Two days ago the website Football365 published a scurrilous attack on J4MB, in an obvious bid to create controversy and pressurise Birmingham City FC into cancelling the contract to host the 2018 conference. The attack is here. The comments stream has been lively ever since. We’ve had plenty of supportive comments from luminaries including Paul Elam, Tom Golden, Robert Brockway, Guttorm Grundt, Nick Langford, Karen Straughan, Alison Tieman, Belinda Brown, Natty Kadifa, Elizabeth Hobson… you might like to check the comments stream and note the high number of upvotes for their comments, and the low number for the comments left by our critics.
Within hours of the publication of the piece, and without contacting us beforehand, a director of Birmingham City FC decided to terminate the contract, and emailed me to that effect. He appeared to be suffering from the delusion that the club could cancel the contract. I worked in the field of procurement – buying goods and services – for 25 years, and the contract for the hosting of ICMI18 couldn’t be clearer. There are no grounds on which the club can unilaterally terminate the contract. The club is undoubtedly in breach of contract. They are trying to get round this issue by claiming that I misrepresented J4MB to them, which is simply untrue. We shall be taking legal advice on the matter, but as things stand, we expect the club to honour its contractual commitments. I sent a polite but robust email to the club’s director, but have yet to receive a response.
Things moved on almost an hour ago, with the publication of a piece in the online edition of the Birmingham Mail, following my very brief conversation with the journalist behind the piece, Danny Hussain. It contains a carefully edited video (1:06) with extracts from the video (18:13) in which I take viewers round the areas we’ve hired for the conference. It even contains an old blurred photograph of myself, while I could have sent them a hi-res new one in moments, if asked. It’s all to do with trying to create a jarring impression on people who read the piece, I suppose.
So, where does this leave us?
It’s time to draw a line in the sand.
It’s time to demonstrate that feminists are continuing to lose control of gender narratives.
95%+ of the supporters of Birmingham City FC are men and boys, and the conference is about issues affecting men and boys.
We shall be hosting ICMI18 in St Andrew’s Stadium.
Justice for Men & Boys 
This is an absolutely shocking and unacceptable turn of events. I’m stunned. Speechless.
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Keep at them, Mike.
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What a completely biased and twisted piece by the Birmingham Mail. The only thing I can say is that this is all down to fear of the truth, and this sort of prejudice against an honest and worthy cause is a truth that will undoubtedly become mainstream one day. That day I believe is not far away now. Moves such as this will only serve to highlight the hypocrisy in the future. Keep at it Mike, and thank you for all of this.
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Their ideology can’t survive scrutiny. Their stuff gets shot down all the time by logic, science, objectivity, common sense, and reality. But like children, they must have their way and if it takes tantrums, so be it. We are not to noticed these tantrums, cuz that would be “hatred.” So, they therefore must silence us before we spread this truth to all the world. (We still will.) I believe most all men know this truth already but would rather lie by omission and outright, if it takes it, to do whatever gets women (to like them). This might have been money-driven (PR) but one can’t convince me that it isn’t also driven by men’s egos and, well—orgasms.
So who is manipulating women to keep them exactly where they are…under control?
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Notable that Danny and the Birmingham Mail won’t allow comments on their “article” whereas other articles on the site allow commenting (unless they concern legal cases etc).
I guess they’re concerned that many readers would use their freedom of speech to let everyone know the truth bout gender equality.
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Yes. I noticed that. Dirty trick. The keyboard warrior within me was most disappointed.
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They are not the only ones. The Guardian (not writing about this matter as far as I know) won’t allow comments on articles regarding the recent abuse allegations. That way they get to control the narrative. I’m not the only one who wants to point out that these allegations are unproven and that an accusation in itself cannot be regarded as fact.
It’s up to men to resist toxic feminism in all it’s forms.
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It looks like the customers win again! Men, I am speaking of. Average men are customers. Wouldn’t want a man to not be a customer too. Must buy women with behavior, else not a real man.
Mike, if it turns out that Birmingham has crapped on men and boys so they can please women, a boycott of Birm. FC should ensue.
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Whatever else, Mike, it shows you are working in the right direction and the feminists are very scared of the message you are taking to the country. Unfortunately, as they have no argument, they employ no-platforming and intimidation instead.
Most people still think feminism is about equal pay and the right to vote; as feminists continue to gain the upper hand, their beliefs and methods will become more apparent and there will eventually be a backlash, no ideology lasts forever.
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I saw this coming, I’m afraid.
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Keep up the good work Mike. This is a sure sign that progress is being made.
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Imagine if Birmingham city banned a lesbian man hating feminist mob meeting !
They would not dare to , what hypocrites and cowards they are, i will stop going to their matches and will burn my season ticket
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