Most of us can only dream of owning a football club, but for the very rich, it's an opportunity

towards power, influence and even more money. So who are the people that try to buy football

clubs? And how do football's authorities decide who gets the green light

for a takeover.

Amayo Aki-Welere.

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast.

Okay, so here for this one, we have the athletics, Adam Crafton.

Let's not forget, newly crowned sports writer of the year, Adam Crafton.

And also, Matt, don't think I forgot, the Silver Sports News Reporter category as well.

We ain't going to forget you as well, sir.

First loser.

Congratulations to you both.

Let's talk about this series, right?

Men who want to buy English football clubs and it's been running across the athletic

all this week.

You've both contributed to it.

So Matt, let's start with you on this one.

What has this series told us about the characters who want to get involved in

owning English football clubs in particular?

Well, there's an awful lot of clubs out there. There's lots of buyers, good, bad and indifferent.

People get into it for a whole host of reasons. There is no one type of buyer. And I'm afraid to say there's no one type of rogue buyer either. You know, they are motivated by different, by different things. You know, what have we learned? Well, look, owning a football club is pretty cool, isn't it? It's pretty exciting. You know, particularly if you weren't sort of good enough to play the game, you know, it's pretty, it's sort of like the closest thing, right? It's competition, it's exciting.

It makes you famous, so that's good if that's what you're into.

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