Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Obviously Mel won't sell. A fit again Mason Mount and a rejuvenated Swing low under the tutelage of Lamps who will have had time to dust off and finish that book written by Bielsa, will send us dancing into the playoffs, hammering a tired looking Leeds side in the finals with incisive 1 touch football and a coming of age performance from the young Tom Huddlestone.

However, there were times I think even Mel would agree he's been a little impetuous. Fortunately for us Frankie will save Mel.

However, spare a thought for little brother Nottingham. Their owner having tired of the world's most boring football under Karanka impetuously turned towards the sentimental appeal of dinosaur-ball. The Forest faithful loyal and as obliging as they were in times of Fawaz, donned their Shipstones shirts, rehearsed their Jason Lee chants and there was even talk about seats being red again. It was a time for nostalgia.

There was a brief moment of hope before the crash. It almost looked good in a sort of limited and unispiring way.

They huffed and puffed in their 4-5-1, all they needed was tight shorts and longer hair and it would have been the 80's again. Similar to Pearce's managerial smash and grab at Derby a backward looking, kick and rush style played in 5th gear, beat a far better outfit caught DannyIngs around with it somewhere between 1st and 2nd.

The glory times were here again, their fans led by one JA 606 poster renowned for his liberal interpretation of arithmetic, started chanting "Top of the League". Joy o joy. Then fast forward barely a month and poor owd MerryKnackers' sentimental appointment, looks about as likely to succeed as smuggling heroin around the world, in massive ships and hoping no-one will notice.

Rumours have it that Dinosaurball is about to meet Psyhcoball, Billyball and Boringball in the recycling bin, something for their next owner to pick through when they take over. The date for the next turnover has not yet been set, but will likely be after the next managerial appointment goes South or the current owner has to do time.

We could waste our time talking about Forest's next managerial appointment, the consistent inability of the club to forge their own separate identity and path out of Derby's shadow, their default position of league one or their fans' unwavering support of owners that fluck them over as a club. However, I think more pertinent for me is the question how do multi-millionaire owners (the likes of which would take on Championship Derby or League One Forest) compete with corporate mafia giants.

In my experience throwing money at it works if you can steal the majority of the wealth from nations that you own or control but for the self made rich man, does he need to be more nuanced than that, when taking on a football club and how might the rich out fox the mega rich???



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