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Stumping up

Mr Jan Yeo

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Saw this on PASOTI and couldn't be arsed to create an account to reply, but thought it raised an interesting issue.

http://www.pasoti.co.uk/talk/viewtopic.php?t=48845

Why do so many football fans feel that owners/directors should just bail out a club? A bloke at my work was talking about someone involved in Wolves (I think) who had put up about £60million of his own money and then said that he would give no more. Apparently fans turned on him, spat at him and generally treated him like sh*t. Considering how much of this blokes own money he had put in I fail to see why the fans thought that they could reasonably expect more. IIRC a similar story developed at Newcastle.
 

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And at Aston Villa with "Deadly" - he put in squillions yet was always accused of not putting his hands in his pockets.
 

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It pretty much sums up what is fundamentally wrong with football. Was having this conversation with a Bolton fan in work the other day, if every club lived with in its means, then you wouldn't see crisis club after crisis club. However a big part of the problem is the disparity in the money at top in the prem and lower down - if you are running a Championship club there is a very large incentive to gamble on promotion, because of the guaranteed TV rights and parachute payments from just one year at the top level.
 
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