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Isn't it about time the Premier League took a firm line with these jokers - like the Indian poultry magnates who've just bought Blackburn?

Isn’t it about time the Premier League took a firm line with these jokers – like the Indian poultry magnates who’ve just bought Blackburn?

By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2010

You really couldn’t make it up. A poultry producer from India called Venky’s has just bought Premier League club Blackburn Rovers for £47m (have they received the money yet?) fired the capable manager Sam Allardyce and announced that they intend to be in the top six of the Premiership without spending any more money. Rao [...]

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We all knew the UK Premier League was a crooks and chancers charter - but now the Chinese government wants to buy Liverpool!

We all knew the UK Premier League was a crooks and chancers charter – but now the Chinese government wants to buy Liverpool!

By Stephen Foster on August 5, 2010

It’s one thing Abu Dhabi buying Manchester City (it’s only an allotment with a generous supply of oil wells) but the Chinese Development Corporation (possibly the biggest pile of free cash the world has ever seen) wanting to buy Liverpool should make even Peter Scudamore and the Premier League management think twice. Allowing Premier League [...]

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