It's a Bit Rich to Call Owners 'Fit and Proper' ; Roger's Rant

Birmingham Mail › October 15, 2009

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IGET the feeling that if Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Attila the Hun turned up at St James' Park, St Mary's, Meadows Lane or wherever in a Panzer tank to annex, sorry, take over a football club, then they would still be deemed fit and proper people by our football authorities.

At Manchester City we had an owner in former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who had a rap sheet in his home country longer than the current owners' bank statements.

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It's a Bit Rich to Call Owners 'Fit and Proper' ; Roger's Rant

Admittedly, Thailand is not exactly the cradle of democracy or a bastion of human rights ...

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