ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
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ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
News from 1998 regarding the takeover of the club
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https://www.uptheclarets.com/shackleton ... eover-deal
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https://www.uptheclarets.com/shackleton ... eover-deal
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Re: ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
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The guy was just an attention seeking pillock.
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Has he ever been seen since or was he never really a Burnley fan?
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Re: ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
Apparently he was a fan, if a totally deluded one. He passed away in 2009scouseclaret wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:08 pmHas he ever been seen since or was he never really a Burnley fan?
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/s ... s-aged-59/
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Re: ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
I know someone who worked with him at a school in Colne, some years before all this, and he'd never shown any interest in football at all.
I did once see him at a game at St Mary's against Southampton but apart from when he was acting like the big I am at Wigan, it was the only time I ever saw him.
I did once see him at a game at St Mary's against Southampton but apart from when he was acting like the big I am at Wigan, it was the only time I ever saw him.
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It's one of those things which I guess we'll never really know. What was the actual truth behind the whole episode?? I'd absolutely love to know what REALLY went on, but with Shackleton passing away in 2009 as mentioned above, I assume that's never going to happen unfortunately.
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Re: ARTICLE: Shackleton flies out to push through the takeover deal
I bet he was lead on by a consortium of chancers from abroad and he installed himself as the front man. Eventually they went cold on the idea but he wouldn’t let it go keeping the perceived interest going in the press and eventually travelled to France for last minute talks.
… either that or he was completely deluded.
… either that or he was completely deluded.
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That is the correct answer
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I've met loads of people like this in my work life.
People who genuinely believe they are successful businessmen, movie producers, actors and musicians.
They come to my humble video production company promising me a profit share in their vanity project that will make us both millions - as if I'm the key holder to their dreams.
I'm sat in meetings with them, and I'm wondering if they are a full shilling. One time I had a man tell me he wanted to make four feature films with me and he’ll get the money from rich people he has written to… and that he is another son of Prince Charles hidden from the press with a metal plate in his head to stop him from remembering his childhood… but it doesn't work.
I still get the occasional long rambling email from him, cc’ed in with hundreds of other local business people, politicians and journalists.
When you read articles about odd takeover bids, such as the ‘billionaire’ who claimed he owned an airline (I think he wanted Sheffield United) - it makes you realise these people are out there and they walk amongst us.
People who genuinely believe they are successful businessmen, movie producers, actors and musicians.
They come to my humble video production company promising me a profit share in their vanity project that will make us both millions - as if I'm the key holder to their dreams.
I'm sat in meetings with them, and I'm wondering if they are a full shilling. One time I had a man tell me he wanted to make four feature films with me and he’ll get the money from rich people he has written to… and that he is another son of Prince Charles hidden from the press with a metal plate in his head to stop him from remembering his childhood… but it doesn't work.
I still get the occasional long rambling email from him, cc’ed in with hundreds of other local business people, politicians and journalists.
When you read articles about odd takeover bids, such as the ‘billionaire’ who claimed he owned an airline (I think he wanted Sheffield United) - it makes you realise these people are out there and they walk amongst us.
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We'll never know what it was but Shackleton was not a Burnley fan at all and was either a fantasist or was fronting for some very dodgy people. He was a schoolteacher who got a bit above his station but Teasdale loved him for a long time because he thought it would enable him to keep his power.
When he turned up at the CISA meeting in April 1998, he was basically laughed out of the place.
When he turned up at the CISA meeting in April 1998, he was basically laughed out of the place.
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And still no statue of Barry, the man who provided the funds to re-ignite the Club. Without him there would not have been the bunch of local business men including Garlick who got us from league one to (coming up) 24 years in the top two Divisions, 9 in this league.
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That school/academy he was involved with building and launching in the early 90s was funded and fronted by some seriously rich people (Martin Landau and Sir Rocco Forte to name the two who gave their names to the project). Shackleton was the academic front man and first principle of the school (I believe) and maybe that involvement and relationship led Shackleton to believe those guys or others they knew were prepared to buy into Burnley with him as the front man. Ultimately those potential backers backed off leaving him looking like something of a clown. The school (in Derby) is actually still going strong I notice and is extremely highly regarded and hugely over subscribed.
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He'd taught at a school in Pendle previously and was a colleague of a really good friend of mine. During that time he showed no interest in Burnley Football Club or football in general.Dark Cloud wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:24 amThat school/academy he was involved with building and launching in the early 90s was funded and fronted by some seriously rich people (Martin Landau and Sir Rocco Forte to name the two who gave their names to the project). Shackleton was the academic front man and first principle of the school (I believe) and maybe that involvement and relationship led Shackleton to believe those guys or others they knew were prepared to buy into Burnley with him as the front man. Ultimately those potential backers backed off leaving him looking like something of a clown. The school (in Derby) is actually still going strong I notice and is extremely highly regarded and hugely over subscribed.
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A very odd period that highlighted our vulnerability to outside predators. We will never know what truth there was to any of the rhetoric, but he was talking about ridiculous amounts. I think we definitely dodged a bullet there.
I saw a sticker on a street lamp a while back saying, 'No to Shackleton'. I wonder how many people looked at that and wondered what the hell that was all about?
I saw a sticker on a street lamp a while back saying, 'No to Shackleton'. I wonder how many people looked at that and wondered what the hell that was all about?