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All the blame was aimed at George Soros at the time, but Lewis made as much, if not more.

Joe Lewis was born in England, but chooses not to pay taxes there, and stiffed the UK taxpayer for at least a billion in 1992 by betting against the pound. He is no friend of this country, or football, for that matter.

True, but we have an underclass at present in many respects. Only 3 teams have won the Premier League in the last 13 years, had it not been for owner funding, I suspect it would have been just one club too. This season, with the success of Leicester to date, has been great, but one swallow...

You can have a government elected by the voting system and have Jeremy Hunt ending up as Health Secretary.

Spurs are registered in the Bahamas, owned by a tax exile.

Yup, understand where you are coming from, and of course, the lawyers, like cockroaches, will be the most successful in all this. Realistically at the start of each season any 3 of 14/15 clubs could be relegated, so an investor is looking at approximately a 20% chance of losing their honey pot...

Richard Bevan mentioned it at an LMA conference in 2011. No one has said anything publicly, and in theory the FA could veto such a proposal, but we do now have 14 foreign owned clubs in the Premier League. I have been advised that US investors are unhappy with the prospect of losing 80% of...