Aside from not believing the latest news, the fact that there could well be an end to this ELEVEN year nightmare is something that is too difficult for me to grasp.
An eleven years that has ripped away, what I realise now, to be a blind support of something that is invisible in ambition.
An eleven years that has tested the loyalty theory of long standing attendees against the modern day sheep.
An eleven years that has done massive mental damage in how we analyse the way in which a club should be run with the invention and increase of social media bringing unfounded opinions into the greater domain. Many truths then being replaced by the average Joe with his followers or likes to then be a false gospel.
I class myself as an educated fan who, when I look back now, has made decisions that were done with just myself in mind. Personally speaking, when I have attended at any point of the Ashley era I look back now and see the damage it has caused because I hate most of our fanbase with a passion now.
The arguments Ive had on this forum or its many identities was that I believed it to be personal choice, in theory life's decisions are but in relation to fighting against an owner or regime there needed to be constant action of some form from the first day that misdemeanours were noticed with loyalty out of the window.
Aside from this ramble, there can be no argument against Ashley selling up or worrying that things can be worse because they can't. It's impossible.
The scenario is akin to being boiled alive in a cauldron but worrying that someone could save you with hidden intentions of what to do next. In fact it's bordering on insanity.
If the accounts are being looked at now then this is a false scenario based on money diverting tactics. What is written down in books or printed off on statements will surely be different under an ownership that wants to maximise turnover for whatever means. If that means they take a wage then so be it, the turnover has stayed almost stagnant for these eleven years so the year on year increase will cover it all.
A takeover won't solve every problem that Ashley has created but if it gets us back onto the road of some sort of blindness again then that's the job half done.
Aside from this, the whole situation has got me that disillusioned now that I largely ignore the day to day gossip that I once broke my neck to check out or write about on here and the latest takeover rumours are pretty meaningless to me with Ashley notorious for messing everyone around. I am resigned to this latest Sky outburst being a spoiling tactic to huff any interested parties at the last minute with this blowing over again by the end of January and subsequent time running out for decent new players.
I hope im wrong but until then, rinse and repeat. If anything happens then it's a bonus but if not then will anyone be left interested if we get a fifteen or twenty year anniversary, aside from the 'uneducated'?
That doesn't need answering as we already know.