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.....lost!

We won the Court Case in the Court of Appeal today!

Phew!

Good the fat greek cunt can fuck off and die now!!

 :beers: Excellent news and a big  :smugfu: to Mike Diamandis.

Best news all day.

Fuck you Diamandis.

Thank fuck for that. Whilst I'm sure it wouldn't have caused us major financial difficulty, the idea of giving that vile creature any money is horrible. I'd rather hand a cheque over to the board of Oxford United.

He can't do a counter appeal of his own can he?

And then we can counter the counter.  Eventually, surely, the process must stop.  (I don't know btw).

Oh, and Diamond Mike...fuck off.

Fantastic News!

Well done Mr Fitton and all at STFC.

Have we finally seen the back of the old regime now?

Get in there!!  At last something to be pleased about.  That felt as good as a win.

Very happy with that indeed.

The OS had a nice little snippet at the end of the article:

"For Swindon Town FC this has been a very time demanding and costly exercise but hopefully the final vestiges of the club's previous history of mismanagement."

Get in.

Wooooooooohooo! Mike Diamandis piece of shit haha!

From Twitter:

Good news.......Charlie will be staying ;D

As Sam reports....a while to go yet maybe.

Great stuff.

"and the club was awarded costs (on a conditional basis) which it will now seek to re-claim from the other side."

I think this is my favourite part.

Excellent news - I hope we hever have to hear his name again.

Not in connection with this club, anyway though I'd happy to hear his name in connection with a castration, poisoning, stabbing - you get the picture.  :)

I'm not sure I fully get the picture, could you provide a few more examples?

Hanging, meeting a firing squad, having a red hot poker stuck up his arse - any more?  :D

Get Ben to draw a picture of that! I still dont get the picture :D

Another interesting note from the bottom of the adver article:


Wills' seem to have divorced themselves from everyone's favourite adviser.

Maybe they have seen the light & now see what a complete knob he is

maybe they couldnt afford to be ripped off anymore?

It would go High Court - Court of Appeal - House of Lords - European Courts ...

But then, you have to ask how far Diamond Mike would go for £300k - considering the above routes would cost him much more if he lost.

 It's taken the reappearance of Diamond Mike to get a statement on the OS...fuck the football this shit was always much more fun....just a shame it's not a Friday night.

 I miss the days of blimps and back of the Arkell's protests....all that to get a load of mongs calling for Wilson to go cos we're a bit shit atm. Was it worth it?

House of Lords. Talk to me!

A vital victory. I doubt we'll ever fully appreciate what could have happened has the club lost it's appeal today. I dread to think.

I dare say that Mike Diamandis will return again.

In HD :D

like ive been saying in Fitton we trust!!!

Indeed

Sounds like a campaign for safe anal sex

Fantastic unfortunelty he will more than likely find a way of getting out of paying costs probably by bankrupting himself

If he does that at least he won't have any dough to drag up some more fake invoices etc.

Glad the club won, as these are probably invoices which came out of the woodwork in 2007 just before the takeover happened.

With his reputation, I'm surprised Diamandis found lawyers to represent him. Hope his lawyers got paid in advance !!!

It's the Supreme Court now

Seems like a good advert for wonga.com and their fast cash loans

This has made me very happy. Love the way the club statement phrased the bit about costs! Let's hope this sends the crooked bastard into a terminal decline

(And referencing back to someone earlier, the Wills fell out with him shortly after the takeover, apparently)

It's Terry Tibbs...talk to me!

There is a god !

Hope he rots in hell

It's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

P.S. any hint as to why the Wills fell out aside from the obvious Diamond was a crook and a cunt part.

Probably tried to claim money off them at some point.

I think the penny just finally dropped. Probably about the time they realised that was all they were left with thanks to his "advice". Shame it didn't drop five or so years earlier when they were slagging off anyone who dared suggest Mighty Mike might not be all he was cracked up to be on the genius businessman front

In Bostik we trust............

I wonder if Diamond Mike paid over the VAT on the invoice over to the taxman...

I like your style, SO69 :nod:

As well as not paying the VAT, he's probably planning to claim the whole lot against bad debt relief as well, the cunt.

Wouldn't it be just shit if the VAT man were to be tipped off by someone?

Having read the statement on the official site it seems Diamandis placed a winding up petition on the Club. Also the Court had to hold £300k for the appeal to go through which is now given back to the Club.

I can see why Fitton was so pissed off with it all. I wouldn't expect this to be the last we deal with Diamandis though.

Wow De-Je-vu or what.  Woke this morning in Singapore to see Diamandis name all over my phone , yikes was this a cheese induced nightmare or had I slipped back 5 years into my previous role as stalking horse in chief!  I have no doubt that the Wills have at last got the message, how much pain and misery can one family endure even if they do have some dodgy genes to contend with?  This man deserves every bit of abuse he gets in fact I think he got off very lightly, as he once said to me ' I know where you live'  nice man.  Perhaps we should organise a reunion for Bob Sandy Willie and Diamond for old time sake, just dont let the Greek hold the beer money.  As many people have commented the present problems on the pitch are nothing to the situation this club was in during his magnificent reign.  Ive still got about 40 orange hats and a load of car stickers in my garage at home just in case!  Happy New Year to all that know me or even that pretend not to anymore (cheer up Nigel you miserable old sod).  All will be well, Goodbye Charlie and lets rebuild, nothing can compare with those dark days!  Mike

That cunt wont be getting a penny! Unlucky.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~2269358,00.html

With his dosh gone, you must be thinking about sneaking back into the country now then?

I bet those fans that moaned at us protesting against Diamandis & Co. at the back of the Arkells feel a bit fucking stupid?

When I was speaking to an ex work colleague last night on the phone about the Greek, he didn't know about the club winning the case.

I read out the club statement to him, and when I got to the part about claiming costs from him, he gave a massive cheer and decided to go to the club site to read it himself.

The pleasures all mine Delta !!

With all legit businesses, the VAT is normally paid to HMRC at the time when the invoiced is raised. I very much doubt that one penny has been paid by him to HMRC. He probably didn't even declare it as an invoice to HMRC.

Good post, Spud.

There were plenty of slimy, cock-suckers like Nigel Bennet who gave it the big one when the protests evenyually kicked off against Diamond Mike and his chinless, guttless, opportunistic financiers.

On the subject of Diamond Mike; I'm led to believe from a mate who lives and works in Ramsbury that he's now going after the Wills family for the £300k compo that he tried to get the club to pay. Serious.

They must be sooo fucking pissed off with wanking all that money away on the advice of a slimy greek failed businessman like Diamandis. And they're still not rid of him after all this time!

I'd be surprised if the chinless old cunt is allowed anywhere near the family cheque book after that fucking debacle, let alone getting anywhere near even a sniff of Lady Wills' royal box;-)

Sounds very much like Mr D's MO - not so much biting the hand that feeds as trying to gnaw the arm off. I wonder if his lawyers know they're operating on a "No win, No fee" basis yet? Or more likely, just a "No fee no matter what the outcome" basis.

If anyone wants to remember just how much of a joke this club was in terms of board level management I refer you to this article:

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/1771517.0/

" I bought 52,000 shares for a laugh", what a huge cunt!

That's a bit of an under statement there.

I also hate calling him "Diamond Mike" Sounds like some loveable rogue from a old Carry on Film whereas I'd stick with "that cunt diamandis"

When I was at the club on Wednesday before doing my fathers ashes I was 99% certain that I saw him walking around the County Ground and hanging around the club shop in a track suit with a hat on, he looked me straight in the eye and I swear it was him, he looked thoroughly miserable and looked at me like he was waiting for me to say something to him.

I have met him in the past when I worked at the club and I am certain it was him.

Not sure what he was doing there though if indeed it was him.

His tracksuit had a hat on?

I'd be reasonably certain it wasn't him:

a) Couldn't imagine anyone less persona non grata at the CG this week in the aftermath of the court case. Apart from possibly Charlie's agent.
b) He only ever wears that blue jumper and trousers - I'm sure he must have about 50 of them jumpers. Don't even want to think about the mental image of Diamandis in a tracksuit
c) If he went into the club shop, he'd be at risk of putting money INTO the club. That's not how things work in Diamandis-land

Perhaps he was trying to steal 300k from the till?

Smash and grab on the STFC-branded jelly sweets?

And I would also agree. Fitton couldn't even mention his name at the AGM.

Maybe we should send him some of that funny muney the Trust printed off towards the end of the protests (I think I've got some at home somewhere). It's the only money he's likely to get off STFC.

Let's send him 300k of Diamandis funny money :D

I've still got the original design somewhere.

It was the absolute splitting image of him but the whole tracksuit and hat thing was not what I expect from him at all TBH.

I didnt think there was anyone else as ugly as that anywhere let alone in Swindon and outside the CG :D

Maybe he's taken to employing a stunt double (make your own rhyming slang jokes)

Do it!

Good stuff Delta...Lady Wills' royal box  :)   Good user name there.

It did get a bit heated back then with posters like Maverick blaming poor away performances on the presence of orange in the away end.

Samdy, if you are serious I can get large amounts of the stuff printed for a small amount of cash.

Wasn't Maverick a councillor?

He was a former Marlborough town councillor, if memory serves. Nice bloke, still see him around, usually at away games and he always stops for a chat

I think in Marlborough...

Sounds like a line direct from Diamonds mouth...

You're comparing me to Diamandis? You fucking bopard.

That's a great idea!

Full judgement can be read at the link below :-

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2011/84.html (http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2011/84.html)

Nothing particularly new but an interesting read.

Nice to see Baghdad Bob and Ms Forgetful inadvertently had a small hand in supporting the appeal.

Does paragraph 33 suggest that while Diamandis didn't provide indisputable evidence the company owed him cash, the the matter could still go to trial?

Did you really manage to read that?  If so I'm impressed.

Couldn't we get Dunwoody to print it................ and then not pay the invoice

Nah, just tell them to print a bit more and keep the change.

I see Diamond Mike couldn't be bothered about sending any lawyers, or he hadn't paid the bill, and I see that it was mentioned in point 18 about his disqualification, and the money owing was in the holding company's accounts, which were wound up by AA.

Not in this case. This case arose because Diamandis applied for a Winding up order against the club on the grounds that they'd not paid him money he claimed was owed to him. But for such an order to be granted, the debt must be undisputed. Hence the club applied to have the petition for the Winding Up Order dismissed (as the debt was not beyond dispute). That application was initially rejected by the original judge in the summer and this hearing was the club appealing against that rejection. In this hearing the judges upheld the club's appeal, i.e. agreed that any alleged debt was very far from beyond dispute, and hence the Winding Up petition was effectively dismissed. So the ruling means that the debt is not proved beyond dispute, but it does not mean at least some of it is not owed, although equally it does not mean that it is. The core question seems to be not whether Diamandis is owed money, but

a) how much of what he is claiming he is actually owed
b) who owes it to him - the club, the old holding co or the Wills family.

This judgement casts doubt on his full claims in a) and makes it much more likely that the club is in the clear on b).

I think

So I assume that this is still in dispute then and it is only the decision that there can be no WUP levied against the club - so Micky the Greek has to find a way to prove who owes him the money and try and claim it, am I reading it right ?