Excellent article. For interest one day, I pulled out the PL table for the first season. While Spurs hasn't achieved much as a club trophy wise, we're still there. Some of those other clubs have been through the wringer and are lucky to still be in existence. I think many have forgotten or never experienced how amateurish the set up at Spurs was, from a business pov, under Scholar and even under Sugar.
So while I have lots to criticise ENIC for, it's possible to imagine us with a rusting stadium looking forward to welcoming Oxford Utd in a League One fixture.
Football is so far removed from its roots now and I don't think swopping one billionaire for another would change the direction of travel of the game.
As usual, Martin, intelligent, lucid and articulate. Very well written and argued. Of course, as you acknowledge the simple way to remove a club's owners would be to buy their shares. The simple way to remove the Board of Directors would be to own enough shares to seek their replacement at an AGM.
On a side-note, Alan Sugar sold most of his shareholding because of physical and verbal harassment of himself and his family, albeit at a capital gain (only an irrational fool would sell at a loss).
Keep these articles coming. I, for one, find them to be better than much of what passes for sports journalism.
An excellent article, far removed from the majority of ill informed diatribe being peddled by others.
Factually, the period from 1921 to 1950 would be the longest fallow period.
Excellent article. For interest one day, I pulled out the PL table for the first season. While Spurs hasn't achieved much as a club trophy wise, we're still there. Some of those other clubs have been through the wringer and are lucky to still be in existence. I think many have forgotten or never experienced how amateurish the set up at Spurs was, from a business pov, under Scholar and even under Sugar.
So while I have lots to criticise ENIC for, it's possible to imagine us with a rusting stadium looking forward to welcoming Oxford Utd in a League One fixture.
Football is so far removed from its roots now and I don't think swopping one billionaire for another would change the direction of travel of the game.
As usual, Martin, intelligent, lucid and articulate. Very well written and argued. Of course, as you acknowledge the simple way to remove a club's owners would be to buy their shares. The simple way to remove the Board of Directors would be to own enough shares to seek their replacement at an AGM.
On a side-note, Alan Sugar sold most of his shareholding because of physical and verbal harassment of himself and his family, albeit at a capital gain (only an irrational fool would sell at a loss).
Keep these articles coming. I, for one, find them to be better than much of what passes for sports journalism.