurate musings posted online by various of our more hard of thinking brethren.

I can't even begin to imagine living in your head. The world must be a terrifying place.

Matt.

Sorry, only just read the rest of your post.

Do we or do we not have other income streams?
If 'we do', would that be a good thing or a bad thing?

I'll save you the time, yes we do and yes that's a good thing. Or, to put it another way, we have other income streams, so it's not all bad. Sounds oddly familiar, that.

Matt.

Sometimes we make £0.25, sometimes we lose £0.25. Either way I wouldn't let it consume you.

Matt.

Yeah, why did our professional manager and his medical team not listen to some chaps on the Internet?

A broken watch is right twice a day.

Matt.