Didsbury Dave
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hgblue said:I get ITKers. I understand that they are either genuine, well meaning people with insider knowledge who like to pass on any snippets they receive to their fellow blues, or, they are rather sad individuals who have got nothing better to do than to 'guess' who we are going to sign, and then attempt to big themselves up by passing this off as genuine insider knowledge. Probably in the hope that they guess right and become a minor internet celebrity.
There is another, probably bigger, category of "ITK".
People who just occasionally, through contacts, direct or indirect( not always people in the club -accounts, solicitors, whatever), get wind of something which may or may not happen - often just the faintest whiff of a wind.
And they pronounce it as a "given", or more likely drop broad hints about it, because they enjoy the attention on forums and might just get right.
Zin is in this category for me. I don't think he's an out and out WUM, but he's certainly not closely connected to the club. Someone who's mate's best mate is at the club's marketing agency or something maybe drops the odd snippet at the bar, and that's it.
He certainly loves the attention (hence this post) and he's become a bit obsessed with Billy Shears, too.