Pink Floyd talk about the sensible things to do with money – ‘grab the cash with both hands and make a stash’ before deciding to waste it on ‘new car, caviar, four star daydream, think I’ll buy me a football team’.
If Pink Floyd could see that buying a football club was an insane waste of money back in 1972 we can’t claim that this is the first time that it’s been a problem. Equally, we can’t claim we’ve always been on the poor side of the argument. Remember that, in the post war years, we were known as the Bank of England club, able to buy any player we wanted. Of course, unlike City, United or Chelsea who used their immense financial advantage to win things, we managed a third-place finish before the superstars fell out with each other and it all went wrong again.
As well as gracing the pitch at that time, Shack described what happened perfec