The press has the Methven meeting minutes


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Absolutely hilarious that the back page of the f***ing Times has carried this as its main story.

The main story in all of Sport?!

Looks like Chaz has pissed a few off down in London too. This will hurt his business - if you were thinking about hiring his firm to do PR consultancy, and did your due diligence, this will now come up quite easily.

Complete arsehole, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.


It's the backpage splash! I have my copy right here, can't believe it.

Someone in Times HQ must have an axe to grind with old Charlie boy.
Any other "revelations" on page 69?
 
A statement from the club ( :lol: :lol: :lol:) read: 'It goes without saying that any such views are not representative of our chairman and Sunderland AFC as a whole.

'It is clear from comments the chairman has made publicly that he is hugely appreciative of and truly grateful for the tremendous support given to the club by the Sunderland fans, especially in recent challenging times.'
 
There was also worse things said than that. I agree that the meeting wasnt that bad from what I've seen posted, but that isnt one of the worst things he said.

What was the worst stuff? Got any quotes or proof to show us?

All I've saw is second hand rumours, so taking with a punch of salt..
 
What was the worst stuff? Got any quotes or proof to show us?

All I've saw is second hand rumours, so taking with a punch of salt..

I’ve got a photo from one of the meetings with Methven saying Sunderland fans are known in the game to be an issue. He also mentions the ‘Sunderland disease’

Fuck knows how to post a pic of here, if you pm me your email address I’ll send you it.
 
Some people on here were laughing at Donald for not having a backbone with regards to a few comments some fans have made against him, now the same people are up in arms about a few quips an old Etonian has made who has now left the club.

Rise above it man! Let it go!
 
Biggest shock for me is his reason for getting so pissed off (sorry exasperated). He didn't like being questioned about the £10 million investment/loan that they did/didn't need that has/hasn't been spent.

Don't care where in the country you go a supporters group that cares about their club is going to question that! Oh and you don't need to be entrepreneur to see that you can't give a straight answer.
 
I'm not defending it but its hardly a huge fuss is it? People are offending by f***ing anything these days man.


Agreed, I just dont think, if this is the big drama surrounding the delay and weeks of talking about how something big happened in the meeting... people need to stop being offended by everything

I dont think people are particularly offended but once again he's slating the fans.
 
Anyone got links to what was posted on here previously for more of the context of what he said? I have searched but can't find it and missed it at the time.

There was an audio at the time. Written down it doesn’t look too bad, however hearing him say it with the way he emphasised the “unbelievably”...

It’s not for dispute whether or not he’s an absolute cock. He is. It also wasn’t bad enough to have him lynched either. He just seems to have a lot of disdain for the wider supporting base. He’s been terrible as our “PR”
 
Biggest shock for me is his reason for getting so pissed off (sorry exasperated). He didn't like being questioned about the £10 million investment/loan that they did/didn't need that has/hasn't been spent.

Don't care where in the country you go a supporters group that cares about their club is going to question that! Oh and you don't need to be entrepreneur to see that you can't give a straight answer.
He never did like being questioned. Any time he was asked a question he didn't like on the podcasts he'd get shirty about it.
 
There was an audio at the time. Written down it doesn’t look too bad, however hearing him say it with the way he emphasised the “unbelievably”...

It’s not for dispute whether or not he’s an absolute cock. He is. It also wasn’t bad enough to have him lynched either. He just seems to have a lot of disdain for the wider supporting base. He’s been terrible as our “PR”
And the audio wasn't from the fans meeting. So he said the thing he didn't mean in at least 2 different forums. Which is unlucky really, considering that's definitely not how he feels.
 
Biggest shock for me is his reason for getting so pissed off (sorry exasperated). He didn't like being questioned about the £10 million investment/loan that they did/didn't need that has/hasn't been spent.

Don't care where in the country you go a supporters group that cares about their club is going to question that! Oh and you don't need to be entrepreneur to see that you can't give a straight answer.

He didn’t like it when he was interviewed on one of the podcasts and very curtly answered the questioner that it was a ‘private matter’.

It is certainly a matter that he is not comfortable with.
 
Any other "revelations" on page 69?

Nah.

I mean, there they go into quite some detail about how Donald/Methnven took over, how they were popular but now are not, why that has happened, bit on takeover, club up for sale, how parachute money funded the deal, and official statements. Nothing we don't know, more bringing attention to anyone interested in national audience.
Possibly, can’t remember if it was the times or the telegraph he wrote for

He seems more of a Telegraph person to me, can't imagine he has the journalistic pedigree to land a proper Times gig.
 
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