I have read somewhere on this forum that Roland Duchatelet believes he is a latter day Alan Turing. Well, Roland, Alan Turing was a homosexual who endured chemical castration before committing suicide. Good luck with that.
Turing was a genius whose wartime work at Bletchley Park saved the lives of thousands. Duchatelet is no genius who has blighted the lives of thousands.
I think Duchatelet compared himself to Turing because he believes he is a visionary that is not understood at his time. Duchatelet genuinely believes that we will thank him in 30 years time, we are just too stupid to understand what he is doing at the moment.
There was a translated interview in Trust news I believe, not really just about football, where from memory Roland dismisses at a stroke fans on message boards, and reckons Turing was (like him) a misunderstood genius, and that he has been telling the wider world stuff for years but (sigh) they (the wider world) never listen. This is from memory, perhaps some kind soul can link it up.
The interview does not talk about football, and was done by Douglas a belgian journalist who has interviewed RD before.
Turing was without doubt a 'visionary' , and to the shame of the british government his role and contribution to the enigma code breaker,in the war was for too long overlooked by the establishment because of his sexual lifestyle.
I think it best to describe him as a 'tortured soul' and people should remember that in those days homosexuality was illegal. As it happens one of my former editors at the bbc a radio 3 producer at the time, and activist had interviewed the man himself on a series for radio three called 'machines with minds', My fellow editor died a few years ago, but I do recall him mentioning him, in the 1980s when the work at Bletchley was not fully acknowledged. Frankly I found RD's connection to Turin as rather bizarre. Perhaps he was trying to tell people something.......!
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He was also very difficult to get rid of!
This is from memory, perhaps some kind soul can link it up.
http://www.castrust.org/news/newsletters/
The interview does not talk about football, and was done by Douglas a belgian journalist who has interviewed RD before.
Turing was without doubt a 'visionary' , and to the shame of the british government his role and contribution to the enigma code breaker,in the war was for too long overlooked by the establishment because of his sexual lifestyle.
I think it best to describe him as a 'tortured soul' and people should remember that in those days homosexuality was illegal. As it happens one of my former editors at the bbc a radio 3 producer at the time, and activist had interviewed the man himself on a series for radio three called 'machines with minds', My fellow editor died a few years ago, but I do recall him mentioning him, in the 1980s when the work at Bletchley was not fully acknowledged. Frankly I found RD's connection to Turin as rather bizarre. Perhaps he was trying to tell people something.......!
I think this 'claim' just about sums Roland up. Deluded!
Either that or he's smoking something that's a tad too strong for him.
Now thats a visionary.
I can't fecking see five billion years hence, Roland you have us all 'trumped'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48962557