But keep spending your dirty money David and taking the abuse until the White Knight arrives with some clean money and pays Mr Swann his £3m. Otherwise we really won’t like you.
Not much to ask is it.
My concerns around Hilton rest largely on the fact that we still don’t know if he was the money to support the club. He hasn’t yet bought the ground. He’s assembled a presumably very expensive squad for this level. Yes we’re getting good crowds but are we financially sound? These were exactly the questions I raised for years around Swann, even when the going was apparently good at the top end of League 1. None of us want to see a repeat of that cycle, so we need to know for sure that Hilton is putting the club on a sound footing.
So I’m curious, do you think fans’ feelings toward Hilton would shift, especially after the story today, if there were parties interested in purchasing the club from him? Is it the man himself or the idea that he is the one person who would keep the club afloat?
I don’t think it would make any difference – there is a section of the fanbase which has become so deeply aligned with Hilton that it’s akin to expecting Trump’s supporters to change their views on him based on each indictment – it simply won’t happen.
