I am still trying to get my head around the “Feck off you criminal but keep paying (at least some) of the bills until you find a nice new owner for us that will pay Swann twice the value for his land” message.
I understand that some people find the deception unforgivable – not happy about it myself but my default is to give people a chance when they have made a mistake. I struggle personally with the low tolerance to someone making a mistake having made a few myself but fully respect that people have to be true to their own belief system and moral code.
But if you want him gone then surely you want him gone right now. Why on earth would he/should he keep paying the bills and take responsibility to find an “acceptable” new owner?
I think most people realise, even if they don’t like him, that if he was to cut and leave immediately, without a buyer, we’re in big trouble. If anyone was calling for him to go like that, we’d get accusations of wanting the club dead (as there are anyway).
As for mistakes, his mistake in the past was rather deliberate, not an accident. We should get second chances, but what has he done since coming here? Lie, accuse others of being trouble makers out to get him. I think those who were concerned are going to react angrily when it turns out their concerns had validity after being told how bad we are for having concerns or for raising them. He hasn’t apologised for this, nor for his indiscretions, which were coupled with self-sorrow. Even then, he couldn’t resist in blaming others for daring to bring it to light. Chances are that we’d never get this admission by Hilton, unless someone like The Athletic journalists brought it to the forefront. I’d be more accepting of mistakes if he had been honest, and far sooner, apologised for his actions (and not just the fraud) and we didn’t have concerns about CCJs, unpaid wages etc over our heads.
