It’s a good job he didn’t invest in the club then like a couple of posters suggested.

With these revelations about Manni Hussain and penny appeal, and the recent departure from a very lucrative position as council leader, I wonder if the former Council leader is now trying to keep a low profile from some of his previous Council dealings.

Someone once said that behind every successful business, there's a crime; it seems to be true.

I will hold my hand up Wilzay, I think I was one of those you mentioned.

I merely mentioned it back in 2016, when I think MC said around then, that he was always looking at the potential of further investors coming on board, or something like that.

At the time, looking at the 88m Group website, they seemed to have a massive portfolio, covering several industries, and the only thing he didn't have was a pro sports club.

With this, and with the newslink about making so much money before the age of 30, seemed quite a legit possibility.

How wrong I was

It was That great sage BLM about 2 pages ago, Bren.

Hang em all

you'd be out of a job

And I won’t lose any sleep over that one Snowie mi owd mucker

Just say you won it at the casino

Funny how people see things differently. When I first started checking him out; his website, social media, companies house, the first thing that came into my head was another other young, Leeds based property developer, who wormed his way into a directorship at Leeds United - Simon Morris. And we all know what happened there.

It surprises me that anyone at Trinity falls for the ‘white knight’ thing anymore. In my time alone we’ve had spearman, Glover and France, not a great list is it.

I don’t know MC and I don’t know how much of his own cash he’s pumped in, a fair bit I suspect. However that’s not what sets him apart. After a shaky start where some hard decision were made his success at Wakefield has been terrific and imo long lasting.

It’s been a mixture of hard work, tightness and truly astute management. This is not a love letter and there are things I would do differently (though not many tbh) but nobody can deny the massive upturn in the club in recent years.

The only thing missing now is luck and the success that usually heralds. He and we deserve it but unfortunately that’s out of all our hands.

Even without lick and trophies I’d still rather be a steady outfit than go back to the bad old days, the ones usually presided over by the Mannies of this world.

Nice post Fishermanscap you summed it up well

Sadly not - I think Honoré de Balzac beat him to it, by about 200 years.

Correct bren, Dunkirk Spirit told me cos they knocked about together

I was his mentor, stick with me kid,you’ll not go far wrong,

Penny Appeal bought Thornes Park College Campus from Wakefield College, which is independent of WMDC.

Penny Appeal was formed and run by an entrepreneurial former college student, who the college are very proud of.

I have no background knowledge of the Penny Appeal nor Thornes Park College. I would comment that once the digging starts you have no idea, how deep or wide it goes nor who gets dragged into, many fine and upstanding individuals have been well regarded in the business world but shown, not to be that fine nor upstanding. We all know Wakefield's 'not so good and not so great' fine chaps at the outset but oh dear......

is this another one that will have her wealth checked as she now resides in London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51128950

is this another one that will have her wealth checked as she now resides in London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51128950

Maybe I missed a chance when I ignored that retired Nigerian government official

Having known someone who worked at PA, they had questionable ethics towards their staff. Not a place I would want anyone I knew working there.

I took Prince Augustus Mtumbo of Nigeria up on his offer, and true to his word, he gave me 10% of the 89 million dollar fortune he wanted to wire to the USA, via my bank account, after his whole family were wiped out in a terrible plane crash. I now live in mortgage free bliss, and use twenty pound notes as post-it notes.

Do those letters still do the rounds or is it all telephone and internet scams ?

The main ones these days are tech support scammers based in India.

Quote ="wrencat1873"Do those letters still do the rounds or is it all telephone and internet scams ?'" I haven't seen a Nigerian Prince email for years. The last scam email I received was one from someone masquerading as PayPal security saying I needed to follow a link and re-enter all my details for them to verify my account. At first glance it looked genuine, but it only took a few seconds of closer inspection to see that it was riddled with spelling mistakes, and the email it came from was something like security.paypal@mail.com

Quote ="wrencat1873"Do those letters still do the rounds or is it all telephone and internet scams ?'" I haven't seen a Nigerian Prince email for years. The last scam email I received was one from someone masquerading as PayPal security saying I needed to follow a link and re-enter all my details for them to verify my account. At first glance it looked genuine, but it only took a few seconds of closer inspection to see that it was riddled with spelling mistakes, and the email it came from was something like security.paypal@mail.com