Quote: DILLIGAF "You might want to take a look at some facts first.
Money is actually the main reason they have dropped so far. Once the club got relegated from the Premier League, they couldn't afford the wages they had already committed to (Benito Carbone being the most well publicised). That, along with other monetary factors, meant the club ended up doing into administration, from which they have never recovered.
Obviously there is more to it, but that's the basic truth of it. If you think Bradford City have a lot of money to spend, you are very very much mistaken.
On the original subject though, I think it may be time for a change of manager now. If McCall doesn't go soon, he's going to end up being remembered for the wrong reasons at Valley Parade, when he should be remembered as one of the greatest players to ever play for the club.'"
City were sunk during the Richmond period. It's strange that the seeds of (almost) destruction were spread at two clubs in the same city during periods of their greatest on field success.
A bloke I know in the pub (yeah, I know, but I know him fairly well) was/is a shareholder in City during the Richmond's chairmanship. He told me he had a couple of thousand quid's worth of shares or so, which he'd held for some time, and only received two or three pounds in payouts for years. Not that he was bothered or expected any more. He is a fan and didn't buy the shares to make any money but to help 'his' club.
During the Richmond stewardship the share payments rose to twenty pounds then fifty and finally over four hundred pounds, and as he pointedly asked, if he was getting all that, what were the big shareholders taking out?
