‘Of course, clubs exist in a marketplace: they compete, they pay salaries, sign contracts. They’re not fluffy-bunny anarcho-syndicalist communes’
March 2nd, 2010
DAVE BOYLE is the chief executive of Supporters Direct, the organisation that works with supporters trusts at football clubs to help them buy shares and increase influence at their clubs. A former long-serving National Council Member of The Football Supporters' Federation, he supports AFC Wimbledon. He was also, rather marvelously, the advisor on football matters to series Three, Four and Five of the TV soap opera 'Footballers' Wives' . .. . By Dave Boyle 2 March 2010 So Portsmouth are in administration, in a serial dating relationship with the High Court, looking for their fifth owners of the season, and might as well have kissed goodbye...
