“City Matters” fan committee

[Dirty Harry]

Oh I don't know. Chairperson sounds quite important.

‘Chair’ sounds even shitter to me, sounds pretentious as fuck, “Hi, I’m the chair”, fuck off lol !

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

‘Chair’ sounds even shitter to me, sounds pretentious as fuck, “Hi, I’m the chair”, fuck off lol !

How do you address them? ‘Chair’ sounds so much better than ‘Chairperson’. Believe me, I speak from some experience!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

BBC news at 6.00 pm had our old mate Roan doing a report from Quatar. In the report he gushes over 2 players who played in the final and named the club's that they play for in the premiership.Guess Julian didn't play then dan you fuckwit

When they do things like this, it immediately devalues their standing on the grounds of integrity or impartiality.

Why would anybody other than a pathetic, spiteful and biased organisation adopt such a petty attitude and approach.

We already know that Roan is bitter, and a mere lackey, having been denied access to the ground for his unprofessional actions and statements against the club, therby having zero credibility as the Senior Sports Reporter to the national broadcasting corporation.

Pitiful behaviour really.

 

[Dirty Harry]

How do you address them? ‘Chair’ sounds so much better than ‘Chairperson’. Believe me, I speak from some experience!

We move in different circles these days mate, the only ‘chair ‘ I know is the one you sit on :-).

 

[Eccles Blue]

We move in different circles these days mate, the only ‘chair ‘ I know is the one you sit on :-).

I’ve been Chairperson of quite a few committees and insisted that they called by my given name Eccles Blue ;-) rather than as Chair!!

 

[Blue Mist]

Really don’t understand why people deploy the term ‘chairperson’, when ‘chair’ will absolutely do the job and sounds a lot less wank.

Or Chairman. What's wrong with that phrase when talking about a man who is ergh chairing the group.
If it was our Lorraine chairing the ticket office group she would be a Chairwoman.



Just ergh sayin'

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Obviously I know the CM reps quite well. Simon Walker is a fantastic person to have as chair/chairman/chairperson* (delete according to pedantry). He has great integrity, is calm, thoughtful and reasonable, plus has tremendous gravitas. Mark Todd is also a brilliant rep, who takes no shit and is quite vocal usually in meetings, calling out things he thinks are wrong. Both are people you'd want in your corner.

Simon was asked to attend a meeting but not to tell the rest of the CM group. I think he realises that not telling the committee, and getting their input first, was a mistake. When Sam Lee suggested this meeting initially, we decided as a group that we wouldn't get involved as the risk was it would just turn into a circus.

I don't know for sure but I'm guessing the Liverpool fan representative was Joe Blott, Spirit of Shankly chair. I've met Joe and a nicer guy you couldn't hope to meet. I could talk football and fan-related stuff with him all day. But genuine and fantastic people like Simon & Joe aren't the problem.

I've made my thoughts clear on Liverpool's ownership and their deliberate actions in stirring the pot relentlessly, directly and via the media. I also agree with my learned friend Mr Moustache that City have been pusillanimous in dealing with this over what's now nearly 10 years, and certainly once the pattern and intent became quite clear to them.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

We move in different circles these days mate, the only ‘chair ‘ I know is the one you sit on :-).

For gdm, a chair can be many things, including a dance floor.

 

[WestGorton]

I went to one of these things back in the day, when GMP felt that tensions between City and United were in danger of boiling over. Can’t actually remember when it was, but think it may have been around the 2010/11 League Cup semi-finals. We’d had the Tevez billboard, Ferguson abusing Vicky Kloss in the tunnel etc and things were getting pretty heated between the clubs.

There were two of us from City (me and Alan Galley), and two United representatives who I can’t recall. Rather than having any meaningful discussion about how the clubs could tone things down, or how the police could manage things better, we were basically told what we couldn’t do, what GMP wouldn’t tolerate etc.

It was essentially a lecture, a box ticking exercise where they didn’t give a fuck what the fans actually thought. Sounds like this wasn’t entirely dissimilar.

Supporter engagement is worthless I believe. We have a choice to go or not. It's not the NHS or social care. The German model where fans have a voice ends up with line dancing in the stands with some bloke not watching the game with a loud hailer.

 

[mcfcantc]

Obviously I know the CM reps quite well. Simon Walker is a fantastic person to have as chair/chairman/chairperson* (delete according to pedantry). He has great integrity, is calm, thoughtful and reasonable, plus has tremendous gravitas. Mark Todd is also a brilliant rep, who takes no shit and is quite vocal usually in meetings, calling out things he thinks are wrong. Both are people you'd want in your corner.

Simon was asked to attend a meeting but not to tell the rest of the CM group. I think he realises that not telling the committee, and getting their input first, was a mistake. When Sam Lee suggested this meeting initially, we decided as a group that we wouldn't get involved as the risk was it would just turn into a circus.

I don't know for sure but I'm guessing the Liverpool fan representative was Joe Blott, Spirit of Shankly chair. I've met Joe and a nicer guy you couldn't hope to meet. I could talk football and fan-related stuff with him all day. But genuine and fantastic people like Simon & Joe aren't the problem.

I've made my thoughts clear on Liverpool's ownership and their deliberate actions in stirring the pot relentlessly, directly and via the media. I also agree with my learned friend Mr Moustache that City have been pusillanimous in dealing with this over what's now nearly 10 years, and certainly once the pattern and intent became quite clear to them.

To be asked to attend but keep it from the group??? Wtf. Who suggested he should do that.