Once again Cardiff are making the news for all the wrong reasons with a financial, or even penalty points, fine possibly coming our way?
Even when Vincent Tan is trying to do right he’s doing wrong!
Ahead of the game with Tottenham on Sunday, which we of course lost to see us lose a seventh successive away game, Tan ‘addressed’ the squad to put across his views on what they should be doing in order to escape Premier League relegation trouble.
His main advice to the players, from what the Daily Mail has said, was that the players ‘need to shoot more’. Words of wisdom from the Malaysian Mad Man, but isn’t this the managers job?
In defence of Tan some ‘eyewitnesses’ and ‘insiders’ have said that this went down well, even if it didn’t inspire a win at White Hart Lane that leaves us looking down the barrel of an instant Championship return.
The more worrying thing is Tan’s offering of the illegal £3.7m bonus could cost us.
Premier League rules prevent such bonuses being offered with any bonuses put forward needing to be made clear to the Premier League before the season starts and this added incentive to the squad isn’t allowed and could result in us being fined, or even docked points.
A spokesman for Tan has spoken to the Daily Mail to explain he didn’t know this was wrong and that offer is no longer on the table.
‘We didn’t realise it was against regulations. Vincent Tan has now rescinded the offer.’
Perhaps I’m being naïve but I’m not sure why offering the players an added bonus to avoid relegation should be viewed as ‘illegal’ as it’s not as if he’s offering them money to make sure we go down.
The squad should be motivated to want to keep us in the Premier League anyway but why should the offering of an added bonus to do so at this stage be deemed wrong? Maybe I’m missing the point and rules are rules?
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Your name calling, viz: “Malaysian mad man”, in my view is inappropriate and only confirms Vincent Tan’s assertion that the British press IS RACIST!
As a United supporter, I thought the “green and gold” campaign was bad, but this latest diatribe by the British media against Vincent Tan violates every principle of fair play and is clearly a shiver looking for a spine to run up! For an owner on an obvious learning curve to receive this amount of flack smacks of an inquisition! Does it mean that he has to be up to speed instantly and be totally conversant with the rules of football plus all the obscure and archaic rules of the Premier League even when trying to motivate his players?
The British press reflects a reflexive hostility to the man when an innocent mistake made out of genuine ignorance results in him being pilloried on the stake of racial prejudice?
It was Duncan Spaeth who said:”I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire. God wouldn’t trust a Britisher in the dark!” Now how does that feel, you racists? What’s happened to Britain? You’ve prided yourself as a land where freedom reigns. Now it looks like prejudice and racial bias is the best that Britain can muster. It can be put down to “stuff happens” and people change. There’s a more scatological way to put it, but you get my drift?
Well that explains the Malky hate and the potential implications of your comments about him, however describing somebodies correct nationality along with a well known colloquial phrase for slightly bizarre behaviour is not racist I’m afraid to tell you, so it ‘tells nothing’ other than Tan can do no wrong in your eyes, and you’re entitled to that opinion.
With that said I’m sure Bluebird will take the compliment that you consider him ‘British press.’
And amazingly yes, especially with millions at stake it is Tan’s responsibility to know the rules and the regulations, and if not suitably minded or with the time to discover them himself, this is why club’s have legal and compliance departments so he should have sought advice from them. Nothing racist about that either, but ironically there is about most of the remainder of your post, but that makes me smile as opposed to getting offended on behalf of somebody else as faux indignation really isn’t my thing, although admittedly the use of language could’ve been improved ‘Britisher?’
I do however concur it was a mad honest mistake to have made, and the response that it’s been instantly withdrawn was right and proper and should be an end to the matter.
ps – I do have it on good authority that Bluebird is alleged to have hacked his own phone on more than one occasion.
You’ve been hacking my phone again Whitts to know I’ve been hacking my own…
Not sure how you come to the conclusion that I am a racist Frank Law, and can’t see how I’ve done anything to warrant such a view? I’m not a fan of Vincent Tan, but know plenty of Cardiff fans (and non Cardiff fans for that matter) aren’t either but I’d actually, I thought, if you read what I wrote actually took something of pitty on him and even some sympathy. Never been called a racist before, called lots of things but not that. Never been called a member of the British Press either mind!