I don't really care whether it is WUM or ITK - after all, it's all good fun and in the spirit of our belief in better days to come which underpins our wishful thinking.
Accepting, for a moment, that TFM might really know this groundbreaking information, how have the thousands who have read the thread managed to keep it a secret among themselves for so long? Given TFM's loose lips, how do the press not know?
Maintaining the assumption that TFM really is ITK, what on earth compels him to keep posting on the thread to tell a bunch of complete strangers (who don't even share a common team with him) some information that many of them disbelieve in any case. This really doesn't add up.
Assuming (as I do) that he is just a harmless WUM, why on earth is he bothering?
Trying to work the whole thing out is utterly futile. The Palacio rumour is unsubstantiated (and countered by marginally more widely rumours & reports of a Panathinaikos bid & Boca's response). The photographs prove nothing, and even if they do picture TFM they do not prove the nature of his relationship with Villa (remember the Times' regular feature of fans' pics with the stars?). If we assume that the photographs do show TFM, then they still only prove that TFM had his picture taken with Villa. They do not, and cannot, prove that what he claims about Villa moving to City is true.
It's all a laugh, but ultimately the Palacios rumour is a complete red herring, and the photograph is a complete red herring. It's all just like a card trick. That we have these to discuss gives us some supposed evidence to chew over and distract our attention away from the fact that he has presented us with no credible evidence and no credible sources whatsoever even hint at the tale he's telling. It's just Paul Daniels in an Everton shirt...
