ThePrinter wrote:No the sport of football hasn't struggled and clearly no one said that.
Some football clubs clearly have though and you know it but are too stubborn to admit it because it shows the flaw in your argument that successful businessmen wouldn't mess up at a sports club just because they've been successful elsewhere.
If you look at the football clubs that have failed they are ones that were run by directors who have never been successful businessmen in their own right.
The majority of soccer clubs that go bust are small clubs that cannot generate sufficient income to support the operation.
Peter Risdale was a personnel consultant as an example he should not have anywhere near running a football club/business of that size - kid and sweet shop come to mind
Peter Hood/Chris Caisley - neither were serious business people - Hood didn't have a pot to wee in - the whole point of raising all the money was to get Hood out of the personal mess he had got himself into.
Maurice was a bookmaker with delusions of grandeur not a serious businessman that had generated significant personal wealth
Alf Davies wasn't a businessman, Harry Jepson was a school teacher and Dennis Greenwood inherited what ever money he had - hardly a threesome to move the club forward
To suggest the likes of Caddick, McManus, Moran, Lenneghan, Guash, Glover, O'Connor could not be trusted if the cap were removed is bonkers in my view
