Thankfully that myth finally blown out of the water 05ish ? When the council or bank had to bail them out after their first galactico spree.
True, but till jack walker and his millions came along and then Hall (Newcastle) to a degree we outspent anyone near us and from 88 till we did in 93 we spent massive money (for the time) and nearly broke the then transfer record on the players we were signing.
Wouldn't that have meant we be owned by the racist sexist bigot murdoch and no the Gov didn't give us the yanks, Alex Ferguson and his bloody ego did with his thinking he could beat two billionaires over a poxy horse in court, shows how little he knew really in that world, as one was from a city here in Ireland known as a third world city aka stab city aka Limerick and still when he was born resembled the slums of London, Dublin in the 1800s and made himself a billionaire. And even now that guy gets the Irish Gov to go along with his ideas, told them he'd get them the 2026 Ryder Cup, house them (his hotel/castle) and use his course as the venue free of charge, well not really, the Gov has to finally pump major money into Limerick now.