Not often I come to Mr Swann’s defence but he was promised the land free or virtually free by the council and the first developer. I don’t know if there was a contract in place (you would hope so) but the developer went bust. The council then found a new developer and they then jointly expected Swann to pay for the land and a big chunk of supporting infrastructure.
This made the new stadium financially not viable. That series of events is the only thing in the last 9 years that I have sympathy with Swann for.
Probably explains why the council leader does not get a Christmas card from the Swann’s.
Also to be fair your design and detailed plans have to be presented as part of a planning application so those costs were inevitable.
I want new owners as much as anyone and in my opinion the club has been run spectacularly badly for 5 years.
I hold Mr Swann totally responsible for that and the current nightmare situation the club is in but it seems to me he was not responsible for the failure of the new stadium project.
