1.5 million on the hotel extension at the golf club.
1.5 million on the hotel extension at the golf club.
Good for him.
It's likely to provide a better return on the investment than ploughing the same amount of money into a lower league football club, that's for sure!
I've said it before on this message board, but it always amuses me when fans call for "investment" in their club. It's such nonsense, for all but the most successful Premier League clubs. If you put money into a lower league football club in this country and in most other leagues, the chances are you will never see (most of) it again. There's plenty of TV money in the football industry, but most of it is going out of the game in player wages. What fans are really asking for is a benefactor, not an investor. The best a club chairman can do to get (some of) their money back is to pay themselves a good wage.
How on earth do clubs like Accrington survive,let alone be successful.
They are doing incredibly well at the moment, but would you swap our long term future for theirs? Clubs like Crawley and Stevenage (currently both averaging under 2,600) have climbed out of non-league in recent years, got promoted into L1 and had a few decent seasons at that level but are now sinking back to a position more befitting of their history and gates. I expect Fleetwood will eventually end up in a similar position and no doubt Accrington as well.