A Man Without A Team: A Man With Another Team, Technically

Here's what's been happening recently:

* Message boards have been infested with aggressive idiots demanding that people are judged now on what they were led to believe two years ago

* Same idiots are spreading rumours and disinformation about previous regimes

* The supporters' association has announced another EGM, with a view to asking whether they ought to a) stay as an independentish entity from BCFC as it is, or b) look into starting another club from scratch

* The same wrongheaded nonsense about 'how will you fund it'/'your six quid is a drop in the ocean to the regime, so your boycott is of no value'/'you are all sat in bedsits wanking off' is being perpetuated. I assume that the same Twitter handle that I swiftly blocked is still doing the same. I'm too tired of this shit to really check.

So, as well as not engaging in social media spats I think I might well stop posting entirely. What's the point? There is no actual debate to be had when people have already made up their minds. Based on lies, based on 'opinions' and based on fuck all aside from ego-tripping arseholery.

Now then. I assume that previous paragraph could be invoked by regime supporters, too. They would of course be entirely wrong to do so: the facts are obvious for all to see, including this from the auditors.

What happens from this point onward is fairly moot. But the underlying cause of all the problems is this:

* The incoming regime, three years ago or whatever, only needed to keep SVS out of the picture and also ensure that the books were signed off by accountants. That is literally the two things they needed to do, bottom line, even if SVJ did become involved as a director of football. He is actually quite good at that. 

Hypothetically, if they had had the wit about them to ensure the books were (or even appeared to be) squeaky-clean, then Bangor City would not have been relegated, but been in Europe with an excellent chance of getting through at least one round with that excellent team they had. That would be about 500k and upwards coming back into the coffers, clean as you like, and available to pay back loans and/or perpetuate the success.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to not realise this?

Well, all that shit is just an old argument anyway. Fuck it all, fuck them all to hell.

It was a revelation to me this week when I remembered that, technically, though born in Bangor I spent my first year and a bit living in Bethesda. So, really, I have a hometown side that I can turn to if needs be. I like Pesda a lot. It's grey and slatey and purple and pisses it down, of course, but there's a fucking ace cafe there and the footy ground always looked pretty to me. 

It could be a new Farrar Road, really. 

Well, so be it. I couldn't do it anyway. It's not really my team, my club, my heart. I think you only really get one of those per lifetime. Over to John Lennon.

 

AMWAT: New media magnificence

Well, that was fun. A new 'supporter' under a pseudonym popped up recently on ye olde Twatter. This person appeared not long after the club appointed a new press officer. And his feed hit 'like' on every official story, and retweeted anything positive about the club like old match reports from years gone by.

A good way, a genius thinks, to get in with the fanbase. Be one! Like what they like!
I mean, it's hardly social media (advanced level) stuff is it. But kinda harmless enough.
As are posts that say things like, "Time to pull together and support the lads", which is pretty brainless given everything that's gone on, but again at best naive and asking for a slapback.

Anyway one of the comrades put a jokey post up, offering odds on who this daft sausage really was. I reckoned it was the new bloke. So he had a pop back, getting nastier and nastier and actually homophobic quite quickly.

So within about three minutes of me even noticing him - it has to be a bloke, from the style of blunt-nosed idiocy - I blocked him. Daft twat.

I mean. It might well be someone else. I think there's one other strong candidate and that is someone who for some strange reason has got into bed with the regime of their own accord, despite their protestations that they're neutral.

But it is a coincidence, and a funny few minutes in an ever-more-sordid and desperate situation.

Jings, what have we become?

Clix

A click

And it engages

First the media baits

Then the gun blasts

Then the media baits

Cause it enrages

For clicks

I can't

A thousand words glistening just out of reach

If I could have tamed them then maybe my life would be different

But I didn’t

Now I can’t

And I can’t

Cause I didn’t

If I’d have known then what would happen to you

I would have stayed longer and had one more smoky malt whisky

But I didn’t

Now I can’t

And I can’t

Cause you’re gone

If I could pause everything just for a moment

Gleam silver wonders and rest all the sad times on feathers

I would do it

But I can’t

But who can

No-one can

The future’s a liar. The past slits your throat.

The present’s illusion. The trick is to try and believe it

And I’m trying

Boy, I'm trying

Cause I can

Do no more.

AMWAT: An actual EGM

So things are moving now. It feels like there's a plan. The BCFCSA had a very fruitful and progressive EGM and the minutes are here.

Events on the pitch are largely irrelevant; there's no guarantee the club would get a Tier 2 licence now. This is ludicrous given how good Nantporth was a couple of years ago: custom-built, hosting Under-21 games on one of the best pitches in the country.

Well. Now it has a sign up saying 'dangerous site' or similar. It's enough to make you laugh really.

As are the unwise Twitter arguments I still somehow get in, where there are people saying things like "now more than ever we need to get behind the club" and basically accusing anyone who isn't eating the regime's ass, of being fairweather supporters. Well, fuck that. 35 years or so and many, many financial crises and collections and sponsorships and newspaper columns and... well. It's crass isn't it to shout about this stuff.

Equally, I'm not fucking having it. This is a dead club. It has ceased to be.

There used to be a bar in Liverpool when I was living there called Norwegian Blue. It was shit and now it's closed down anyway.

Everything's fucked isn't it. I have no team. The country is in a worse state than ever before and paralysed by division and unnecessary fucking nonsense. The environment is spinning out of control. What a bunch of cock it all is.

But hey ho, what can you do? Apart from take legal advice, and incorporate, and work with Supporters' Direct, and look to the future.

And stop trying to change the minds of regime gimps. It's impossible. Collaborators one and all, and on the wrong side of history. La historia no absolveran, lo siento folks.

5PM UPDATE: SVJ is back, as chairman. No doubt he knows his footy and has an eye for a player, but this is entirely different.

Here is a worrying quote: "VSM will remain the Clubs major creditor and continue to be the PSC."


Here are some acronyms I found for PSC. I think it means they are going to be the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, which is great - Nantporth will become a transcontinental hub for tetraflop-speed computers, feeding the Pennsylvanian city.

Can't wait.

Acronym	Definition
PSC	Public Service Commission
PSC	Printer Scanner Copier (Hewlett-Packard)
PSC	Production Sharing Contract
PSC	Police Service Commission (various locations)
PSC	Persons with Significant Control (UK)
PSC	Product Safety Committee (various organizations)
PSC	Program Support Center (US DHHS)
PSC	Permanent Split Capacitor (electric motor)
PSC	Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE)
PSC	Professional Standards Commission
PSC	Professional Services Council
PSC	Philippine Sports Commission
PSC	Port State Control
PSC	Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (liver disease)
PSC	Progress Software Corporation (Bedford, MA)
PSC	Print, Scan, Copy
PSC	Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
PSC	Peace and Security Council (African Union)
PSC	Psychological Services Center
PSC	Population Studies Center (University of Michigan)
PSC	Product and Service Code
PSC	Primary Stroke Center (various locations)
PSC	Public Safety Canada
PSC	Private Security Company
PSC	Partido Social Cristiano (Social Christian Party)
PSC	Conservative Party (Colombia)
PSC	Project Steering Committee
PSC	Personal, Social and Community (various organizations)
PSC	Potential Source of Contamination
PSC	Parallel to Serial Converter
PSC	Printer Scanner Copier
PSC	Point Source Catalog
PSC	Platform Support Center
PSC	Philips Sound Card
PSC	Peugeot Style Centre
PSC	Payload Service Class
PSC	Print Server Command
PSC	Picture Start Code
PSC	Phb Scheduling Class
PSC	Primary Site Controller
PSC	Personal Super Computer
PSC	Portable Storage Control
PSC	Port Sense Control
PSC	Plant Science Center (various locations)
PSC	Peru State College (Peru, Nebraska, USA)
PSC	Postsynaptic Current (biology)
PSC	Prospective Short Circuit
PSC	Programmable Security Code (software)
PSC	Political and Security Committee (EU)
PSC	Personal Services Contract
PSC	Personnel Service Center
PSC	Peter Symonds College (UK)
PSC	Public Sector Comparator
PSC	Personal Service Corporation
PSC	Polar Stratospheric Clouds
PSC	Protein Sciences Corporation (Meriden, CT)
PSC	Project Safe Childhood (US Department of Justice)
PSC	Program Safeguard Contractor (US Medicare)
PSC	Partido Social Cristão (Social Christian Party - Brazil)
PSC	Presidential Search Committee (various universities)
PSC	Paul Smith's College (New York)
PSC	Plymouth State College (Plymouth, NH)
PSC	Peer Support Centre (various locations)
PSC	Parti Social Chretien (Belgian political party)
PSC	Pacific Science Center (Seattle, Washington)
PSC	Private Security Contractor
PSC	Pacific Salmon Commission
PSC	Public Sector Committee
PSC	Professional Services Contract
PSC	Process Sensors Corporation (various locations)
PSC	Pastor Search Committee
PSC	Publishing Software Company (UK)
PSC	Piano di Sicurezza e Coordinamento (Italian safety legislation)
PSC	Public Service Content
PSC	Program Service Center (Social Security Administration)
PSC	Power Sales Contract
PSC	Polar Science Center
PSC	Planned Shopping Center
PSC	Passenger Service Charge (airline industry charge)
PSC	Principal Subordinate Command (US DoD)
PSC	Point Source Catalogue
PSC	Posterior Subcapsular Cataract
PSC	Professional Service Corporation
PSC	Pre-Stressed Concrete (construction)
PSC	Planning Sub-Committee (various organizations)
PSC	Postal Service Center
PSC	Program Steering Committee
PSC	Planning Section Chief
PSC	Public Sector Company
PSC	Philip Services Corporation (Houston, TX)
PSC	Proficiency in Survival Craft
PSC	Portland Symphonic Choir (Portland, OR)
PSC	Pro Sports Club (various locations)
PSC	Passed Staff Course (various locations)
PSC	Parkes Shire Council (Australia)
PSC	Port Security Company (US DoD)
PSC	Private Sector Care
PSC	Product Safety Council (consumer protection)
PSC	Planning Steering Committee (various organizations)
PSC	Pagos Spreadsheet Component (software)
PSC	Plastic Surgery Clinic
PSC	Prague Stringology Conference
PSC	Political Science Club
PSC	Pastoral Stewardship Council (various organizations)
PSC	Product Service Center
PSC	Personal Security Code
PSC	Personnel Sub-Committee (various organizations)
PSC	Pneumatic System Controller (aviation)
PSC	Private Sector Council
PSC	Primary Scrambling Code (cellular signal)
PSC	Pimp Squad Click (band)
PSC	Product Support Coordinator
PSC	Personnel Service Company
PSC	Phoenix Sports Center (Phoenix, AZ)
PSC	Pacific Southwest Container (Modesto, CA)
PSC	Portable Speaker Case
PSC	Social Center Party (Morocco)
PSC	Parallel-to-Serial Converter
PSC	Power Systems Conference
PSC	Philadelphia Service Center
PSC	Portland Stage Company (Maine, USA)
PSC	Portrait Society of Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
PSC	Premier Service Certified (real estate)
PSC	Program Scientific Committee (conferences)
PSC	Partnership Solution Center (IBM)
PSC	Potomac Speleological Club (Washington, DC)
PSC	Portable Single Camera
PSC	Philadelphia Soccer Club
PSC	Pacific Security Capital (Beaverton, OR)
PSC	Personal Service Center
PSC	Passed Staff College
PSC	Project Subcommittee
PSC	Passive Star Coupler (communications networks)
PSC	Parallel Sampling Condition
PSC	Penang Shipbuilding and Construction (Malaysia)
PSC	Program Site Coordinator (EPA)
PSC	Palm School Choir (Texas)
PSC	Program Support Communications
PSC	Pearland Shooting Club (Pearland, TX)
PSC	Pentagon Ski Club (Washington, DC)
PSC	Protection Switching Count (SONET)
PSC	Performance Seeking Control
PSC	Playstation Compact (camera)
PSC	Primary Synchronisation Code (UMTS)
PSC	Power-Spectrum Condition
PSC	Para Seu Conhecimento (Portuguese: for your information)
PSC	Platelet Shape Change
PSC	Packet Switching Capability
PSC	Preservation Society of Charleston (South Carolina, USA)
PSC	Premium Synthetic Crude Oil
PSC	Products and Services Committee (Cooperative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries; Australia)
PSC	Privatization Support Contractor
PSC	Port Security Committee
PSC	Portable Satellite Communications
PSC	Paralegal Society of Canada
PSC	Print Server Control
PSC	Pasco, Washington - Tri Cities (airport code)
PSC	Plymouth Swim Club
PSC	Pediatric Specialty Center
PSC	primary synovial chondromatosis
PSC	Postal Service Commission (UK)
PSC	Pesquisa de Satisfação de Clientes
PSC	Personal Safeguard Companion (Chapman Technologies)
PSC	Primary Command-and-Control Single-Channel
PSC	Pharmacy Student Council (various universities)
PSC	Pacific Science Council
PSC	Powerloom Service Centre (India)
PSC	PacketStorm Communications, Inc.
PSC	Packet Switching Cluster
PSC	Procurement Source Code
PSC	Pharmacy Service Center
PSC	Pre-Selected Campaign
PSC	Platform Support System
PSC	Printer Spacing Chart
PSC	Chief Port Security Specialist (USCG rating)
PSC	Protection Switching Circuit
PSC	Price Signal Code
PSC	Pure Savage Conspiracy (Quake 2 gaming clan)
PSC	Power Steering Component (vehicles)
PSC	Production Surveillance Category
PSC	Pathology Study Center
PSC	Per Ship's Compass (nautical navigation)
PSC	Production Schedule Completion
PSC	Pre Selection Course
PSC	Private Supplier Catalog
PSC	Publication Status Code
PSC	Physical Security Code
PSC	Parameter Set Concept
PSC	Personnel Service Commission
PSC	Principle Support Commands
PSC	Programmable Sort Controller
PSC	Project Status Control
PSC	Packing Service Contract
PSC	Preferred System Concept (US DoD acquisitions)
PSC	Parallel Synchronous Communications
PSC	Purchase Selection Criteria
PSC	Prefix Synchronizable Code
PSC	Proxy Signaling Client
PSC	Power Source Council
PSC	Parabolic Scattering Cluster
PSC	Probe Steering Committee
PSC	Prime Support Contractor
PSC	Premises Splice Cabinet
PSC	Prefetch Sent Counter (computing)
PSC	Provisioning Schedule Code
PSC	Protection Switch Completion (Nortel)
PSC	Psè Poštovní Smìrovací Èíslo (Czech: Post Identification Number)
PSC	Post-Static Firing Checkout (NASA)
PSC	Programme des Spécialistes Canadiens (Canadian Specialists Program)
PSC	Programme Sectoriel Centralisé (French: Centralized Sector Program; Algeria)