Wing Attack Plan R
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Prince Andrew asking for a tour now of the women’s youth set up.
He saved my Nans cat from drowning. Equilibrium reached.Tune in tomorrow where it'll be revealed Rasmus Hojlund once threw a dog off a bridge.
300k a week hopefullyWhat next? Bringing in Adam Johnson on a short term deal.
To be fair, that does sound like something emperor Nero would say after Rome has burned to the ground.I just don't have the emotional energy to be constantly outraged by everything.
agreed. if you’re going to employ that many rapists and abusers, it’s only natural that the odd nonce is going to slip through the net.I just don't have the emotional energy to be constantly outraged by everything.
That's wild but it doesn't surprise me. I suppose the policy is "heh doesn't ring a bell, must be fine" and no one googling it. And 95% of the time it's of no great importance, probably. Someone else mentioned how curated some of the content associated to the club is (with regards to the former women's team, how it makes ownership look, etc), it's not uncommon dissonance in big corpos butThe club really is this badly run, I can recall working on an event at OT, it was a book launch for David Icke, it seemed nobody reconised the name when the event was being booked in, we pointed out that perhaps this was not somebody the club would want to be associated with and were met with indifference, it was only at the last minute that the event got cancelled.
don't give them ideas he played on the right didn't he? He will slot right in.What next? Bringing in Adam Johnson on a short term deal.
Interesting if true, but not surprising at all.I know the people responsible for the museum thing (which is no more than a 50 word panel on a wall about managers) and during their research, a well-regarded expert in local football who's written several books about it told them there had been some kind of falling out. The other historians they deal with don't mention it either. There's no mention on the Internet of anything to do with his convictions up until today's story. In fact, if you do a Websearch for his name prior to 2022, you'll find nothing.
Everything that the museum does has to go through several levels of branding and management all the way up to Richard Arnold. And none of them flagged anything. Worth noting that the club curator at the time had been there since the early 90s and was not aware.
The bigger story here is actually that the museum staff had to fight branding to include any mention at all of the old MUFC Ladies side in the museum, as they only wanted to mention the current Womens team. The implication being that to acknowledge the Ladies was to admit that the Glazers had closed them down.
Can you guess who it is yet?Thankfully one of them is dead
No chance. These guys are teflon. They'll be doing everything that they can to make sure that Antony continues to play and they'll just carry on as normal.Absolutely disgusting from the club. I'm not usually one for those who slag the club off but how this can happen is unbelievable. Surely heads have to roll and the club needs to make amends for this?
time to update the club badge, and maybe give Fred the Red a makeover while we’re at it.
Difficult? it costs like £20 to do a check, loads of companies do it routinely for new hires. It's already been established he was on the FAs register anyway which seems like such a basic check for a sporting institution.Interesting if true, but not surprising at all.
For the better or worst, criminal records are not a public thing, so it would’ve been difficult for people at the club to know he’d been convicted. You don’t run criminal background checks on everyone. You usually do it only for security related jobs or jobs with access to sensitive information.
In terms of PR, you go have a look on what you can find publicly, maybe go ask people who worked with the guest, but that’s it. You don’t go to great lengths for a minor event at the club’s museum.
Even if you want to cheap out - Google is all that would be required.Difficult? it costs like £20 to do a check, loads of companies do it routinely for new hires. It's already been established he was on the FAs register anyway which seems like such a basic check for a sporting institution.
Needs new owners and a complete clear-out. Reset it all.Absolutely disgusting from the club. I'm not usually one for those who slag the club off but how this can happen is unbelievable. Surely heads have to roll and the club needs to make amends for this?
I saw him on that book tour at Hillsborough a friend bought two tickets, you did right cancelling I fell asleep half way through. Raised a few interesting points about his view of the world then descended into very long ramblings. Was essentially him and a PowerPoint show for around 4 hours without a breakThe club really is this badly run, I can recall working on an event at OT, it was a book launch for David Icke, it seemed nobody reconised the name when the event was being booked in, we pointed out that perhaps this was not somebody the club would want to be associated with and were met with indifference, it was only at the last minute that the event got cancelled.
Well according to the poster I quoted, there was nothing made public.Even if you want to cheap out - Google is all that would be required.
If @decorativeed is right, Google wouldn't have told you much before this week.Even if you want to cheap out - Google is all that would be required.
You make the mistake of thinking that the footballing part of the business is involved in the media side of the business. The various branches and departments at United work as though they are competing against each other rather than being part of the same organisation. The fact that the club is called United is one of the most ironic things I've come across.Difficult? it costs like £20 to do a check, loads of companies do it routinely for new hires. It's already been established he was on the FAs register anyway which seems like such a basic check for a sporting institution.
Try it yourself with a custom date range in your search. Absolutely nothing to be found.Even if you want to cheap out - Google is all that would be required.
Again, easier said than done, given the lax record keeping for non-professionals who played for MUFC ladies, the fact the higher-ups at the club want to distance themselves from/erase the very existance of the old women's team and that 20-plus year gap between them playing and the club inviting Konopka....
But yeah the club fecked up, they should’ve at least reached out to the women who played when he was a coach
yeah, exactly. I don’t think people understand what the Manchester United Ladies was in the 80s and 90sAgain, easier said than done, given the lax record keeping for non-professionals who played for MUFC ladies, the fact the higher-ups at the club want to distance themselves from/erase the very existance of the old women's team and that 20-plus year gap between them playing and the club inviting Konopka.
Bit of an overreaction, nobody knew who the hell this bloke was, a couple of days agoHeads should roll for this. It’s just absolute negligence and stupidity from our side.
Think it’s probably more to do with the context. The club is being battered from all sides at the moment, something like this isn’t needed. We don’t know who he was but I do expect those involved at the club to do so.Bit of an overreaction, nobody knew who the hell this bloke was, a couple of days ago
If it makes you feel better, every member of curatorial staff has left the museum since 2022 due to the toxic management culture there.Heads should roll for this. It’s just absolute negligence and stupidity from our side.
I actually agree mate.Again, easier said than done, given the lax record keeping for non-professionals who played for MUFC ladies, the fact the higher-ups at the club want to distance themselves from/erase the very existance of the old women's team and that 20-plus year gap between them playing and the club inviting Konopka.
Yeah I can imagine that but if our events management team (or whatever the department is called)/don't have a governance step to do basic checks on those they're inviting as guest of honour then it's a poor reflection.You make the mistake of thinking that the footballing part of the business is involved in the media side of the business. The various branches and departments at United work as though they are competing against each other rather than being part of the same organisation. The fact that the club is called United is one of the most ironic things I've come across.
Also, as I say, I know people involved in this and literally all they were doing when researching was looking for managerial stats. There was zero information about Konopka on the internet prior to 2022, a search for him only brought up a doctor by the same name, so the only way they would have had of knowing about his conviction is if somebody remembered it from the time. The only info they had that was printed was in some old photocopies of MUFC Ladies programmes from the 90s, so it obviously didn't flag up his conviction.
Once those stats were up in the museum, the people who run media presumably chose to invite him to the game.