| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? 14:35 - Mar 29 with 2095 views | Steve_M |
They have put out a rather extraordinary statement:
http://stainestownfootballclub.co.uk/urgent-club-statement/
"Staines Town Football Club (STFC) regrets to announce that pursuant to third party breaches of Section 54 of The Modern Slavery Act 2015 and other information that has come to light, we are forced to temporarily suspend all primary operations including but not limited to competitive fixtures, until a thorough investigation into the practices of Downing LLP has been concluded by the relevant authorities."
The webpage may hit capacity as it's gone viral but do read it, I won't post the text beyond the first paragraph as, although the statement has clearly seen legal review it's probably not ideal for Phil & Gav to post here in full.
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:47 - Mar 29 with 1994 views | abracaDOBRA_ |
yeah looks like the page has crashed! |  | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:48 - Mar 29 with 1987 views | Illinoisblue |
Was just reading that and still thinking WTF have I just read about a non league football team. |  |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:49 - Mar 29 with 1977 views | Illinoisblue |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:47 - Mar 29 by abracaDOBRA_ |
yeah looks like the page has crashed! |
They’re saying they’ve been hacked | |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:51 - Mar 29 with 1948 views | clive_baker |
I was just on Ullaa's thread, but I think that's Stains town. [Post edited 29 Mar 2022 14:51]
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:03 - Mar 29 with 1847 views | homer_123 |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:48 - Mar 29 by Illinoisblue |
Was just reading that and still thinking WTF have I just read about a non league football team. |
It's not them but their owners/ investors though. |  |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:07 - Mar 29 with 1822 views | homer_123 |
Again though....Saudi money appears to be OK in the game. | |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:18 - Mar 29 with 1727 views | Illinoisblue |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:03 - Mar 29 by homer_123 |
It's not them but their owners/ investors though. |
Splitting hairs there, homer. | |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:20 - Mar 29 with 1713 views | homer_123 |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:18 - Mar 29 by Illinoisblue |
Splitting hairs there, homer. |
Not at all. Staines are basically calling out the FA etc about the fact their owners are wrong uns. | |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:25 - Mar 29 with 1664 views | Illinoisblue |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:20 - Mar 29 by homer_123 |
Not at all. Staines are basically calling out the FA etc about the fact their owners are wrong uns. |
Well quite, I didn’t think it was the actual footy team themselves who were money laundering and up to other misdeeds.
Anyhoo, another reminder of the murky world of football owners. | |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:42 - Mar 29 with 1566 views | XYZ |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:25 - Mar 29 by Illinoisblue |
Well quite, I didn’t think it was the actual footy team themselves who were money laundering and up to other misdeeds.
Anyhoo, another reminder of the murky world of football owners. |
I'm not sure they're the owners - my reading of it is that they're the landlord - i.e. they own the ground not the FC.
Trying to force the FC out so they can develop the site. |  | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 16:28 - Mar 29 with 1386 views | stonojnr |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 14:49 - Mar 29 by Illinoisblue |
They’re saying they’ve been hacked |
I doubt they have, but with enough viral traffic hitting their site, their web hoster will have identified the sudden increase of volume as a potential denial of service (DOS) attack, not a Staines have just published a statement thats suddenly trending on twitter, and thought it was an attempt to flood their routers/servers with traffic to cause a memory leak/error that might open a backdoor through their security and so just shut it down. DOS attacks are a form of hacking, so Im sure Staines rang their web provider and asked whats happening to their website, and web provider responded well its an automatic shutdown response to potential hacker threat...
anyway theres plenty of copies of the statement floating around on
twitter etc now. | | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:08 - Mar 29 with 1168 views | Pendejo |
Ali G always thought him a wrong un, but he's behind it all
Seriously WTF! |  |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:23 - Mar 29 with 1100 views | HighgateBlue |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:42 - Mar 29 by XYZ |
I'm not sure they're the owners - my reading of it is that they're the landlord - i.e. they own the ground not the FC.
Trying to force the FC out so they can develop the site. |
I'm not on top of this at all - why would modern slavery by a landlord prevent a tenant from using the leased ground for the purpose for which it is let? |  | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:29 - Mar 29 with 1080 views | Swansea_Blue |
Well done Staines Town. Cripes, that’s quite a statement.
It sounds like they REALLY wanted to get that off their chest “ STFC will not go back to Wheatsheaf Park and play beneath the bloodied shadow of the profits of slavery, child abuse and all else. It simply will not be tolerated and is offensive and unacceptable in every form. Everyone associated with such practices must be stopped in their tracks and brought to book with urgency. This needs to start with the enablers of such acts who appear to operate with complete impunity under our noses, here in the United Kingdom.”
I can’t say I’m overly surprised by the nature goings on and that FIFA are also implicated. |  |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:55 - Mar 29 with 1033 views | XYZ |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:23 - Mar 29 by HighgateBlue |
I'm not on top of this at all - why would modern slavery by a landlord prevent a tenant from using the leased ground for the purpose for which it is let? |
I'm no expert, but it hints about "supply chain" audits - maybe the landlord is caught by the definition of a "supplier".
Staines may be over-egging the legal analysis. | | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 19:02 - Mar 29 with 1000 views | NthQldITFC |
This is likely to leave indelible thingmies on their reputation. |  |
| # WE ARE STEALING THE FUTURE FROM OUR CHILDREN --- WE MUST CHANGE COURSE # | | Poll: | It's driving me nuts |
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| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 19:24 - Mar 29 with 920 views | gordon |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 15:42 - Mar 29 by XYZ |
I'm not sure they're the owners - my reading of it is that they're the landlord - i.e. they own the ground not the FC.
Trying to force the FC out so they can develop the site. |
Yes - the ground Staines Town play is owned by the alleged dodgy organisation that want to develop it - what Staines Town are doing is using the Modern Slavery Act legislation act to call out the dodgy organisation and get the FA to help protect the club.
It's extraordinarily brave, because the risk of doing something like this is that you spend the next ten years of your life defending yourself in court, spending an awful lot of money that you don't have. |  | | |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 19:27 - Mar 29 with 906 views | gordon |
| Have we covered Staines Town today yet? on 18:55 - Mar 29 by XYZ |
I'm no expert, but it hints about "supply chain" audits - maybe the landlord is caught by the definition of a "supplier".
Staines may be over-egging the legal analysis. |
Think it's quite clever by Staines - they're saying their landlord is part of the supply chain, and they have a responsibility to ensure there is no human slavery in their supply chain - that legislation is aimed at e.g. low price clothes shops, but will apply across the board. | | | |
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