It may have escaped your notice, but tomorrow we have yet another election in the UK.
It’s tiresome and although we’re sure plenty of people feel very passionately about it, we don’t. Not on this site, a sports site. That’s because a sport site should be about sport. Politics and sport shouldn’t really be mixed.
It’s like your club’s official account should always try to remain as impartial as they can. Even clubs who have people on the board with very strong political leanings stay neutral. Your club needs fans and each and every fan has a different opinion. Imagine, if you were a staunch Labour supporter and your club starting talking about Tories. How would you feel? Football clubs don’t get involved in politics and rightly so.
Until now.
Andy Pilley is a hero in Fleetwood, helping push them from the depths of the non-league scene to the League One promotion places. They’re a relatively small town club with big ambitions but that could all come to an end if Labour is elected. Why? Because if Jeremy Corbyn becomes our next Prime Minister, Pilley is pulling his investment from Fleetwood. How has he communicated this? Not through his personal channels, but through his official club media.
He’s surely crossed a line and set his club up as a Tory club. We’re not fussed either way, we do football, not politics, but by giving Fleetwood a Tory identity he has set them up for abuse, making them stand for something perhaps the fans and players are not willing to stand for.
Fans have been reacting to his recent actions on Twitter and it is fair to say his attempts at influencing voters in the area have flopped, badly.
Honestly lads, I know he signs your payslips but just stop posting now.
— Cal (@Cleags) December 11, 2019
Not sure this is remotely a good idea
Mind you, its exactly what i’d expect a Tory with a lot of money to do if he didn’t get his own way.
— Rich (@Pibasedlifeform) December 11, 2019
— Babs – Vote Labour (@_BabsJ) December 11, 2019
Are you really trying to hold your fan’s vote to ransom? Wow.
— UP THE MARINERS! (@UTM_Mariners) December 11, 2019
Disgusting.. sport and politics shouldn’t be mixed in THIS manner
People of Fleet… you know what’s right!
— TheBigRezowski (@PaulRezon) December 11, 2019
What does your Chairman have to say about the 4 1/2 million children in the UK living in poverty because of the Tories punitive austerity policies? As long as he is alright, the less fortunate can suffer.
— Rorston Toddles (@rory_rt) December 11, 2019
Wow, this is cretinous. My new most hated club
— Phil.I.P (@PhilMCTyke) December 11, 2019
This is gonna backfire.
Stupid call.— Pongo #Alex (Jen called you) Boris (@Pigpenned) December 11, 2019
