Originally Posted by
JDerrida
We had FIVE winding up orders, were £66 million in debt, had sold some of our best players to prevent being wound up, sold off an advanced catering contract to the garbage that is Compass, sold the 'golden tickets' to season ticket holders if they paid for future seasons in advance.
If you call that 'pretty well', then with that level of either, bias or lacking basic understanding of our prior situation I'm concerned about any objective role you have within the Supporters Trust. Shocking really.
Ridsdale had history at Leeds and they were £103 million in debt and in freefall when he left.
After that he took over at Barnsley he nearly took them into liquidation before he left.
Hammam, whilst in charge at Wimbledon wanted to relocate them to Dublin and ended up selling the club to a group that took the club to Milton Keynes
Whilst Hammam was here he changed the badge, wanted to rename the club The Cardiff Celts and change club colours to green, red and white.
Because he did the Ayatollah and ingratiated himself with the fans 'inner circle' he became a cult hero, despite screwing the club (and as a consequence the fans) into the ground.
Why did he take on Ridsdale with his past history?
Because Ridsdale knew how to skin every last penny from the club before leaving it as a complete wreck and a question hung over the club's continued existence.
In walked Dato Tan Ghee, closely followed by Vincent Tan.