Mmm, I've noted your flag waving of Mr Silver (quite rightly) & certainly back in 1992 Leeds Utd were a football club with an industrious team harnessed together under Wilko, which 4 years later sparked Caspians interest (who bought us) when we were floated.
They said they wanted Leeds to "form the cornerstone of their strategy to create one of Europe's leading sports, leisure & media groups".
For me the words "group" or part of a group (above) still don't resonate even today after several owners because of the local disentachment elements missing at Boardroom level.
But regardless, i personally know fans that'll be at Wembley of ages 7 to 70 still supporting the club & team - some of whom still yearning for those Civic old school duty core values of Mr Silver.
As a 9 year old my first trip to Wembley in '96 ended with Villa stuffing us 3-0 & i hope the 49'ers can revisit that year & try even harder to get more locals on the actual Board to further enlighten what the team actually means to its city like back in '96.
But ultimately the likes of Mr Silver back then, who were all for selling-up clubs by being floated on the Stock Exchange, were also moving away the valued ethical "football club" element of those businesses into the hands of cold calculating holding companies which is a question rightly or wrongly to be looked at too, surely when flag waving owners virtues back in the day ?
For me in essence, English football was being monetised even then via greedy-eyes only focused on the then 1997 PL Tv deal which then was worth £670m over 4 years which later then jumped into £1billion by 2001.
So was English football transformed for the better back then lke now - as in my eyes all financial opportunity scenarios of "He Who Dares" often attracts many £'s selling & buying & Mr Silver by his own humble admission knew when to buy, sell & move on did he not.
Possibly, Tony Bloom the Brighton owner is a model of how a club should be run nowadays?
Dunno how many philanthropy folks the city of Leeds has nowadays but they sure aint looking to join the 49ers yet even if they've been hunting them out.
Just saying.
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