Jim Tolmie's Underpants
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Sucked the club dry.
I remember a few years back and the City director Ian Niven (I think it was him) was flogging some City memorabilia (I think it was a club sign or something like that, that used to be over the entrance to the main stand) and I asked at a forum where did Niven (or whoever it was) get it from in order for him to be able to flog it - surely it belongs to the club. The answer was Swales hired a skip one day and was throwing everything out!
Niven simply ''dipped' in and took the item in question, as did a few others luckily enough to get to the skip on time!
That's something that always intrigues me. Is there any evidence of him really being a blue prior to getting involved? He probably worked most Saturdays but did he go to an midweek games?I never regarded him as a Blue. Self interest was his motivation. Unfortunately for us it was City that he got involved in. At the time of Franny's take over bid I can honestly say I despised Swales with a passion. He ruined City as a top club. I shudder when ever I see highlights of Coventry City because that's where we were heading.
Fair point, so did he look at it as an ego trip?That's something that always intrigues me. Is there any evidence of him really being a blue prior to getting involved? He probably worked most Saturdays but did he go to an midweek games?
For every Peter Swales story there's a couple of people to contradict him and say that it didn't happen as he said. The story about him approaching Sidney Rose & John Humphreys in a pub in Hale didn't happen, according to Sidney. So do we believe he was a lifelong blue? Even if he was, it was more about what it could do for him than what he could do for the club.
But he was probably worth a lot more after his time at CityI think his previous background was a a small electrical retailing firm, White and Swales, who had a few shops around the Altringham area, I knew one TV tech that worked there and he was a rag, didn't speak much just went to Openshaw tech with him.
How times have changed he was probably worth a lot less than 1mill.