Archive for the ‘Football Finance’ Category

Why “lack of investment” is a blight on football

October 13th, 2011

You know what’s wrong with your club? Lack of investment, that’s what. The chairman, gawd bless ‘im, is well-intentioned and all. But he just doesn’t put in enough green these days, does he? All those other teams, the ones…Read More

Review: Dispatches – How To Buy A Football Club

July 19th, 2011

Ultimately it was what wasn’t said that was far more interesting that what was actually revealed by Channel 4′s Dispatches: How To Buy A Football Club on Monday night. Very little damning was actually proved, but reading between…Read More

The sudden threat to Supporters Direct’s future

June 13th, 2011

It is a grim irony that one of fan ownership’s greatest moments in football could, through no fault of its own, end up severely crippling the movement that helped create it. When then Supporters Direct Chief Executive Dave Boyle…Read More

Counting the cost of Plymouth Argyle’s administration

April 29th, 2011

Last week Plymouth Argyle’s administrators released their report on the financially stricken club along with a list of the club’s creditors. Gary Andrews has been wading through the figures and counting the cost to those owed money by the…Read More

Football is important, but we shouldn’t take it too seriously

March 11th, 2011

Do we take football too seriously? Chris Nee thinks so. From pub lounge discussions about the Premier League to the touchline at a school match, too many of us seem to have forgotten why most of us got involved…Read More

The Conservative party: The unlikely saviours of English football?

January 26th, 2011

With a new FA chairman and tough words from the Sports Minister, the time is ripe for serious reform in all aspects of football, writes Gary Andrews, and the champions of that reform could be as unlikely as they…Read More