Tuesday 3 November 2020

Baggies Charity Mystery on The Liquidator Podcast

Several years ago I wrote about my concerns (as a Baggies fan) about the lack of contibution by WBA FC to "its charity partner" (whatever that means), The Albion Foundation. As ever the local mainstream media took no interest.

Recently I wrote about the facts that (a) the Club appears (again) to be giving bugger all to the Charity whilst giving a contrary impression and (b) that the Charity in the last two financial years say THEY actually bought OVER ONE MILLION QUIDS WORTH OF TICKETS FROM THE FOOTBALL CLUB using its charitable funds.


I omitted to say that in the last two financial years the Charity also say that it has diverted over £100k from its charitable funds to the Club for staff kit and tickets.

The Foundation have not responded to my blog. I have also written to the Premier League who have made substantial donations to the Charirty but they have also failed to respond as yet.

I am sure most Baggies fans are listeners to the excellent podcast on all things WBA - The Liquidator. This is run by probably the only decent investigative journalist in the West Midlands, Adrian Goldberg (on Twitter at @GoldbergRadio), and author, lecturer and all-round good-guy Chris Lepkowski (tweeting as,er, @chrislepkowski.) There are a number of ways to listen to the excellent regular podcasts including via Spotify.


In the latest episode - linked below - there is an erudite but depressing post mortem on last night's debacle at Craven Cottage but at 26:35 minutes into the cast this matter is discussed. Adrian states that he has been in communication with the Club but, guess what, they too have failed to respond to legitimate questions.


WE NEED SOME ANSWERS ON THIS AND I WILL NOW ALSO CONTACT THE CHARITY COMMISSION.

Just on a point of order, Adrian mentions on the podcast that he thinks the Charity has offices at The Hawthorns. I commented on this some years ago in the Jeremy Peace era when an official of the Albion Foundation (who wishes to remain anonymous) contacted me to say that the Charity had been "kicked out" of their offices by the Football Club and forced to rent at Ford Street, Smethwick - where they still reside paying a hefty £72,192 property costs per annum from charitable funds according to their latest accounts.

And finally,

We are used to the pathetic boasting (aka lying?) of bent Labour Sandwell Council and its weirdo self-publicicist "Director of Public Health" but as we all suffer another lockdown let us not forget what these pathetic t*ssers told us in August:



Stay safe y'all.

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