100 Owners: Number 93 – Bill Hiddelston (Third Lanark)
There is a curious paradox at the heart of the dynamic of a football club which always seems likely to attract a certain type of undesirable to the game. In...
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100 Owners: Number 94 – Mazhar Majeed (Croydon Athletic)
It is very seldom that a non-league football club makes the headlines of a national newspaper for any reason other than a surprise result in the FA Cup, but at...
100 Owners: No.95 – Bob Lord (Burnley)
When we talk of the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers that ran our football clubs as their own fiefdoms for most of the twentieth century, there is perhaps one man...
100 Owners: Number 96 – (George Cripps &) Joseph Connor (Leeds City)
As those of you that have been keeping up to date with this series will already be aware, there was probably no golden age for football in England when the...
100 Owners: No.97 – Graham White (Colne Dynamoes)
We have, in recent years, become rather too accustomed to a boom and bust culture in football, particularly at clubs in the lower divisions. Few clubs, however, have ever boomed...
100 Owners: 98. Henry Norris (Arsenal)
The formative years of professional football in England were a turbulent time, a period in which the rules – both written and unwritten – which underpin our notions of how...
100 Owners: No.99 – Stan Flashman (Barnet)
There was always something inherently contradictory about Stan Flashman. He is, perhaps, best remembered as the “King Of The Touts” (often with the prefix “Self-Styled” attached to it), but when he...
100 Owners: No.100 – John Houlding (Everton & Liverpool)
There is a point of view held by some that the olden days were better and somehow purer than the world that we live in today. Considering the twenty-four saturation...