The BBC has a piece on the takeover of Notts County FC in 2009 which turned out to be a scam. It interested me at the time because I used to pass the Notts County ground on my daily commute.
Notts County and the conman: Following your team through a football scam
The first game of the new football season feels the same no matter what team you support. There's a heady mix of excitement and anticipation, a first look at new signings, a clean slate to dream that this might be the year.
When I took my seat at a packed Meadow Lane for Notts County's first game of the 2009-10 season, that first-game buzz was like nothing I had ever experienced, because something incredible had just happened.
Less than a month earlier, in July 2009, League Two Notts County had been taken over by a mysterious consortium called Munto Finance. They had stated their bold ambition to reach the Championship within five years and pledged to back those plans with untold wealth.
I'm reminded of Net Zero. Much bigger and not the same at all, but also bound to fail as dependable 24/7 green, non-nuclear energy isn't there. Again - as if the lies just take over and run the show until it hits the inevitable brick wall.
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Probably once Boris has gone his successor will start scaling back the targets. We might even get a government which attempts to make a virtue out of realism. Once a few people get cold or find petrol to be prohibitively expensive, they'll be ready to accept paternalistic controls of any type. They'll be grateful for the poverty, having seen it is better than freezing.
Whoever takes over from Boris, and whenever that might happen, it will be the same Civil Service pulling the strings.
Sam - the targets will have to be scaled back at some point because they aren't achievable. Boris would probably be quite good at selling it too, but seems unlikely to have the chance.
decnine - it's a pity the string-pullers don't bear the responsibility, but they generally don't.
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