In reality , you have members at the top who are even elected or not who make all the decisions. It's a perfectly viable system as the Bundesliga maintains. You get a lot of nonsense from members of a Trust, they should have more say, but in actuality, Exeter have had no manager sacked since our Trust model started. That's from 2003.
as opposed to the current situation
Indeed, count the amount of sensibly well run clubs on two hands and you'll be struggling, you won't be struggling to find the same amount, massively in debt, and run like a basketcase.as opposed to the current situation
Take this as a reply to both the quoted post and the other one you made. It's a fair point. I guess I am looking at it from the perspective of a club that, for all its faults and ability to inflict cruel misery upon me, is one of the best ran in the lower leagues by virtue of having fantastic owners. That being said those very owners have endeavoured to include both the Trust and the Supporters Club, making the heads of both Associate Directors and genuinely consulting with them. To me this way feels right and works, but I say that knowing its from a position of privilege
I think events have shown that if some sort of breakaway were done properly, English clubs have tons of leverage given how things collapsed fairly quickly as soon as Chelsea folded.
What football fans are actually like is always a bit of an elephant in the room - everyone in the game speaks of us in hallowed tones when really our defining feature with respect to everyone else is how much abuse we scream at strangers during the average week.
Yes but he wouldn't have known that at the time tbf