Beer's the latest mug, sorry, businessman to put money into the annually ailing Terras; some £300,000 pounds all told, and if that wasn't enough he doesn't want anything for his money - as he told the Dorset Echo:
“I do not want to go on the board and I am not interested in sitting in the directors’ box. I just want to help the club get back on its feet.
“I will come into the club now and again, and go to matches but I have also got a business to look after and want to spend time with my family.
“I do not want to be the owner of Weymouth FC, I just want to be a supporter that has paid extra for his season ticket."
Sounds almost too be good to be true, doesn't it? Most of the debts wiped out and the club able to start again, try to stay up this season and sort out a sustainable budget in the summer whatever league they're in, thus safeguarding the club's future.... Although it's since emerged that the gift is in fact a loan, which presumably will have to be repaid at some point. Added to which stories have also begun spreading that Mr Beer's been a very good Torquay United fan in the past, before Weymouth won his affections. Oh, and a Plymouth Argyle fan. And is being chased for money owed by businesses in South Devon, his usual stomping ground. And was a guest of Dorchester Town's owner, Eddie Mitchell, at a recent game. Let's hope the beer doesn't turn flat.
All deadly serious for the Muffers of course, and one can't help feeling sorry for them, but not that sorry. At least it's distracting me from our own on-going farce. Being a YTFC fan at the moment is like being in a train crash - you know it's happening around you and everything seems to be in slow-motion, almost dream-like, but you just know that the BUMP is coming. Games are coming and then going, disappointing result follows disappointing result and with 2 points out of the last 15 and only 3 points off the relegation zone with 12 games to go... we, ladies and gentlemen, are in the shit.
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