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You're right about the lawyers. I get the impression that most of those people complaining about what DK had to say [some of whom may even have read the book] would have been even louder in their condemnation if he had produced a bland, uncritical tome that failed to reflect his true feelings...

I think I'm fairly idealistic about the Albion. Nothing I've heard prevents me from supporting the club or being optimistic about the future. Okay, there are things I'd change, but that's true of almost everyone on NSC. My biggest fear has always been that they'll become something hateful and...

Neither before nor since. As I've said, the journalist in question doesn't know Charlie Sale that well. Plus there's no anti-DC agenda beyond being critical of an apparent judging of a book without having read it and wondering if someone who can afford a helicopter thinks the same way about...

Ha! I can see how people might think that - but I understand from close friends of the journalist in question that he's not that big a chum of CS's, he hasn't got an anti-Bloom/Perry agenda (never met Ray Bloom, always got on very well with Perry) and has no particular reason to publicise the...

So you agree with me. It's brilliant that we somehow hung in there against big-time professional outfits.

I repeat my earlier point - and I believe that, for example, Tooting Gull will back me - that the Charlie Sale column is one that every sports writer reads. While a bit of a Lunchtime O'Booze character, he is ludicrouly well-connected. And it's highly unlikely that he would have plucked the...

I don't know about anyone else, but I find it encouraging to know that such an amateur production can gain three promotions and win serious planning battles against determined opposition. Because you'd really expect "amateur-hour personified" to have sunk into non-League, especially playing at...

Sorry, have you actually read the rest of this thread?

I don't think that Ray Bloom, even at his most revisionist, would suggest Dick isn't an Albion fan.

That was true before publication, but the publishers approached the club once they had read it. From today's Daily Fail: "Brighton directors have decreed that the club will not sell life president Dick Knight’s book Mad Man because of alleged inaccuracies. Two board members, Martin Perry and...

We Want Falmer was also in stock but they almost gave the last copies away in the concourse sale in summer.

Isn't the point of the whole share business that DK wasn't the owner? He didn't have a majority shareholding.

If the share thing is the reason, why not say so? While I have nothing but contempt for the Fail, Charlie Sale is widely regarded in the sports writing world as the best news columnist, so if he's saying that RB and MP have objected, then he'll have got that from a good source..

It's not technically an application form. And in any case, the explanation for not stocking it in the Charlie Sale piece was that Ray Bloom and Martin Perry disagree with Dick's version of some things.

I can't see why the club want to keep the controversy alive by refusing to stock the book. If they had just quietly taken delivery of a few hundred copies and put them on sale in the shops*, there would be no story for Charlie Sale's Daily Mail column, and no further debate on here. They would...

The club hadn't seen it before it came out so didn't make a decision.

Interesting that the Mail says that Ray Bloom and Martin Perry consider parts of the book inaccurate. So presumably Derek Chapman, Tony Bloom and Peter Godfrey are okay with the parts that mention them.

Having a divided view on every other subject on the sun has never stopped NSC members supporting the Albion.