Originally Posted by
CharlesThompson
I was just watching a documentary on More 4 about the building up of and the subsequent demise of Enron and I couldn't help but correlate the story with a certain Irish football club.
Very basically - while Enron were busy building their share prices over the mid to late 90's they were doing so fraudulently by dodgy and illegal accounting practices and by holding competitors and even some States (California) of the U.S. to ransom.
While the line is somewhat blurred there are definately some associations to be made especially regarding the underhandedness of both situations it seems. Oily Byrne admitted on national radio tonight that Shelbourne (Shelnron) were in fact and have been in fact living beyond their means. By admitting to this, is he by extension admitting to increasing the ante on players wages so that he priced other clubs out of the market so that he could get his hands on players that other clubs coveted?
Somebody from somewhere in some authority of either the game of football in this country or sport in general should really take a closer look at this man and do something about it.
Many, many people have been vocal about the questionable goings on and forewarned the great deluded worshippers of the slobbering one for more years than I care to remember. In fact I wonder now will they still question the tag - Heads in the sand - as was so eloquently used many times when describing these poor fools over the years.
If any of you Shelnron supporters out there have any respect for your club, then you will be down there tomorrow demanding that Oily step down from his position. You will be speaking with the Rovers supporters and getting advise from them as to how they sorted out the mess that was there club and you will start again.
