{"id":321,"date":"2008-05-28T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=321"},"modified":"2008-05-28T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:20:44","slug":"a-trust-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"A Trust Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img align=\"right\" src='https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/cash.gif' alt='cash.gif' \/>I found this article on a football blog called Twohundredpercent, and I had to read one sentence twice before I believed it: the top four in the English Premiership, who dominated the latter stages of the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest sporting spectacle&#8221;, the Champion&#8217;s League, have combined debts of almost \u00a32 billion. Yep, \u00a32 billion. What price success? Well, now we know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, four Trust-owned clubs (Stockport County, Exeter City, AFC Wimbledon and FC United of Manchester) achieved promotion further down the English footballing pyramid, and have arguably got a more secure future than the clubs at the top of the pyramid.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/200percent.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/trust-issue.html\">Twohundredpercent: A Trust Issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Independent&#8217;s article (not much more than facts and figures, but worth reading after Twohundredpercent&#8217;s commentary) is here: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/transfers\/whats-in-the-kitty-how-the-premier-league-clubs-shape-up-financially-834762.html\">What&#8217;s in the kitty? How the Premier League clubs shape up financially &#8211; Transfers, Football &#8211; The Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this article on a football blog called Twohundredpercent, and I had to read one sentence twice before I believed it: the top four in the English Premiership, who dominated the latter stages of the &#8220;world&#8217;s greatest sporting spectacle&#8221;, the Champion&#8217;s League, have combined debts of almost \u00a32 billion.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raithtrust.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}