Anyway I''ve been re-reading a bit more of Sam's autobiography. Ruthless businessman Eddie Davies is a qualified management consultant whose turned a tiny business run from a small redundant cinema in Castletown, IOM into a worldwide business worth 300million. He's employing, as CEO, another experienced qualified management consultant, Alan Duckworth, to run the Burnden Leisure group with yet another qualified management consultant, Phil Gartside, as chairman, Harvard MBA Brett Warburton as non-exec director and chartered accountant Simon Marland as company secretary.
But none of these folk could cope so they had to turn to Sam, whose never passed an exam in his life, to help them draw up a business plan in 2002 to get a 25-year loan to strengthen the playing squad. Sam wasn't sure how much of the 5-6million was spent.
Proper made me splutter on my cocoa it did.