Jesus, you are so, so wrong! I'm really amazed that fans exist who think Richardson is some kind of innocent party. While Geoffrey Robinson wasn't my most favourite of people, at least he did put something
into the club. Richardson was take, take, take.
Otis, let's see why "tis Richardson who gets all the blame", shall we?
In our first season in the Nationwide (Championship) our wage bill was £18.2M, which equated to 111% of our turnover.
- Bryan Richardson earned £184,523 in the year he was booted off the board, compared to £633,193 the season before.
- Backed by Bryan Richardson, at a time when the Sky Blues were cutting back; making redundancies, players taking wage deferrals, Gordon Strachan sued the Club for £300,000.
- Bob Ainsworth on the end of the Bryan Richardson tenure: "Over a relatively short period they've come to a position where they don't own the ground, they don't own the contaminated land on which they hope somebody is going to be able to build a stadium and they don't own all their footballers.
- The club used to contribute £45000 a year towards his pension.
- In this last three years at the Club, despite his massive earnings he still borrowed the following amounts from the Club: £88,223, £79,214; and £59,418.
- Accounts also reveal that chairman Bryan Richardson's total remuneration package rose to £588,045 in 2000 from £217,432 the previous year - an increase of 170 per cent. Richardson's remuneration included a bonus for his work in selling the shopping development on the Foleshill
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- At one time City owned their own stadium AND the land that the Ricoh was built on.
- The club was also paying £415,000 a year to lease back its Highfield Road ground which was sold to Maclean Homes. The club has extended its option to lease the ground beyond the end of 2002.
If SISU did even half of what Richardson did then I would be wearing a SISU out t-shirt myself. While they've undoubtedly made mistakes they (and we) are still paying the price for Richardson's greed. It's a shame that fans like you have forgotten how BAD things could be.
Geoffrey was the puppet master, yet tis Richardson who gets all the blame.
Interesting.