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Saddam's lawyer bids for Shels!!
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Pity we wouldn't be playing you!blu_sonic wrote:i bet he and ollie would be great mates!!
get him in, if for nothing else just for the chants we'd come up with
Only jokin, you seem to be on the way back up (whatever way promotion works this year).
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THE audacious bid by convicted fraudster Giovanni di Stefano to buy Shelbourne Football Club is already dead in the water.
A proposed meeting tomorrow between Mr di Stefano, who claims to be Saddam Hussein's legal adviser, and the chairman of Shelbourne FC Ollie Byrne is now unlikely to take place, sources close to the club have told the Sunday Independent.
There appears to be little enthusiasm from the chairman, the club board or from the fans for Mr di Stefano to become involved in the Eircom league club.
"It's just not a runner. The club and the chairman will not meet him tomorrow and it is unlikely there will be any meetings in the future," the source said.
It is understood that the public pronouncement by the Italian lawyer that he intended to bid for the club was made even before the chairman was aware of his interest.
This was regarded as a fundamental breach of trust by senior figures at the club while further inquiries about Mr di Stefano's chequered past did little to convince Shelbourne's principal of his bona fides.
Di Stefano has already attracted headlines for claiming to represent some of the most notorious people in the world including Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, serial killer Dr Harold Shipman and convicted criminals John Gilligan and Patrick 'Dutchy' Holland.
In 1986, di Stefano was convicted for his involvement in a stg£25m fraud following a78-day trial at London's OldBailey.
He was also convicted of acquiring a large number of video tapes by deception. Though born in Italy, di Stefano moved to England when he was a child.
Sentencing him to five years in prison, the trial judge concluded that di Stefano was "one of nature's fraudsters . . . a swindler without scruple or conscience".
He lost a subsequent 1987 appeal but says he won a second appeal in 1988 and was released from prison.
Di Stefano also made a bold attempt to buy the MGM film studio in the US but the bid failed. One executive of the film firm described the bid as the stuff of Alice in Wonderland.
Publicity stunt maybe?
(Taken from the Sunday Indo)0
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