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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Mrs Warbouys on January 15, 2019, 02:33:31 PM

Title: Football and politics
Post by: Mrs Warbouys on January 15, 2019, 02:33:31 PM: Is it just me that finds this a bit gauche? I’d be appalled if our official website offered up a statement like this, or any other social commentary on politics, Deary me

https://www.borehamwoodfootballclub.co.uk/uncategorized/mps-do-your-duty/
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: ManagementGuru on January 15, 2019, 04:01:39 PM: I believe Theresa May has sent a note to the Hertfordshire club questioning the formation that they deployed at Blyth on Saturday
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: JTH on January 15, 2019, 04:45:08 PM: It's filled with so much inaccurate, ill informed and incoherent babble it made me feel nostalgic for Northwich Guardian match reports.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: Hemel Alty on January 15, 2019, 05:00:26 PM: Its Borehamwood. I can't imagine anyone reads it anyway.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: Leon on January 15, 2019, 05:44:20 PM: Given it was Borehamwood who tried to charge RR a fee for broadcasting from their ground, we do know they’ve never been fans of tariff-free access.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: NauticaPete on January 15, 2019, 06:21:50 PM: A poorly written pile of absolute drivel. I just can‘t wait to enjoy all this freedom we‘re going to have whilst tucking into my chlorinated chicken vol-au-vents and blasting out land of hope and glory from my caravan in Skegness, enjoying my one week of statutory holiday in global Britain
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: Sale Holmfield on January 15, 2019, 07:16:09 PM: Boreham Wood are also the only football club I can think of who don't know how to spell the name of their town, and they won't like Mrs Warbouys using foreign words like gauche, I'm sure.

More seriously, I do think it's stupid for any sports club or retail business to take any political position. It alienates some of their own supporters or customers, and I doubt people who do agree with the politics will suddenly change their habits. I can't see Jacob Rees-Mogg filling the extensive gaps on the teraces at Meadow Park.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: cheshire cat on January 15, 2019, 07:25:13 PM: Quite. I've made a point of not visiting Wetherspoons in the current political climate. Fortunately the one in Altrincham hasn't got much to recommend it anyway.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: Hale Alty on January 15, 2019, 08:19:35 PM: Quote from: JTH on January 15, 2019, 04:45:08 PM
It's filled with so much inaccurate, ill informed and incoherent babble it made me feel nostalgic for Northwich Guardian match reports.

Ideally suited for a football message board I would have thought.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: brisbane_alty on January 18, 2019, 12:58:27 AM: Link has been taken offline, so I didn't get a chance to read it.
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: Mrs Warbouys on January 18, 2019, 02:16:39 PM: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/15/do-your-duty-boreham-wood-call-on-mps-to-sort-out-brexit-theresa-ma-eu
Title: Re: Football and politics
Post by: JD on January 18, 2019, 10:36:16 PM: Not sure that a football club website is the right place for such an article - probably someone wanting to have a rant, but they speak sense!