Member

Particularly on the selling of players and the sacking of managers, we take the approach that we would never call for our owner to be replaced. Not all the owners that I have witnessed have been the best of choices over the years, but we never call for the manager to be sacked. Indeed, when the club is potentially about to sack the manager, we continue to support the manager until the manager is no longer our manager. Mr Bielsa once rang me, in rather a Spanish way, to thank the fans for continuing to support him when even the club owners had clearly lost some confidence in him. It is how we define supporting the club. We are not there to run the club but to support it. We are not there to try to own the club. As well as the trust organisations, which fulfil a different role and have a different perspective to be consulted, there are quite a number of these kinds of supporter groups across the country. We are members because we love supporting our club. Having the fan voice consulted by the regulator would help the regulator, particularly in some of the minutiae of getting it right.