It’s a tough life being the owner of a Premier League club, so spare a thought for Mohamed Al Fayed on today his seventy-ninth birthday. His club is categorized as ‘small’, it is frequently used by “buggers” like Mark Hughes as a stepping-stone to supposedly bigger and better things, he has the oligarch funded Chelsea next door and his historic stadium is bounded by the River Thames on one side and highly desirable, expensive housing, much of it owned by bonused-up City workers who wish nothing more than for Craven Cottage to just go away. He has fed the club with enough funding to keep it mid-table and then,...
