Ken
Scouse Pilgrim has overstepped the mark with his 'cretinous lump' insult.
Either he is banned or I will no longer post and delete my account.
I was clearing out emails from my Hotmail account the other day and stumbled across a large cache of emails from Mark, much like one might stumble across an unexploded ordnance on a building site. They dated from the days when he was involved getting the Trust up and running. The remarkable and surprising thing is that the correspondence is, initially at least, reasonable, logical, level-headed and laced with an articulate, good-humoured logic you struggle to find in emails a few months later.
I’m not entirely sure what happened, but it swiftly degenerated into nonsensical mud-slinging and personal tirades, when he had become the Mark we read today on this forum. The interesting thing, of course, is that back then we were fighting a common enemy: the Lavaflow crooks. Except this was a theoretical fight, since the trust never really got to the point of making a tangible impact beyond pissing a few people off. Mark’s behaviour at that time was counterproductive and detrimental to the efforts put in by others, like Pat Everitt and Mick Taylor, who are actual fans who go to games and genuinely have the best interests of the club at heart. In fact, I remember having a very long conversation with Dave Boyle at Supporters Direct about how we might be able to permanently bar Mark from the Trust. I think most people got thoroughly fed up and quit long before any of Dave’s good advice could be implemented.
The point being that Mark is exhibiting exactly the behaviour now as he did then, which to me suggests it really doesn’t matter who runs the club. A chairman could be genuinely malicious or entirely benevolent, but you can be sure Mark that regardless of who is in charge, Mark will be online, wittering away, winding people up with a copy of Roget’s next to him, because he is a classic narcissist; a self-absorbed megalomaniac with extra smiley faces. I highly doubt David Newton’s trembling in his boots at any of Mark’s ramblings (if he’s even bothered reading them) and why should he? Mark’s opinions are ultimately irrelevant. He was incapable of leading an organised charge against the Lavaflow crooks, so what hope does he have of ever undermining the plans laid down by the infinitely more credible Chestnut Homes? None.
Personally, even though he’d probably lump me in with everyone as a cretinous lump (as insults go, you have to admit that one’s quite funny) I quite like the bloke… well, the version I met in the mid-2000s anyway, I haven’t gone fishing with him recently. I find him entertaining in his own unique way. Just don’t take him too seriously, or ever become involved in anything he’s part of.
