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All I can say is that I'm impressed that you think a couple of million is of no consequence. You must have an awful lot more money than Dick Knight had.

As I said, much begging and borrowing had to be done. As somebody wrote at the time, if you lived in Dyke Road and saw Dick Knight in your front garden you'd hide behind the sofa. Directors such as Ray Bloom and Derek Chapman helped plus various benefactors such as FBS. But the greatest...

You say Dick Knight ran Brighton with the financial backing of Tony Bloom but as I recall the latter's (generous and welcome) money didn't appear until around the time the stadium battle had been won. Prior to that the club had been run on a shoestring, with DK putting in what money he could...

Sorry, but this is a bit daft. To make the kind of money Tony Bloom has needs skill and business acumen. Dick Knight operated in an area where the potential rewards were not as vast but building up an advertising agency from scratch and then selling it for millions of pounds - he blew a lot of...