Charlie Methven has got his club back
Just when Sunderland fans thought they had their club “back”, their hated former CEO Charlie Methven popped up in the stands at the Stadium of Light.
It turns out Methers and his pals are still very much the majority owners of the club, despite previously suggesting they’d sold most of their shares and handed control to 25-year-old billionaire Kyril Louis-Dreyfus.
Personally, we’re delighted at the return of a character who provided so much comic relief in the Sunderland ‘Til I Die Netflix documentary.
In the very first episode, with the club in financial and footballing crisis, Methven hauled his direct reports into his office to discuss the pre-match music, which he wanted to be “like a massive rave, a bit like Ibiza”.
Asked about his personal philosophy, he replied: “Fearlessly ‘going for it’ – in life, in business, and sport – begets precisely the positivity and desire required to be a winner.”
As Private Eye wrote last year: “Given that he is a Brylcreemed, permatanned, Thatcher-worshipping Old Etonian Hooray, Wearsiders were not expected to make Charlie their darling”.
But even by those standards, Methven did his absolute best to piss off the Mackems, telling them they “lacked the understanding of business” that “people in the south” had, because there were “less entrepreneurs” up North.
Welcome back!
