For want of another thread in a better location....
Paul Taylor reports in the Athletic that Arsher Ali has created a sitcom series called ‘Fit & Proper Persons’ based loosely on the Al Hasawi era at Forest, which he’s pitching to major networks.
Not sure if that makes me laugh or feel incredible sadness.
Thing is, I don't think his intentions were bad, nor his passion for the club. He just wasn't very good at his job.
It's a good article, I don't think I'll ever get over how poisonous and damaging that year with BD was. A dingbat with a blank cheque book and a couple of blokes who'd rather spit venom than drink milk.
The man had absolutely no passion for Forest, only for himself.
His intentions weren't bad in so far as they were only ever to boost his own ego, and at that time Forest were the way to do it.
The man's an utter charlatan and was a completely inept owner of this football club and thank fuck he's not here any more.
A dickhead who didn't hear the word "No" enough during his formative years.
That fucking prick Emad though........
Hope it doesn’t get picked up. I’d rather it stayed where it was as a footnote than got the attention
Oh FFS.
Get it out there.
Anything that shows up the way rich childlike idiotic owners are allowed to help ruin a working class game and manipulate thousands of genuine supporters' dreams gets my vote.
All the farcical nonsense, stupid decisions, unprofessionalism & everything else........
All worth it for "OK Spiderman"
But seriously, fuck him now, he's gone. EM's got his flaws, but at least we're headed in a better direction.
The piece on that website is brilliant and well worth a read if you’ve access.
It does set out how gullible Fawaz was, and the destructive influence of people like Jim Price.
„I believe in socialism because it seems more humanitarian, rather than every man for himself and 'I'm alright jack' and all those arsehole businessmen with all the loot. I made up my mind from viewing society from that angle. That's where I'm from and there's where I've made my decisions from. That's why I believe in socialism“
„Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.”
— Joe Strummer
I thought his reaction to the Osborn goal in the Derby directors box spoke volumes, I think his passion for the club was palpable if a "little" misguided.
Box office & inept don't really go hand in hand if you want your club run properly though. I remember tapping in on a conversation Gary Brazil had on the way to the Trent end along the lines of Fawaz believing money & big names was all it needed to get to the big league at the first attempt.
Naivety personified, badly advised, but with his heart in the right place, its tough to dig him out to the point some have.
When we viewed the gold taps and Natalie cooing over his supposed wealth, it all seemed fine and dandy and a rosy future beckoned.
Didn't take long for the façade to slip and the whole house to come tumbling down, though.
I'd almost forgotten him, leave him as a footnote to history and let's move on.
Read it now, not too worried about the sitcom being picked up as I think it would be shit.
Ok Spiderman
If anyone wants to read the article you can find it here (Warning! it means visiting Vital):
https://forums.vitalfootball.co.uk/t...person.105213/
Anything decent in the media these days needs a subscription and by the time you've laid out for the TV licence, all the subscription channels, several newspapers and websites and numerous other expenses (such as Spotify), that's more than my pension can stand.
Life was so much simpler when we didn't have a car, a TV, a phone or an inside toilet. And a run on toilet paper meant that someone had mislaid the Radio Times.
He was tweeting about ongoing talks with Dan Petrescu while Pearce was in the job, still sometime before Pearce was sacked I think, and seemed to think this would generate excitement.
So the 'iconic' manager they wanted turned out to be Steve Coppell?
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