Inside Football: Money pressures threaten English game's most envied club structure.(Sport) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 24, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: David Conn

HERE'S A question: what do you do with the club which has professional football's most enviable structure, run not by businessmen-investors but loyal fans, a system which has protected the club from asset-strippers and provided a platform for one of the most impressive rises the English game has ever seen? The answer, in these times of debt and money worries, appears to be that you scrap it, turn the club into a company like nearly all the others, with shares available to any wheeler-dealer looking to make a few bob.

That, at least, seems to be the ...

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