Reply To: Dave Ja Vu

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Posted on another Forum. Again, this may or may not be all true.

Bury had already been expelled with huge, unpayable debts and had a functioning phoenix club trying to kick start itself during the covid season of 20/21, when DH came sniffing around.

From memory he made claims very vocally on social media that he had pretty much secured a deal to buy the club and that there was money in place to pay off debts, and that there was a place secured in the NLN. Even if the first part was true, the second part was dubious at best. He immediately started snapping and sneering at fans asking questions, calling one fan, a Bury based Blade who follows Bury as his second team, an elderly gentlemen who puts a lot of time into mental health charities amongst other things, an effin ‘prick.’ The question had been a simple one, ‘where is your money coming from.’

He immediately said there would be no fan involvement and made sneering comments about Bury AFC.

Despite adamant claims of his wealth and business success there was absolutely no evidence of any successful business ventures or multi millions in the bank, his companies house files threw up next to nothing aside from dormant companies, one of which being based at Ilkeston FC, a weird place to base your really successful property company. It was all very Stewart Day and Steve Dale esque.

One of his best tirades saw him call Bury fans cancers and saying it was not a surprise the club ended up where it did, and claiming it was little wonder that previous owners, (ie Day and Dale), had failed with the club with fans like ours. This was pretty standard during a two week period where he constantly came online barking out tripe like this, at the same time, cosying up to the anti Bury AFC faction of our fanbase. A couple of whom were known racist bigots and bullies who’d been stirring up crap for the previous 12 months or so.

There were stories of threats and abuse being handed out to the people who run our message board and members of the AFC setup. Unsurprisingly, the deal didn’t come off and Hilton ended his little crusade as he’d started, with accusations, lies and abuse. One such line was to oddly blame the man who runs our MB. Dean Hamer who does this voluntarily, and in his own time, and he was someone who had kept a very low profile throughout the entire farce. Dean responded on Twitter by telling Hilton to produce evidence to back up his claims as he (Dean) had consulted legal advice and told Hilton he was about to take legal action.

Low and behold, Hilton deleted the tweets and then his twitter page then vanished for a couple of years.

There were other ridiculous claims as well – I could fill this page with the amount of nonsense this creep spouted. I am just thankful he vanished without a trace only to emerge a couple of years later at Scunthorpe. I do not know the ins and outs of what has gone on at Ilkeston, but from the bits I have gathered it hardly seems like he’s created a genuinely, prosperous empire. There seems to be a number of unanswered questions there as well – but with a small fanbase and a club with, (all due respect), limited standing in the football pyramid, people won’t ask questions.

What baffles me more is the FA or whoever runs the F&P tests at National League level allowed this bloke to takeover. His promises have already not been delivered on, and he spouts out decent sound bites to explain why things have or haven’t happened, then snaps and gets aggressive when pressed on the matter. It is all very Stewart Day/Steve Dale esque but, speaking from experience, I don’t blame Scunny fans for hanging on to his every word, that was Bury fans throughout the Day era (2013 until December 2018) and again when Dale turned up.

One of his best claims is that he bought Scunthorpe United to make his family proud of him, even though he’s already achieved a lot in the world of business.

I just hope Hilton is exposed and ousted and that Scunny fans can rescue their club before it is too late.