It's not just the grant application that has backfired on FoSB, they have now had two bites at the same "Kassam bombshell email" cherry and no one has taken any notice. They also had the laughable attempt to support a charities application to use the Triangle site before that same charity quickly distanced themselves from such nonsense.
We have then had the computer images of what they thought a stadium would look like and the constant portrayal of football supporters as all being mindless thugs.
Their support has fallen off sharply since the summer and McIvor, Campbell and Middleton the fact that they're being ignored by all but a handful of followers. They love the attention that comes with these campaigns, the Radio Oxford interviews, the bits on South Today, the columns in the Oxford Mail. They all feed their tragic little egos and make them the star in some daytime soap opera. Meanwhile, 99% of those who's attention they seek have absolutely no idea who they are!
For the best part of 2 years I have been talking to various councillors from all parties about this stadium project. Not one has a good word to say about our Mr Middleton, and a couple have spoken about his fall from grace since his tweets were exposed. His reputation is damaged and his position has been hugely weakened by all of this. And once planning is finally approved, they will all go off to find a new campaign to get angry about.
The communication from the club and the project team has been rubbish at times, but the one thing they did get right us to not engage in the games FoSB and others have played and to let them destroy their own campaign themselves.
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