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There have been a few moments that I've been at the club where I just make the decision on the basis.

I don't want to die at Wondry. And I think that was a moment really with club where I just make the decision on the basis I don't want to die at wandering.

And I think that was a moment really with Oliver.

I just felt, look, this is the moment

and I think this maybe is the guy.

Either we try this or we're never going to try it.

We're always going to be 10th to 14th team.

Is that how I want to leave this place?

Is that what I want to leave this place is that what I want to be remembered for

If you've ever wondered what a chairman of a football club does this series running the game is for you

It's a series designed to speak to the human beings in the front office of football,

in the boardroom, off the field, far away from the glare of the spotlight. They are the human

beings that shape the game we love. How do their decisions work? How do they succeed? What

do they learn from failure? This is running the game. My guest today is a remarkable human being, a gent who stepped

in to save the football club he'd loved as a kid in its hour of need, saving it first from

bankruptcy, leading the club back into the Premier League, making it a fixture in mid-table,

which was meant to be the ceiling. But then last season, a euphoric burst of joy of one corner flag smashing celebration after another,

oversaw the team's first silverware, and it's a 115 year history, that Wembley Day Out against Manchester City, a one-nill victory, which honestly is a neutral looking around the world,

the tenacity, the courage, the buccaneering football you could only look on in admiration

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