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This is the guy that tried to buy Manchester United with no money and incredibly was almost successful and was seen kicking a ball around on the Old Trafford pitch. All he seems to have done at Carlisle is go out of his way to prevent football being played. He arrived in a blaze of glory promising Premiership football but has seen his club come within seconds of losing league status.
The supporters group CCUIST is apparently getting up his nose and he has said that if they continue he will close the club down and has called on the non-confrontational fans to stand side by side with him. In a wonderful gesture they have, all 200 of them.
Mr. Knighton is delighted with their support but I suspect 200 people backing him next season is likely to take the club nowhere other than where he has threatened to take it. Michael Knighton is without doubt someone who should have no involvement with football and the sooner he and his family are gone from the game the better it will be.
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This week though he has surpassed himself by sacking manager Terry Burton. On the surface it looks as though Burton has done a good job and pushed them towards a play off place despite having to constantly raise money through the transfer market. Only recently he had to sell Kevin Cooper to Wolves.
You would think he would be happy with Burton but the manager upset him twice last week. Firstly he spoke out and commended the supporters on the way they had conducted themselves and agreed with them that they needed their own home and it should be local. That was mistake number one. Burton then played a player in the last match of the season that Koppel did not want to play and that was mistake number two. The player in question was Peter Hawkins who qualified for an extra bonus for playing in the game.
That was too much for Koppel and Burton was sacked this week. Who will come in next is difficult to see given the current situation at Wimbledon. Maybe he will find another Scandinavian with wellies to run it for him.
Finally to third place and as much as we tried we could not find another chairman with the initial K who could qualify this week and so we have turned out attentions to a goalkeeper.
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So what does this clown do, he gets himself sent off after 42 seconds for deliberately handling the ball. We couldn't even point the finger at the inept Paul Alcock for waving the red card, he had no real option as Dibble completely lost it right at the beginning of the game. They were left to play just about all the game with ten men including a rookie goalkeeper and eventually conceded the two goals that Norwich needed to pip us for the last play off place.
Even Carlton Palmer chose to have a go at him and in a major headline on his club's official web site this week described Dibble as UNPROFESSIONAL. That is what we have been trying to tell you about Stockport Carlton. That wasn't it though and Palmer has now got rid of Dibble and given him a free transfer.
That is it for this week and yet another chairman winning the award and when we launched the award we thought the weekly battle to win it would be between players and managers.
Who will be the winner in Week 28 though? That is up to you. Just send us your NOMINATIONS by midnight next Thursday and all will be revealed next Friday morning.
The winners so far:
Week 1 – Glenn Roeder (West Ham United manager)
Week 2 – Chris Morgan (Oldham Athletic chairman)
Week 3 – Neil Warnock (Sheffield United manager)
Week 4 – Bryan Richardson (Coventry City chairman)
Week 5 – Doug Ellis (Aston Villa chairman)
Week 6 – Christian Negouai (Manchester City)
Week 7 – Geoffrey Richmond (Bradford City chairman)
Week 8 – Mark Lawrenson (BBC Claptrapper)
Week 9 – Canvey Island FC (Greedy non league outfit)
Week 10 – John Brandwood (Referee)
Week 11 – Lucien Mettomo (Manchester City)
Week 12 – Sam Hammam (Cardiff City chairman)
Week 13 – Danny Tiatto (Manchester City)
Week 14 – Jeff Bonser (Walsall owner)
Week 15 – Jamie Carragher (Liverpool)
Week 16 – Jason Roberts (West Bromwich Albion)
Week 17 – John Brandwood (Referee)
Week 18 – Graeme Souness (Blackburn Rovers manager)
Week 19 – Jack Straw (Foreign Secretary)
Week 20 – Andy Cole (Blackburn Rovers)
Week 21 – Carlton Palmer (Unprofessionals manager)
Week 22 – Neil Warnock (Sheffield United manager)
Week 23 – Carlton and Granada (Television companies)
Week 24 – Barry Knight (Referee)
Week 25 – Pedro Duscher (Deportivo la Coruna)
Week 26 – Paul Scally (Gillingham chairman)
Week 27 – Michael Knighton (Carlisle United chairman)