Andrew Fitton

[Reg Smeeton]

 Anybody on here make sloe gin....its about the time to do it.  The sloes are best after the first frost....its proper ace.   Let it stew for a couple of months then ready for the winter.....birds love it.

A guy at work did recently. I always thought it was some kind of strange fermentation of the sloes that made the alcohol. Apparently it isn't, get gin, add sloes, wait, voila, sloe gin.

  That's about it, you can add spices and so on but I've never bothered with that....you got to give it a bit of shake every so often. Oh and you put sugar in as well.

Sloe gin is both awesome and lethal. The strong taste of the sloes do a good job at hiding the alcoholic gin lethalness, making it much easier to drink than it probably should be.

 Which may be why birds like it....

[neville w]

Would he be a Fitton proper person under FL rules then ?

[Reg Smeeton]

Would he be a Fitton proper person under FL rules then ?

 I knew something had been missing from the TEF recently.

[Reeves for King]

My mate knows him. Apparently he's alright.

[Kinky Tom]

Time for you to get digging then RfK...

ps. what's happened to the 'fro - I noticed at Millwall it had disappeared?  This is an outrage...

[redbullzeye]

What an ace thread - Andrew Fitton, classical civilisation, sloe gin, Hungerford Town and afro's

[Kinky Tom]

It's got it all...

[Reeves for King]

It's growing back. Soon I'll be proper afro once more and will be able to ise an afro comb again.

[Kinky Tom]

I look forward to it...

[Dazzza]

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/display.var.1787228.0..php

Businessman Andrew Fitton has called on patience from Swindon Town's fans as a new consortium try and save the club.

The 50-year-old, who is president of Swedish based telecoms company Mobitex Technology and US company United Wirelss, revealed the Robins came to the new bidders after BEST Holdings' takeover collapsed last week.

Due diligence is taking place but Ramsbury based Fitton will not be making any promises about the completion of the deal.

"This club is in a mess and people need to give us time to evaluate the situation," he said.

"We have made an agreement subject to due diligence and early next week, when we see the findings, we will sit down and discuss it and hopefully the situation is what we thought it was.

"The club needs to be stabilised. I am not a secretive individual but I would expect someone to respect my business."

Fitton, who has also previously failed in a £3million bid to buy Newcastle United in 1988, was interested early this year before the doomed BEST bid failed and thought the deal would collapse.

"It wasn't a surprise to us, you just have a gut feeling, when the club called there was a rye smile in the office," he said.

"I've had three goes at this in 2002, 2004/05 and again in May and June this year.

"We will be approaching it differently because it is a different situation and this club needs saving."

Fitton, who declined to reveal the others involved with the consortium, has been an interested observer during the Best Holdings bid and also to the growing rift between the fans and the board.

"Football supporters believe they own the club, which is fair enough because they will be there long after the shareholders," he said.

"There is always a difficult relationship between fans, who own the heart and soul of the club, and the directors who own the fabric and the business.

"What the fans need to realise is someone is pumping money into the club to make their dreams come true.

"There needs to be a dialogue and there is not at the moment, but some of their actions are not acceptable."

Fitton, who says he is a football fan and not one of a particular club, has also thrown his support behind Robins boss Paul Sturrock, who takes his team to Port Vale on Saturday.

"He is one of the best managers outside of the Premiership and it is happening on the field for the club," he said.

"We are just trying to make sure it happens off the field but we need patience and understanding."

[Dazzza]

Must admit I'm warming to the man already.

[flammableBen]

That all sounds pretty reasonable. Well apart from actions not being acceptable but I presume that means those thugs who run the trust.

[Batch]

That all sounds pretty reasonable. Well apart from actions not being acceptable but I presume that means those thugs who run the trust.

Saving the club would be fantastic, long way to go just yet mind.

Ti's a bit off having a pop at the fans if he wants to repair the damage but hey ho. At least he says he wants to talk and at various points there has been fault on both sides. If he means what he says then great.

Encouraging noises about Sturrock and the team mind.

[STFC Village]

Certainly sounds like he isn't going in with the blinkers on about the finances, which is good news after the BEST debacle. Fingers crossed....

[pauld]

That all sounds pretty reasonable. Well apart from actions not being acceptable but I presume that means those thugs who run the trust.

I assumed he was talking about people not telling the truth at AGMs, running companies while disqualified, banning fans without good reason, withholding monies due from fellow Football League clubs, sacking well-respected Football Secretaries for no apparent good reason, falling out with investors at the drop of a hat etc etc etc. All of which it would be completely appropriate to describe as "some of their actions are not acceptable".

Have to agree it's good news about the apparent lack of blinkers - "the club is in a mess" is refreshingly straightforward after "the current back office team have done a fantastic job" etc