For once I largely agree with you, Gurny, though I do understand Les’s point. Football supporters aren’t always the most rational when talking about their club and in my case I’ve always supported the owner as much as possible, regardless of who it might be, because supporters are notorious in blaming them for everything. Clearly I was wrong in Swann’s case.
In my defence I couldn’t see how anyone could possibly take a club doing well at the top of the third tier and plunge it to the depths of non-league, with or without a pandemic. Yet Swann’s managed to do it. I don’t know if there are any stats on the worst football club owners of all time, but given what’s happened at SUFC it’s hard to believe Swann wouldn’t be up there with the worst of them.
Regarding him selling the club, I must confess that I’ve no idea what the latest might be as my interest has been sapped by our predicament over the last few months. Something that should be borne in mind, however, is that just as the sale of any business has to take account of ‘goodwill’, surely the price of SUFC should take account of the ‘badwill’ (or negative goodwill) generated by Swann; and, let’s face it, there’s plenty of that around, to say nothing of our dire league position.
Regardless of any hard assets, the future of the club is now bleak and IF Swann has any conscience he’ll take this into account and offer the club for a reasonable price. But I’m not holding my breath. What a total and utter disaster this man has been.
