[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=37898.msg1013951#msg1013951 date=1260802311]
There is sugar and there is sugar.
I think he did. The top clubs made money out of football and were never really bank-rolled by the chairmen, they were proper clubs and not privately owned.
regards
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He's not the first one but obviously he's different in the respect that he actually seemed to go out shopping for a football club, as a personal accessory, and clearly wasn't even a massive football fan before. At least Jack Walker was a Blackburn fan, so noone really begrudged him doing a similar thing there.
There is sugar and there is sugar.
I think he did. The top clubs made money out of football and were never really bank-rolled by the chairmen, they were proper clubs and not privately owned.
regards
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He's not the first one but obviously he's different in the respect that he actually seemed to go out shopping for a football club, as a personal accessory, and clearly wasn't even a massive football fan before. At least Jack Walker was a Blackburn fan, so noone really begrudged him doing a similar thing there.