The Critic Magazine

NICK TIMOTHY

IMAGINE RUNNING AN organisation where, no matter how bad your product, no matter how many times you let your customers down, those customers keep coming back for more.

I am not talking about the misery of flying with Ryanair, or chasing lost post from Royal Mail, or the many disasters delivered by the Great British public sector. I am talking about something much more important: FOOTBALL CLUBS.

For football clubs are very odd businesses indeed. They do not operate a monopoly, but we would never switch our allegiance. Neither do they lack

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