RESTLESS Alexander Skarsgård is one of many Hammarby fans suffering from the chaos in the club.
Outside the board meeting, hundreds of protesting fans.
Inside, the Hammarby team captain wonders what is going on in his club.
From Hollywood roars in a vampire.
Linus Hallenius has been sold, taken back and sold again. A chairman and a CEO have resigned.
5,000 miles from Stockholm a world celebrity has become pissed. A celebrity who is chairman of the mini-organization Bajen Pigs Hollywood.
Alexander Skarsgård writes in an open letter that he himself had been called in several years ago and the Board was “like the neighborhood drunk has not even passed the ninth grade.”
But that now it is worse.
“Today it is easier to get really pissed off. The internal fighting and individuals with vested interests succeed each other while Hammarby is torn apart before our eyes,” he writes, and encourages all Hammarby fans to join and influence the stormy Club.
The full letter:
I know, it’s not about cancer. Or anti-whaling in Japan. But anyone who has ever been to South Stadium and seen 15,000 fans stand up and sing “Just today, I am strong” understands that a world without Hammarby Football would be a little bit poorer.
At least some of us understand.
Throughout my childhood Söderstadion and Bajen were my heel and a home. It could be a messy and sometimes heated atmosphere in the stands, but it was always welcome, and I experienced a community that to this day I have not found anywhere else. When we went home disappointed over Skanstullsbron we always put an arm around each others shoulders and rattled “we’ll take them next time” (this was in the early 90’s, light years before the national championship and premier league rankings).
The Hammarby board is often subjected to the mockery of our supporters. They were like the neighborhood drunk who had not even passed the ninth grade, and were sworn often at restaurants around Medis after yet another disappointing season. But it was hard to be really pissed. They were, after all, Bajare. They tried.
Today it is easier to get really pissed off. The internal fighting and individuals with vested interests succeed while Hammarby is torn apart before our eyes.
I have two humble requests to all Hammarby around the country.
The first: Let’s promise each other never to let anyone on the Hammarby board that has a different agenda than the welfare of Hammarby Football. And if someone should slip in who sees an opportunity to personally grab a slice of the pie, he should be asked to immediately leave the club by 15,000 polite fans.
Second: Join in Hammarby Football.If you are not a member, you can not go to meetings, or vote. This means, in my eyes, that you are also deprived of the right to sit in restaurants around the Medis and swear that the club is mismanaged.
Of course we need to have a competent board that knows how to run a business. Preferably people who have passed ninth grade. But I want to see board members who understand that Hammarby is slightly more than one company. I don’t have friend who has AstraZeneca tattooed on his chest or named his son for Stora Enso. Unfortunately, there seems to be forces in today’s Board of Directors who do not understand it. Or maybe they just do not care about it.
Ultras, boys, Christmas trees and oil coats …
It is we who are Hammarby.
/ / Alexander Skarsgård
Source: Aftonbladet
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