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… if this is Butlers way of saying he doesn’t want Butterfield in his team then I hope he learns to be more honest in the future.
More likely that Butterfield had been on utterly ridiculous ‘Disney money’ for this league last season and was then offered a wage commensurate with Division 6 football, and reasonable on the club’s part.
Perhaps Butler and the Club believed Butterfield would ‘see sense’ and accept, realising that the previous high wage was an unrealistic ‘one off’.
My guess (based on the ‘fraction more than minimum wage’ comment from his wife on social media) is he has been offered about 30k and had previously been on about 75.
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If, as Mrs Butterfield suggests, Jacob wasn’t in the manager’s plans then why offer him a contract at all?
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Here’s what Butterfield’s wife had to say, at the cult page, about the contract situation.
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… it’s a business like 64 once said, so within that in mind I won’t contribute to anything else other than match tickets just the same as with previous incumbents.
That is quite the ridiculous thing to say and a terrible attitude to have. Surely you have learned, in the time since Michelle and co took over (and most have realised what is at stake, and started putting proper love and care into the club) that United is much more than just a business?
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Still do not understand how someone spends £11m can then ask for the £11M back when he it was he who loaned the club the money that he then spent having loaned HIMSELF the money and did so with seeking advice as to how risky the whole thing was !!
You just said it yourself. He loaned the club the money.
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A man who put a lot of time, thought and effort into the club, and therefore a loss.
I seem to think it was for the whole season, but do others remember him being on the front of the programme in the mid-80s?
A busy weekend meant that I was unable to listen to the documentary when it aired, but I was able to hear it on catch-up when driving to work this morning.
A very good piece which told the story in broad brush-strokes. It was still interesting and at times emotional and would have given the casual listener a decent idea of how troubled and triumphant things have been on the Iron rollercoaster. The half-hour run time of this programme didn’t really do the twisting nature of the story much justice – but we should be grateful that our club was given any national air time at all.
I do think the last few years is a compelling story and I’m sure there’s a more in-depth version of it waiting to be told. A multi-part radio series, a Netflix-type documentary or even a feel-good film in the Brassed Off, Calendar Girls or Full Monty ‘plucky community’ vein. If Ian Sharp is worth his salt he’s all over this already.
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I agree the club should recognize them I suggested one route that cost nothing you objected, how should the club recognize them Apollo11.
Should Michelle not have been recognized by the north lincs business awards? which without Cass couldn’t have started this thread.
Recognition from ones peers is the greatest recognition of all imo.The route you suggested was a route that the Club could otherwise earn money from, so it would not have made sense in the current climate.
I have no objection whatsoever to the fundraisers receiving, say, a public note of thanks from the Club on the website or over the loudspeaker prior to a match or something along those lines.
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