The other thing was that now, money and football are so linked everything is totally cut-throat, one boardroom fuck up can set you back ten to fifteen years like Hicks and Gillette did to us. With the general mediocrity of all owners them days, there was more room for mistakes, you had more time on the ball and therefore your fuck ups were easier to hide and less crucial, Football was still run in part by grocers and factory owners as a hobby, the likes of Hicks and Gillette where only begining to eye up their Weetabix's and hadn't even heard of football. In this world it wasn't that our owners were brilliant it was that there was no competion, not hard to look good standing next to fat Louis and Michael Knighton but we were just cattle through the turnstiles.