The biggest problem is, and always has been,that putting money into a football club is like betting that you are going to win a pile of money but when you lose you can take all your stake money back, or as much as you possibly can, leaving the club with the debt incurred by your gamble. Try that with a bookie, casino, lottery ticket, etc. what should happen is that you buy a business, you fk it up, you lose your money. Too many owners for too many years have not been prepared to put their money in to stay. Instead, if their gamble pays off they reap the rewards, if it doesn't then they asset strip the shit out of the club/business. The problem has got increasingly worse because with TV money the potential payoff is so much greater.
County have had their fair share of those kind of owners. That's why we are so lucky now to have Mark Stott, and to be fair the previous regime who got much stick for not spending more than they were prepared to personally say goodbye to.
I just can't understand why this continues to happen with fk all consequences for the shady characters using football clubs for a free punt at a big payday, then leaving them in the shit. I'm not a lawyer but it seems fraudulent to me? Basically spending money on credit with no intention of actually paying the debt.