Excellent documentary. Shows how Major League Baseball gobbled up all the small independent ball clubs all over the country, turned them into franchisee feeder clubs and ruined the grassroots. The Bastards put up a valiant fight against them. It could have only happened in the 1970s.
I was just thinking what a relief it is to have done this business so early. Transfer season is usually really tense for Villa trying to drag deals over the line. Love the new dynamism the club is showing.
The ESR approach always seemed pretty extravagant. But we've unsettled Arsenal and perhaps forced them to cough up more money to keep the player. We'll have weakened a direct rival.