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Given the detective track record on here, I assume the police are aware that posting a photo-fit of the suspect will result in a positive ID and conviction within hours?

 

Mind you there are top experts on here and we could see a few big names (Like Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse etc) having their faces super imposed (is that the right wording) and that could mislead the police for some considerable time or not.

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Mods:

 

Please issue a statement disassociating the forum and its members from this threat to MW.

 

Please also issue infractions to forum contributors who see this as an opportunity to make tastless jokes.

 

Death threats are no laughing matter, and I do not wish to be associated with some of the juvenile comments made.

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Mods:

 

Please issue a statement disassociating the forum and its members from this threat to MW.

 

Please also issue infractions to forum contributors who see this as an opportunity to make tastless jokes.

 

Death threats are no laughing matter, and I do not wish to be associated with some of the juvenile comments made.

 

 

Why? If they did that I would take it as a personal insult. It goes without saying.

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Mods:

 

Please issue a statement disassociating the forum and its members from this threat to MW.

 

Please also issue infractions to forum contributors who see this as an opportunity to make tastless jokes.

 

Death threats are no laughing matter, and I do not wish to be associated with some of the juvenile comments made.

 

Get a grip.

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Mods:

 

Please issue a statement disassociating the forum and its members from this threat to MW.

 

Please also issue infractions to forum contributors who see this as an opportunity to make tastless jokes.

 

Death threats are no laughing matter, and I do not wish to be associated with some of the juvenile comments made.

 

I think eelpie did it and wants the mod to make the statement to take the heat off himself. Sneaky.

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I agree, I think it is a very big co-incidence that this is in the same week. Very clever ploy if it is.

 

Of course, if it isn't, it is despicable.

 

It's just some nutter who would never carry out the threat IMHO. No-body wants Wilde dead, we just don't want him at our club.

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[admin edit]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4084428.Death_threat_sent_to_Saints_chairman/

[/admin edit, sorry]

 

Above from the Echo

 

The block was thrown through his house in Jersey the same day the email was sent from Southampton, may not be connected.

Edited by stevegrant
Sorry, had requests from the Echo to replace the text with a link to the article (copyright reasons), which has been updated
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The chilling message was sent anonymously via email to a newspaper in Jersey, where 56-year-old Mr Wilde has a home with his family.

It is believed to have warned Mr Wilde he would be killed if he continued to turn up at Saints matches.

On the same day, a granite block was hurled through the window of the house which he has lived in since moving to the island in 2005.

The inquiry is being run by Southampton’s Football Intelligence Unit after officers in Jersey passed it on.

It is understood the email has been traced to a property in Southampton and investigations are now focused there.

The threat to kill football board chairman Mr Wilde, who also has a mansion in the New Forest, is the latest in a line of criminal incidents in which he has been targeted.

They come after the businessman returned to the helm of Southampton Football Club to share power with Rupert Lowe last summer.

The first happened in May 2008 when glue was put in the locks of his company’s office in Winchester.

Staff were unable to get in or out of the building and a note was left at the scene that read ‘Wilde out’.

The second happened in the early hours of October 19, the day after Saints’ 3-0 home defeat to Watford – a game in which Saints missed two penalties.

Mr Wilde’s home in the New Forest was then targeted by vandals, who reversed a 4x4 vehicle into the gates of the house, smashing them open, before driving off.

 

Above from the Echo

 

The block was thrown through his house in Jersey the same day the email was sent from Southampton, may not be connected.

 

I'm sorry and apologies if I offend anyone but that did make me lol.

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Hang on a minute you sarcastic ****, someone earlier was saying the two acts were by the same person, Im pointing out that they may not be connected. So chill out.

For one, I thought that was from The Echo.

 

For two, oooh get her.

 

For three, peace.

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Really?

 

Exactly. I'd be highly surprised if someone went to the extreme effort and expense of flying to Jersey to lob a rock through his window. I'd say it's more likely he has enemies on the island or it's just a random attack by teenagers.

 

The 4x4 incident sounds more like an abandoned burglary.

 

The glueing of the locks appears to be SFC related if a note was left though.

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Exactly. I'd be highly surprised if someone went to the extreme effort and expense of flying to Jersey to lob a rock through his window. I'd say it's more likely he has enemies on the island or it's just a random attack by teenagers.

 

The 4x4 incident sounds more like an abandoned burglary.

 

The glueing of the locks appears to be SFC related if a note was left though.

 

Also the most amusing of the three.

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Really?

 

Hang on a minute you sarcastic ****, someone earlier was saying the two acts were by the same person, Im pointing out that they may not be connected. So chill out.

 

Yeah Ponty chill out...that "really?" comment certainly portrayed how uptight you were getting...

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I find it hilarious that Wilde is making such a big deal about the inevitable aftermath of his treacherous neglect of Saints (dont condone it but what must he & Lowe expect - holidaying while the club crumbles?!) while Crouch shareholders were regularly receiving death threats while bully boy Hone was in charge! You didn't see them kicking up a stink as they probably realised they were hollow threats, futile, they had more guts & probably didn't have to endure a huge rally, protesting against their sheer incompetency! Get over it. People want you & Lowe out, the protest is for a reason! PR & spin won't work!!

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The chilling message was sent anonymously via email to a newspaper in Jersey, where 56-year-old Mr Wilde has a home with his family.

It is believed to have warned Mr Wilde he would be killed if he continued to turn up at Saints matches.

On the same day, a granite block was hurled through the window of the house which he has lived in since moving to the island in 2005.

The inquiry is being run by Southampton’s Football Intelligence Unit after officers in Jersey passed it on.

It is understood the email has been traced to a property in Southampton and investigations are now focused there.

The threat to kill football board chairman Mr Wilde, who also has a mansion in the [/url]New Forest, is the latest in a line of criminal incidents in which he has been targeted.

They come after the businessman returned to the helm of Southampton Football Club to share power with Rupert Lowe last summer.

The first happened in May 2008 when glue was put in the locks of his company’s office in Winchester.

Staff were unable to get in or out of the building and a note was left at the scene that read ‘Wilde out’.

The second happened in the early hours of October 19, the day after Saints’ 3-0 home defeat to Watford – a game in which Saints missed two penalties.

Mr Wilde’s home in the New Forest was then targeted by vandals, who reversed a 4x4 vehicle into the gates of the house, smashing them open, before driving off.

 

Above from the Echo

 

The block was thrown through his house in Jersey the same day the email was sent from Southampton, may not be connected.

 

What load of phish. Probably be some fifteen year old. More likely an excuse to walk away from the club and to discredit protesters.

 

I was told the glued locks was an inside job at his company

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Only if you provide the satsuma and the stockings.

 

This comment just sums up the protesters (or as I call them attention-seeking whingers) as far as I am concerned.

 

Here we go again. One stupid, idiotic remark which could very well have been said tongue in cheek and someone slags the rest of us off. You obviously don't care that our club is nose diving in an ever increasing haste. Look out salisbury we are soon going to be playing you on a more regular base. ( hopefully just a jest)

I do not condone violence but you think everyone going to protest is a moronic drink or drug fuelled yob. What about my 5 yo boy is he tarnished with the same brush? Wake up or shut up. Too many times if someone says something different we have to have a squabble on here. Done within certain boundaries this can be highly entertaining.

As far as I am concerned I am going to the march to tell anyone who wants to listen how I feel about my club. I certainly won't be at the front of the column and I fervently pray this march goes ahead without trouble. I for one want Askham, Wilde and Lowe to get out and sell up. We don't expect this march to achieve much more than alert others to our aims. This in itself could solidify our position simply because we have been noticed thereby increasing our numbers for whatever we do next.

None of us knows where this will take us but some of us have grown tired of empty promises and falling standards. We hope to gather support where we can. A few names from the recent past have spoken about the club's plight but we sit and watch doing nothing do we? Not anymore.

In house squabbling is not going to help our cause or yours. That is of course, if you would still like to see our team win a game now and then. And as for the threat made by Ponty well that is so childish it is beyond comprehension. Making such a ridiculous post leaves him wide open for lots of nasty comments if it were intended as a threat.

Personally I would simply have asked for it's removal. Not have risen to the bait.

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This all soooooo sounds like spin doctoring by Lowe's infamous PR crew, to try and discredit fans in the lead up to the protest march. I mean it's a helluva coincidence that this all crops up two days before the big event. Lowe and Wilde's track record of treating fans with utter contempt makes it hard to believe anything either say.

 

Obviously death threats (if real) are a very serious matter and I personally wish no harm on Wilde...... but I suspect the proverbial "knife in the back" may turn out to be a more realistic problem for the aforementioned, but rarely seen, chairman of our beloved football club.

 

BTW good luck to all the marchers. Be loud and proud (oh hell that sounds like a gay parade... well you all know what I meant!).

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Fans can be such *****s sometimes. No wonder people stay away from investing.

 

what a c#ck you are for trying to link the two.

 

I don't always agree with Adrian but that was a valid point.

 

Sadly, some cretin has just lopped off a big chunk of the moral high ground the fans were standing on. Not fair but that's how it goes.

 

And the police probably have a different attitude to the protest now.

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I wouldn't think so. I'd expect many of the officers to be Saints fans and as such agree with the protest.

 

Stanley, I don't think they have much choice, whether they sympathize or not.

 

They'll move from a "watch and see" brief to a "keep this tightly under control" brief, all because of a nutter.

 

And the news of the threat to Wilde is hardly going to swell the numbers, is it?

 

What a fricking mess.

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I think Wilde should have read Alan Sugar's biography, particularly this part:

 

 

"In 1991, Sugar along with Terry Venables bought Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

Sugar's relationship with Venables turned acrimonous and court battle ensures. Alan Sugar stated that his time spent at Spurs was a "waste of my life".

In 2001, after several death threats towards him and his family, Sugar sold most of his shares to ENIC Sports Ltd, represented by Daniel Levy - effectively the current chairman of the club."

 

It was all bound to end in tears. The nature of football, I'm afraid.

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I find it hilarious that Wilde is making such a big deal about the inevitable aftermath of his treacherous neglect of Saints (dont condone it but what must he & Lowe expect - holidaying while the club crumbles?!) while Crouch shareholders were regularly receiving death threats while bully boy Hone was in charge! You didn't see them kicking up a stink as they probably realised they were hollow threats, futile, they had more guts & probably didn't have to endure a huge rally, protesting against their sheer incompetency! Get over it. People want you & Lowe out, the protest is for a reason! PR & spin won't work!!

 

this has got to be the most moronic post I have ever seen on here.

 

I have no problem with the gallows humour etc, but to genuinely think death threats and two attacks on his family home is hilarious -you must be some kind of immature idiot.

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Has anyone realised that this news has come out nearly a week after the event? I used to live in Southampton and i knew what was happening before the victim did! (mind you my father was a detective in the new forest) I also lived in Guernsey for a few years and know that this kind of news would be across the island in hours along with the story about Mrs Bloggs turning her white washing blue!! Believe me this would be big news in the Channel islands!

 

I smell a rat!

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What load of phish. Probably be some fifteen year old. More likely an excuse to walk away from the club and to discredit protesters.

 

I was told the glued locks was an inside job at his company

Now that would have been amusing. "right, that's them all done. ok let's make a run for it. oh b0llocks"
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