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I am heartily sick of seeing football clubs with proud histories and loyal supporters get destroyed. It makes my blood boil. Not true in all cases of course and no doubt the majority are well intentioned but equally no doubt the minority of dodgy dealers are tarnishing the game. What are the football authorities doing to protect the game from these people? Surely they can monitor things more closely than they do and prevent abuses before they happen? It really is a scandal.

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Thank the lord we have a Tony Stewart at the helm and not a Cellino or Oyston. I really do sympathise with the fans of those clubs who can do no more than stand by until the whole sorry drama runs its course.

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Anton Johnson springs to mind, although as far as I am concerned I saw the most entertaining and successful football played by any Millers side in my lifetime, but we paid the price in the end, a price that perhaps the club is only now just getting over.

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I am not about to point any fingers because there are some litigious people out there. If there is a local man (or woman) made good who wants to live a dream and get involved then fantastic (and I have no reason to think that Tony Stewart is anything other than that). That seems to me to be almost a potentially expensive hobby, which is a rich man's prerogative. But otherwise I do have to wonder why anyone would want to get involved and pump finance into a business where as a rule on paper most of them seem to haemorrhage money. There are examples where this seems to end in a car crash for the club and for the fans.

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Look at Bolton, the owner is having to write off £175m of debt, so the club looks attractive to investors. thank our lucky stars we have TS.

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