Football club owners are a special breed, some are
genuine fans of the teams, enjoy the atmosphere on game days and put their
heart and soul into their clubs. But a lot of them are only there to make
money, launder money, boss people around and to make a fool of themselves.
These belong in the second category, and for a good reason
Venkys are an Indian family/investment group who bough
Blackburn Rovers late in 2010. They where quick to announce that nothing would
change in the running of the club, things would go on like they used to under
their current manager, Sam Allardyce. But only couple of weeks later he got fired
and Steve Kean, a man with absolutely no managerial experience replaced him. In
the next Januar tranfer window Blackburn became the laughing stock of football
worldwide when both Ronaldinho and Beckham turned them down, when Kean was
asked about it he clearly didnt know that the owners had made offers for the
players.Who can forget when Freddy Shepherd was at Newcastle, he set a new standard for shit owners and chairman when he fired Sir Bobby Robson only 4 games into the season. The same Bobby Robson who took charge of Newcastle when they where in relegation places, and got them into the champions league in two years. His biggest mess was although when a News of the world reporter fooled him, making Shepherd believe he was a sheikh who wanted to invest in Newcastle United. Shepherd bought it and after a few drinks at a brothel he shared everything he felt about Newcastle and the fans. He compared the women of Newcastle to dogs, he made fun of the people who buy the clubs shirts for owerpaying for crap merchandise and then he told the fake sheikh that Alan Shearer was so concerned of his apperance that he was the Mary Poppins of football. That resulted in countless songs from rival fans all around the country about Shearer and Mary Poppins.
Ken Richardson owned Doncaster in the early 90‘s and was once descriped by a police officer as „ the type of man that would trample a two-year-old kid to pick up a 2p bit". In 1995 Richardson's ultimate dream was to build a new stadium for the Rovers but was declined by the city council. He took matter into his own hands and hired two idiots two burn the current stadium down. They managed to burn a part of one stand before fleeing only to forget their mobile phones on the scene. It was an easy job for the police to track them down and Ken was jailed for four years. He wasnt finished with Doncaster tough and hired Nicky Weaver, who used to run the club shop, as a manager of the actual football team.
Gigi Becali became rich by buying a land of the Romanian army for money he didnt have and then he managed to sell it for a huge profit. He soon started buying shares in Steaua Bucharest and in 2003 he became the major shareholder of the club. He has ruled with a iron first since then, having changed managers 19 times in only 9 years, usually because the managers wouldnt allow him to pick the team himself like Georghe Hagi made public in 2007. He once admitted that „he wasnt a civilized man“ and in pretty sure we can all agree on that. He once called a black football reporter a monkey. He once stopped the transfer of a player because of a suspicion that he might be gay. „I will rather disolve Steua than have a gay player in our ranks“ he told reporters. In April of 2009 he was arrested after having 3 people illegally held against their will because he thought they had stolen his car. The year before he also had problems with the law when he lost money at a casino and started throwin chairs at the windows. He also once remarked that a woman "has no more value" after she has giver birth to a child. Gigi is currently sitting in the European parliament, using his powers against homosexuals, jews and women.
Kari Orn Hinriksson
@kariorn
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