Kids are wearing Albion shirts around town. Their friends want one. Their granny promises them they shall have one on their birthday. She's not going to schlep out to Falmer. Once the kid has the shirt, she'll want to start going to games. The income is starting to mount up.
It's a simple fact that Tony Bloom has vast experience of multi-million pound financial transactions and the resources to back big investment decisions up. What he didn't bring to the Amex Stadium project is any significant experience of running a customer-facing business, selling the sort of...
It's not clear what Paul Barber has in mind when he speaks of private arbitration. But here's the ACAS scheme:-
http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/i/b/arbitration_guide_1.pdf
Indeed. It's a very frequent occurrence for football clubs or football managers to want to terminate a contract early. They nearly always sit down and negotiate the terms of the departure, guided by what was agreed when the contract was signed. 'Gross misconduct' is a device that avoids this...