Dave Whelan - Wigan Chairman

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Dave Whelan touches marsupials in unpleasant places. And whilst he's right, he's still a nosey, bitter, nasty, horrible old CUNT whose death I will actively celebrate.

 

But at least he has said something people with much more influence are declining to do.

[JohnnyH]

At least he said something. Don't see many of our "legends" coming out in the press like that.

[rebel23]

Whelan on LFC:

 

SkySports Video Player (v09)

[Newport]

He has to spoil it. He is the one that said he wouldn't have a foreign manager. He does know his isn't called Robert Martins, doesn't he?

 

Dave Whelan 05/04/09:

"We've got the best managers in the world here - English, Welsh, Irish and Scots. I'd never entertain a foreign manager for Wigan, and I don't think it's right that England have a foreign manager either.

 

"We are the home of football, for God's sake. I can't believe that we need foreign managers.

 

Dave Whelan 11/06/09:

Wigan Athletic has confirmed that Roberto Martinez will be appointed as the club’s new manager.

 

 

An official announcement is not expected until Wednesday, but chairman Dave Whelan told Sky Sports news Tuesday that the deal is done.

 

“I’m very excited about securing the services of Roberto Martinez,” Whelan said. “I hold him in the highest regard.

[G Richards]

If I'm being really critical he could have said this in a slightly different way, but the main thing is he is a person in the game of a certain profile who is quoted on SSN telling it like it is. Our owners have ripped the heart out of the place and that is a fact.

 

So, well said Dave Whelan.

[Redexile]

If I'm being really critical he could have said this in a slightly different way, but the main thing is he is a person in the game of a certain profile who is quoted on SSN telling it like it is. Our owners have ripped the heart out of the place and that is a fact.

 

So, well said Dave Whelan.

 

Spot on rev.

[razor]

Amendment: "Liverpool have great supporters. Some of whom want me dead."

 

Personally, despite his attention-seeking pronouncements, I really like him. And I really like what he said.

[Guest LFD]

Seems Rafa has 'hit' back at these comments:

 

Rafael Benitez hits back at Wigan chief Dave Whelan

 

Rafael Benitez has said Wigan chairman Dave Whelan should concentrate on his own club rather than worry about what is going on at Liverpool.

 

Whelan claimed the Reds were in a "mess" following Wigan's 1-0 victory over Benitez's side on Monday.

 

Whelan said: "Liverpool are in a mess. The owners, being American, I don't think they feel what we [fans] feel."

 

Reds manager Benitez hit back: "I do not talk about Wigan. He [Whelan] should talk about his own club."

 

Whelan also admitted he felt sorry for Liverpool fans after Hugo Rodallega's volley consigned them to a seventh league defeat away from Anfield this season, and their ninth loss in total.

 

"The big sympathy I have is for the Liverpool supporters because they are a fantastic lot," Whelan added.

 

"I'm really, really sorry for their supporters. We went to Anfield earlier in the season and there was absolutely no atmosphere and no heart at all.

 

"The supporters feel that and I think the players are starting to feel it."

 

Monday's result left Liverpool in sixth place in the Premier League table, one point behind Tottenham and Manchester City who have one and two games in hand respectively over the Reds.

 

Aston Villa, who are three points behind Liverpool, have three games in hand as the race for fourth spot, and a place in next season's European Champions League, gathers pace.

 

Benitez was highly critical of his side's performance at the DW Stadium, accusing them of lacking attitude and character.

 

But the Spaniard has little time to dwell on the defeat with the Reds travelling to France to take on Lille in the Europa League on Thursday.

 

"Hopefully there will be a reaction in Lille," said Benitez. "This is an opportunity to put things right and try to get a good result.

 

"In football you sometimes prefer to rest but at this time it is good to have a match quickly after what happened at Wigan."

[john23liverpool]

I don't like Dave Whelan, he is like fucking rent-a-quote at times, half of what he says he contradicts later on. This doesn't mean he is always wrong though. If you come out with enough big mouthed opinions then some of them are right.

 

Anybody in the public eye slagging off our owners and feeling sorry for our "fantastic" fans is alright in my book.

 

More the merrier.

[Red Mist]

He's a complete cock but props to Whelan for saying something. How many highish profile figures in football have come forward to condemn the yanks? Think I can count the number on one hand.

[KinskiRage]

He's a fairly high profile person slagging off the American Owners and the mess the club is in.

 

I just wish more people would be vocal on the subject.

 

"He [Whelan] should talk about his own club." - Rafa

 

But it's okay for Rafa to snidely slag off other teams style of play. He just doesn't see the massive hypocrisy.

[Red Mist]

Rafa should keep quiet. Why is he having a go at Whelan? Loyalty to his paymasters perhaps? The same idiots that wanted to sack him in favour of Klinsmann? If you have nothing to say that will help to rid us off the yanks then shut up Rafa and let the anti-yanks speak freely.

[PaulMcC]

I think he might've been defending the fans. I don't see him as defending the Yanks. He said he's having to run us like a business the other week, not sure the Yanks would've liked that.

 

Whelan said we have no atmosphere at Anfield now.

[Faustus]

I just wish Rafa would keep it shut at times. There's no need to respond to Whelan's comments there.

[Antynwa]

Fucks sake Rafa

[Carradona]

Rafa said that Whelan should talk about his own club and not other clubs. Hypocrite.

[Lucky Pierre]

He would be a hypocrite if he told Martinez or Allardyce to.

[straight_red]

I'm not sure Whelan is the kind of person you want on your side in any battle...

 

He's also wrong that American owners are a bad thing per se. Just look at Randy Learner down at Villa. He doesn't seem to have any problems understanding things...

 

 

Overall, probably not helpful comments from DW.

[Carradona]

He would be a hypocrite if he told Martinez or Allardyce to.

 

You don't think it is in any way hypocritical that Rafa tells someone to stop talking about his team, yet he did it about someone else's team only last week?

[Lucky Pierre]

You don't think it is in any way hypocritical that Rafa tells someone to stop talking about his team, yet he did it about someone else's team only last week?

Not really. He's a manager. That's what goes on. Whelan's a chairman. He should stick to giving out free tickets with an away shirt.

[Carradona]

You need to read a dictionary, Cris.

[Ted]

Not really. He's a manager. That's what goes on. Whelan's a chairman. He should stick to giving out free tickets with an away shirt.

 

This was a chairman talking about chairmen.

[Jack the Sipper]

You don't think it is in any way hypocritical that Rafa tells someone to stop talking about his team, yet he did it about someone else's team only last week?

 

Ithink there's a difference between a chairman of one club talking about the owners and atmosphere of another club, and a manager of one club talking about the playing style of another club. If Rafa had been talking about the ownership situation at Blackburn, then that would be hypocrisy.

Besides, I don't see what else Rafa could've said really. He was obviously asked about Whelan's comments, and telling the reporter that he agrees that the Yanks (his employers, the people who gave him a five year contract last summer) are destroying the club wasn't really on the cards was it.

[Lucky Pierre]

This was a chairman talking about chairmen.

And fans.

[The Party Boy]

Dave Whelan touches marsupials in unpleasant places. And whilst he's right, he's still a nosey, bitter, nasty, horrible old CUNT whose death I will actively celebrate.

 

Jesus, I know that he's not everyone's cup of tea but I must have missed something he did to get that level of hate?!?