Barnsley FC CEO Khaled El-Amman.

[Arblasterfromthepast]

That's the point I'm making Arbs. Let the overwhelming body of media, football and public opinion do the talking. It has far more weight than a CEO from the beaten club ranting about being "robbed" by the officials. A more experienced CEO would have said the standard, "I'm disappointed with some of the decisions" and then let others do the work of influencing change.
Let's face it, the FA/ EFL are not going to take any action on the referee and are more likely to act against us. As Jules has said the silence from those in authority is deafening. Not a word. When they are in the wrong the very least they should do is apologise. But we know that will not happen.
As I said before--Ahmad achieves short term kudos from fans for showing "passion" but could well bring possible medium term detriment to Barnsley FC

It's also the responsibility of a manager to stand up for his workers, a CEO to stand up for his company SB. He should be allowed to call out what he believes are 'wrongs' as Khaled has done in this case. I see nothing wrong with Khaled speaking his mind. Maybe it will come back to bite us to an extent but maybe he will also have support from other CEOs that isn't apparent to us. Interesting on the highlights show that all pundits said that they believed the two decisions were wrong (Dean Ashton, think it was Jobi McAnuff, Schumacher the Plymouth manager and one other I think). With such a level of agreement, from across the board, why shouldn't Khaled also voice his concerns? I know your concerns with this but I for one don't blame Khaled for standing up and being counted.

[Shadrack the Red]

It's also the responsibility of a manager to stand up for his workers, a CEO to stand up for his company SB. He should be allowed to call out what he believes are 'wrongs' as Khaled has done in this case. I see nothing wrong with Khaled speaking his mind. Maybe it will come back to bite us to an extent but maybe he will also have support from other CEOs that isn't apparent to us. Interesting on the highlights show that all pundits said that they believed the two decisions were wrong (Dean Ashton, think it was Jobi McAnuff, Schumacher the Plymouth manager and one other I think). With such a level of agreement, from across the board, why shouldn't Khaled also voice his concerns? I know your concerns with this but I for one don't blame Khaled for standing up and being counted.

I agree with what you have said , we all have a breaking point & maybe the microphone was shoved under his nose right at the point to activate is breaking point, doffing your cap to the establishment might keep us out of potential trouble but sometimes you just have to say it how you see it & hang the consequences & the guy just said what we were all thinking , I would rather have someone speaking straight john bull than sugar coating , I say well done Khaled you actually spoke on the behalf of the club & our fans .