[Football] Mohammed 'Al' Fayed

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He was a divisive character:
- the first foreign owner of a football club
- 'sharp' in business (shafted Lonrho for Harrods)
- pissed off the Royal Family mightily (& never got a UK passport as a result)
- wanted to make Fulham the 'Man Utd of the south')
- was a mate of Micheal Jackson and erected 'that' statue
But / and
- was a real football fan
- rescued an almost failed club from oblivion (notwithstanding Mickey Adams' amazing job of lifting us from 91st to promotion)
- attended most home games, walking round the pitch, twirling his scarf
- continued to invest for nearly 2 decades, losing millions in the process.

 

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essbee1

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I don't think you'll find much sympathy round here BC.

Despicable in my opinion.

 

Bakero

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essbee1 said:

I don't think you'll find much sympathy round here BC.

Despicable in my opinion.

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Why? I didn't realise he was hated. What did he do?

 

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essbee1

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Bakero said:

Why? I didn't realise he was hated. What did he do?

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An arrogant so and so who did f*****g NOTHING for Fulham.

 

Bakero

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essbee1 said:

An arrogant so and so who did f*****g NOTHING for Fulham.

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Didn't he fund their rise to the Premier League?

 

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Greg Bobkin

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My old uni mate used to work in Harrods (no, genuinely, he did) and he said Mo Fayed was shi... actually a decent enough bloke to work for.

 

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Greg Bobkin

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essbee1 said:

An arrogant so and so who did f*****g NOTHING for Fulham.

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That's not what an ACTUAL Fulham fan seems to be saying

 

Mr Bridger

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Bakero said:

Why? I didn't realise he was hated. What did he do?

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Can never, ever be forgiven for this atrocity.

 

Deadly Danson

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essbee1 said:

I don't think you'll find much sympathy round here BC.

Despicable in my opinion.

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Despicable Mo.

 

Bakero

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Mr Bridger said:

Can never, ever be forgiven for this atrocity.

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That was quite funny if you weren't a Fulham fan.

 

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Greg Bobkin said:

My old uni mate used to work in Harrods (no, genuinely, he did) and he said Mo Fayed was shi... actually a decent enough bloke to work for.

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I think the fact he’s a “he” probably had something to do with that

 

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essbee1

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Greg Bobkin said:

That's not what an ACTUAL Fulham fan seems to be saying

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He was a joker mate. A publicist and a self-promoting ****. Simple as.

 

Pavilionaire

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Dead Dodi's Dad Died.

 

clapham_gull

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History will judge him as a dodgy character who took on an even more dodgy establishment.

 

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essbee1

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Whatever, anyway. Brighton Cottager sorrry for any offence mate. Generally - he was a person who tried to do good. So
respect there,

 

BN9 BHA

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Mr Bridger said:

Can never, ever be forgiven for this atrocity.

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BrightonCottager

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I said he was a divisive character.

I can still remember the day that my dad (2nd or 3rd generation Cottager) rang me up to tell me his boss had bought Fulham. My dad was working for the Harrods owned insurance company called Genavco. I'd asked him what the company name meant and it was MAF's idea - it was the team he'd played for in Egypt.

It's embarrassing that we (some of us) still sing about him - he eventually stopped pumping his money in. But he did turn us round and stick around, as has Tony Bloom with you lot.

Another plus - he properly funded the Fulham Women's team until the FA reneged on their promises to set up a proper structure and promote it.

 

MJsGhost

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Mr Bridger said:

Can never, ever be forgiven for this atrocity.

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[cough]

 

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portslade seagull

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How was that not handball, hit Ward Prowse on the arm
Oops wrong thread

 

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I was there the day Michael Jackson was paraded around the pitch. It was sunny (May, I think) and he was sheltering under an umbrella. I was standing in the Enclosure, alongside the pitch, and remember commenting that MJ must have been a Fulham fan because he was both black and white. Its fair to say that all Fulham fans hated that statue for many different reasons. It's now been replaced by a decent George Cohen statue and is in a storeroom at the National Football Museum.