Meat is slavery – Bolton chairman in bizarre attack on Forest Green’s Dale Vince

Bolton chairman Ken Anderson has launched a bizarre and personal attack on Forest Green Rovers and its chairman Dale Vince on the club website. His response comes after Vince accused Bolton of failing to pay Dodige’s wages under the terms of a loan deal.

Anderson began by denying that the league had imposed a transfer embargo on his club and went to on to promised that they would pay the money once the EFL distribution monies.

Then he started on Vince, already a high profile chairman because of his decision to serve vegan only food at the Gloucestershire club’s matches.

“As regards Dale l can only say that during my several telephone discussions with him, l have found him to probably be one of the strangest people that l have ever come across in football – and in my 20 plus years in the game, l have met hundreds of players, managers , directors and club owners, so that’s saying something!”

Among the personal attacks on Vince, a well known vegan, Anderson wrote:

“When the chairman of Carlisle United, Andrew Jenkins, refused to try some vegan food on offer at FGR’s New Lawn in January last year, Vince responded by making the following bizarre statement:

“How many years will it be before we all look at families that made their living or fortune in the meat trade – in the same way that we now look at families that did the same in the slave trade. Not long [in my opinion].”

The Welsh striker had signed a loan deal at the Lancashire club in the summer and was expected to sign a permanent deal upon its expiration.

But Vince has claimed that his Bolton counterpart, Anderson, refused to stay true to the agreement and has breached a contract between the two sides, which includes failing to pay Doidge for several months, as Forest Green picked up the bill. Vince has expressed his intentions to pursue legal advice on this serious breach of contract.

Doidge is now back at Forest Green.

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