As an aside to this 'non competitive' pc stuff, before he was exposed for the c*** he was, David Belotti was once challenged, tongue in cheek I hasten to add, at a Gulls Eye Dinner by Tony Millard who said the then Albion chief exec wouldn't be truly happy until we had a 'one legged, black...
As the debate rages on, clearly lottery funding is a huge factor but I've heard on at least two media outlets that it was John Major that kicked it all off in the wake of the 1996 debacle in effectively the last 9 months of his tenure at Number 10.
Great if this is the case, but unfortunately...