If I remember correctly, the land on Glebe Rd never changed owners, so another fib from the poor, beleaguered owner who only left because he had hurt feelings from having to face criticism over being a spiv.
If you want to know what the ‘shite’ he had to deal with, it was because of the Company’s House record which shows a multitude of failed businesses, attacking fans who dare to question him, creating division in the fanbase by scapegoating to distract from himself, calling fans s******s, playing stupid games over ground ownership, making ridiculous excuses for why nothing succeeds (from the ransom strip at Glanford Park, which miraculously got sorted within a month by our new owners, to he doesn’t want to pay staff because he has hurt feelings), making statements and deleting them the next day, using a local coke head as an unofficial spokesman on Facebook, countless CCJs from his time as owner and not paying those before, threats of limits of ground capacity because he wasn’t paying the stewards, ponzi schemes that the club have had to accommodate since he left. There’s probably more, but there was so much idiocy. Including some stuff I am not going into on here.
The morale among club staff was terrible under him, and he was not well liked. As, except for the deluded, have said he is toxic and should be avoided. He may well be using Matlock as a reputation builder, but with his character it can only end in tears. Nothing is ever his fault, but that of everyone else, there’s always a scapegoat who he demonises and attacks. It was the same here and with Bury. When it came out that he was a crook he made every excuse and tried to wriggle out of it, placing blame at the journalists who dared to investigate him, while pouring a sob story. A man who takes no accountability, which is one to be avoided.
People have shared some excellent voices, like McGuire and Slater, but I would also add Jordan Zakarin and the person who is behind the Interested Bystander account on here. Though, the latter no longer posts and, while I have a strong suspicion as to who he is on twitter, I am not comfortable sharing without permission. Asking some on twitter would probably lead you to him, as he did a lot of work exposing the fraud.
A short summary from me is that he is the most toxic, disgusting man to ever associate himself with our club.
