PETITION - Help Force Karl Oyston's Resignation

I’m happy to forward this to you all – I believe fans should help each other for the benefit of all. I’m a Reading fan, as many of you know, but I write regularly on many different forums, and feel that I know the ins-and-outs of many. I also help to organize inter-forum games and competitions.

Right now the overwhelming majority of Blackpool fans need YOU to sign their big petition - please help! The following should help to explain everything. If you still feel you need more info as good as any: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Oyston



from Blackpool Supporters Trust


Hi All,

Any assistance that you can give in supporting our petition would be greatly appreciated. You may already have heard, but our club chairman Karl Oyston has been in the press this week for insulting a fan by text. The press has focused on the use of language which could be considered offensive including use of the term "******" and the comment "Enjoy your special needs day out", which have been widely condemned, due to the offence it may cause to the disabled, their families and indeed decent society. Football is supposed to be inclusive and clearly the use of such language cannot be tolerated.

However Oyston has not only insulted those with disabilities, he also appears to believe that normal everyday working people are also somehow beneath him and in doing so has widely insulted football fans across the country.

Here is one example of a text sent to a Blackpool fan by Karl Oyston...

"So let me get this straight, you think that despite knowing and being friendly with other chairman in the FL and PL, venture capitalists, bankers, entrepeneurs, very successful businessmen, government ministers, MP's and a whole host of notable worthies, that I should single out a fat flaccid painter and decorator/consultant whose crowning achievment is taking his poor family on holiday to Orlando for three torturous weeks a year? really? I suggest you slip discreetly back into whatever foul pond you emerged from. Crack on as I am enjoying myself. you are on toast and are too simple to realise it. In fact you have cheered me up no end and made me realise I am right to completely ignore the influential fans so cheers." Karl Oyston.

Karl Oyston is, as you may be aware, also on the Football League Board and therefore has an influential role in the decisions that may affect your football club. We firmly believe there is no place in football for anyone with such a dismissive attitude towards us, the fans.
Blackpool Fans also believe that Oyston should be removed from his position on the Football League board.


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Club President Valeri Belokon has called upon all Blackpool fans to support a petition for Club Chairman Karl Oyston to step down from his position with immediate effect.

Blackpool Supporters Trust would ask that our members , Blackpool fans and indeed all in the football community support Mr Belokons request and sign the attached petition that requests that Mr Karl Oyston step down from any position of influence in Blackpool FC immediately. This petition will be submitted to the FA and Football League as well as to Blackpool Football Club owner Mr Owen Oyston.

As many fans will be aware, Karl Oyston has recently been in the national and local media, having engaged in a series of abusive text exchanges with Blackpool supporters, which has further sullied the good name of Blackpool FC through association.

The attitude displayed by Mr Oyston, not only in regard to the unacceptable references to disabilities and ' special needs ' but in his general attitude towards hard working Blackpool fans in general makes him in our view unsuitable to hold a position of influence within our famous community football club.

For some time the relationship between Club and its fans has been strained and it is our firm belief that many of these issues are a direct result of Karl Oyston and his confrontational approach to the fan base. This latest outburst from Mr Oyston is simply a very public demonstration of an attitude that as has no place on football and decent society and which in addition has had a negative impact on relations between Karl Oyston and numerous managers , board members , members of the Press , players , fans and of course, Mr Belokon himself. When one individual manages to sour relations with so many other people, then the source of the problem becomes patently obvious. Karl Oyston seems incapable of managing everyday relationships without conflict and that cannot be good for Blackpool Football Club.

The time has come for Blackpool Football Club to move on into a new era of cooperation between Club and its fans and the wider community and for us to build upon the success that Valeri Belokon's substantial investment had brought about. Blackpool Supporters Trust call upon Mr Owen Oyston to remove Karl Oyston from any position of influence with immediate effect and re-establish a working relationship with Valeri Belokon, with a view to making positive progress, placing football first, investing properly for the success of the team and to start treating the fans and community of Blackpool with the respect that they deserve from the ambassador of our historic club.

Please sign the online petition detailing your full name & email address, together with any comments that you feel are relevant.


Sign Petition HERE





Thanks!!!

 

Can you show me the text message that the fan sent to Oyston?

 

I'm not ****ing reading that!

 

no, but I know loads and loads of them are absolutely desperate seeing their once great club slowly go to the dogs ...

 

once great ? theyve been crap for more years than not , plus , the towns an absolute cesspit

 

I don't see how people can judge this fairly unless we see what he was replying to? The initial text could be worse.

 

Tbh if I knew Watford players were sending out pics like this before the game, i'd be pissed off as well, but more at the players than the chairman.

 

I would also add that the term 'hard working Blackpool fans' is annoying. Sort of thing miliband and Cameron come out with.

 

Fans abuse chairman, chairman responds in kind. Not sure why this should be extra motivation to get rid of him.

As I said in the last 'please sign our petition' thread, the fans should boycott the games. All of them. Throwing tennis balls and unveiling banners is laughable.

 

Well, strictly speaking it doesn't affect me either, because I am a Reading fan. But ... it is on nearly 50 forums up and down the land, and many are indeed signing. Quite a few sites play joint inter-forum games, you guys included. And many comments coming back too - like this one from the Bournemouth forum admin lady "Signed - there are times when we have to stand together as fans, whoever our team, & this for me is one of them!". And that's how I see it. There are things that are perhaps bigger than any one club, and I, for one, insist the philosophy amongst members on my Reading forum is "Rivals, but Friends" ...

 

I wouldn't want Blackpool to go out of business, but anything short of that is okay with me - personally I find the antics of koko absolutely hilarious. And anyone who employs Nile Ranger deserves whatever they get.

 

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Do you see us as rivals? Scum. Do one with your Blackpool love in.

 

Karl Oyston seems like a top bloke. We need more people like him in football, prepared to call these types of fans for what they are, and give them the abuse they sorely deserve.

 

No one cared about us when Baz was stealing from the club, yet they all turned on us regarding the 'loans'.

It's got nothing to do with me and I'm not gettng involved.

 

Make you right Gags , handwringing *******s from a reading/Blackpool weirdo ultra fan, they werent complaining when having a ball in the premier league were they , plus , dont forget , they love ole hollowhead

Its a no from me , i`m out

 

You didn't specifically specify that you come in peace - therefore I can only assume you're a WUM and you're just fishing. Well, no bites from me, I'm out.

 

The petty-mindedness of some people! I've signed it - there but for the grace of God and all that.

 

To those who asked for the exchange of texts, if you're a 'sun+' member, the whole exchange is on there. This is a c&p from the sun

BLACKPOOL FC chairman Karl Oyston called a loyal fan a “******” and “f***tard” in a bitter foul-mouthed rant.
He launched his tirade at Steve Smith, branding him an “intellectual cripple”.

The text exchange was started by Steve to get some answers on the running of the Championship strugglers — who were thumped 6-1 at home by Bournemouth yesterday.

But the football boss referred to him and other disgruntled fans as “lower mentality types”.

Oyston raged at the dad-of-three: “Sorry your life is so s*** but that’s only your fault not mine. Enjoy the rest of your special needs day out.”

He asked: “Are you sure we’ve met? I’m sure I’d have remembered such a massive ******. Impossible to have a meaningful conversation with such a f******* as you.”

Oyston, whose dad Owen is a convicted rapist, may face an FA probe after being reported.

Business boss, Steve, 31, said Oyston banned him from the ground. He added: “As a chairman you should respond in a polite manner.”

Mencap called Oyston’s language “disgusting”.

Despite repeated requests, he was not available for comment.

Probably because he knows he's gone too far this time. For somebody who claims to be thick skinned and not bothered by fans chants, demonstrations etc, why is he having one fan (who has in a professional capacity done work for KO, some time ago, and has still not been paid) having the police on his doorstep, weekly, requiring him to accompany them to the station for questioning on the grounds of harassment? Why is he banning lifetime fans for the most puerile reasons? He is alienating his customer base because they dare challenge his decisions. Some things transcend rivalry, this is one. Oh, and why would someone who has publicly said he doesn't care for football be the chairman of a championship club AND be on the FL board?

 

Say what you like about Oysten, but at least he's a character in a time of unprecedented blandness in football. Not to agree with everything he says mind, but the game would be worse off without him.

 

Nothing worse than fans who give it out but can't take it

The bloke got hold of Oyston's private mobile number and sent him unsolicited abusive messages

 

Literally the most 'Reading' thing i've ever heard

Did you come up with that on your hobnob forum sponsored by Waitrose?

 

Wrong thread but I was meaning to mention this. Anyone else think the catering staff wearing watford tops at reading was embarrassing for them?

 

Were they holding an assortment of vegetables though? If so, it's a yes from me.

 

That's actually not my forum at all, that's another 'lesser' one, ha-ha! My forum does have that "Rivals, but Friends" philosophy, and it works a treat. When we started up four years ago I asked your admins and mods for help and they gave us very sound advice !! It's quite different having responsibilities organizing a forum to simply posting on it ... and I wouldn't change our progress one inch, we've got fantastic relations with the mods on many sites ...

 

Oyston's mobile number was posted on a BFC forum, I believe. As I understand it, the fan did not start the abusive comments. Whatever was said, did it warrant the crassness of oyston's comments regarding disabilities, 'special needs', belittling those who weren't born into the privileged life he has, implying that someone who works as a painter/decorator is fat and spends his year saving up for 3 weeks in Orlando? No. And that's the basis of this petition. His decision to use those words. I say again, is this befitting of a championship football club chairman and a member of the Football League board?

 

Why haven't your fans done anything before? You weren't complaining about him when you were doing well and got promoted. As has been said, what good does throwing tennis balls on the pitch do? If the fans were that unhappy then games would be boycotted but you still seem to get reasonable crowds. Seems that cost cutting has happened since you've been relegated and some fans aren't happy but the majority aren't bothered enough to do anything about it. Got no sympathy with you, sorry.

 

I love it when journos go asking people like Mencap for their biased opinions, in order to whip things up out of all proportion. Reminds me of this!

 

Blackpool fans only want him gone now they're losing.

 

same story with Vincent Tan, Cardiff fans quite happy to sell out their colours when they thought it meant premier league football, not so happy now its gone t*ts up

 

I hate it when fans of other clubs create petition threads. It's fair enough if it's a genuine cause........but this?

He's been very good for the club from what I can see. Taking Blackpool from League Two to the Premier league. No complaints about him then, and I'm sure he was just as obnoxious then as he is now.

These texts, however disgraceful, are being used as a lever to oust him. Had you been riding high in the Premier League I'm sure none of it would have seen the light of day.

Just because it's all gone wrong, you come bleating to other clubs to sign a petition to get him out. Sorry, but you made your bed and enjoyed the good times.....now it's your time to put up with the bad.

 

Same with Portsmouth. Happy to enjoy the ride until the fall.

 

To The OP, **** off and watch re-runs of the prem year / play off final (that you won!). Or you could go on to the Cardiff boards and moan together. They didn't moan about there woes when they were in the prem either!!

 

The reaction and "little old watford" from teams like little blackpool and small time cardiff etc find it hard for me to sympathise with them due to as previously alluded to, reaction we got with Baz, Russo's or Ashcroft. Yet those cheating loans?