Recent content by Ecolludiod

Me too.

Sorry Melu, I'm with Lou Roll on this. You seem to arguing for low expectations. Are you really? Why should we have low expectations of public health provision. Low expectations in hospitals, as in schools, lead to declining quality of service. Less becomes normal. Our expectations of the...

Interesting post. Thanks Mel.

Manufacturing generators and owning a football may well have lots in common. Or not. They are no doubt excellent businessmen in their sphere of expertise and they may prove astute club owners but it doesn't look great at the moment. Of course, it may be that what's best for them and what's best...

No. I'm saying that having the dosh is proof of nothing in itself.

IMO your last assertion is a bit rash. Prior to his demise, Gadaffi was worth an estimated $200 billion. Given a few minutes we could all probably come up with a few other examples of unearned or undeserved wealth. Even I've got a few quid in my post office account and I'm a complete wazzock.

I agree that running a club like a business isn't wrong. I think it's vital, unless it's run as a vanity project (Chelsea, Man City...). But there's more than one way to run a business. An extreme, but oddly legal approach is the MG Rover/Phoenix Partners model which emphasises telling the...

I'm usually irritatingly sceptical about the motives of very wealthy men, but I had just about fallen for the Allam's story - "putting something back etc...". It seems that may have been wishful thinking. As Bryan Robson sadly made clear on last summer's Dispatches programme on club ownership...