Interesting article, I'd forgotten about the text vote for a substitution!
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/nov/05/coventry-city-sisu-southampton
Agree with your first point cheeky. But as for the second, bad people can take over any level of football club, it happened to Coventry so I feel sympathy for the fans. Otherwise people could take the same stance about Brighton if they happened to be supporters of less successful clubs than us...