Echo today at 1200
MARK Fry has admitted he is satisfied that Michael Fialka DOES have the money to complete a takeover.
The administrator said he had seen the Echo’s exclusive story yesterday regarding Fialka’s background and his companies’ financial positions.
“I have seen stories myself and clearly they are very a cursory look into the background of the individual concerned,” he said.
“As far as I am aware that individual is from a substantially wealthy family.
“There are other people surrounding that individual that are also involved in the Pinnacle Group.
“It is referred to as the group because that’s what it is.
When I was at school we used to stand by the left hand post at the Milton Road end, right behind the wall. I was a budding goalkeeper then. One match Ken Jones hit a volley which came straight at me. I assumed the position and caught the ball in my midriff in textbook style. To my great surprise this knocked the wind right out of me and sent me backwards into the people standing behind me. Lying totally winded and gasping for air I remember Ken looking over the wall and saying impatiently - 'Give us the ball son'.
I wore those bruises with pride to school on Monday morning.
Tony Book (I think) smashing the ball off the line for Man city at the Milton Road end, only for it to hit Terry Paine on the back of the head, knocking him flat and looping back into the net.
If so, it will be interesting to see if the FL actually do or say anything before then. Apart from way back at the beginning of this saga there has been a defeaning silence.
Like all sports governing bodies, they write the rules on their hand, and you 'talk to the hand' - no eye contact is made and their ears are surgically removed.:smt093