Ten Bobsworth wrote:[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Sluffy
I’m sure Ken was no saint but he certainly had Vince’s measure.
How could you not though? I put a lot of it down to a kind of mass hysteria that seemed to emanate from the Allardyce era in Bolton.
Unfortunately, it is how people are so easily manipulated by influencers via social media - which has been the norm for the last decade or so.
In this case we had the likes of Iles being used as the mouthpiece for his mates in the ST as well as his 'buddy' Wheater to push the anti-Anderson message - which people believed to be gospel - I'm sure many still do even now!
Lone voices like yours and mine, who attempted to explain what actually was the truth as to what was actually going on based on Company Law, the accounts, EFL regulations, etc - were shouted down, ridiculed and attacked - look at the abuse I received after a certain someone on here claimed Anderson had raped and pillaged the club to pocket £168m for himself - when I pointed out the club hadn't got that sort of money as we were currently £200m in debt at that time!!!
People are easily led, that's the truth of it.
People believed the likes of Iles, the ST (and even Wanderlust!) rather than you or I - because they wanted it to be true!
Just like they want to believe the awarding of PPE at the start of Covid was all corruptly given to cronies of the Tory party - due to Maugham being the chief influencer on social media leading his campaign against the government.
I posted at the time that wasn't the case - civil servants award contracts NOT politicians.
Look at the shit I've had to put up with since then - but two and a half years later no 'smoking gun' of such 'corruption' has ever been found and EVERY inquiry into the awards have found that the civil servants awarding those contracts had done so honestly and NO cronyism had ever been found!
I don't know if people are collectively naive, or duped, or whatever it is but the bottom line is they
want to believe what they are being 'fed' by the influencers, without checking for themselves what they are being told is actually the truth.
That is how it is these days.