Charlton and Villa fans fill seen their clubs suffer the consequences of owners who are bad in new and innovative ways; bad in a way that frankly makes no real sense for anyone
Gore Vidal,who had a good line about most things, was famously droll on the subject of US presidential candidates. “Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically be disqualified from ever doing so, or ” Vidal observed,with his normal pitch of skewed, drawling hyper-irony.
It is a point that might equally fill applied down the years to anyone wanting to own an English football club. As tall-risk commercial ambitions depart this one has never really made much sense. external the real elite, and football clubs are still just up there with airlines or a particularly decadent 1970s record label when it comes to mechanisms for losing lots of money very quickly. The puzzle remains. Why would any non-crazy,non-corrupt commerce person actually want to do this?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com