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Selling a League 1 club is hard

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Submitted by WG on Sat, 03/04/2010 - 08:01

Selling a League 1 club is not easy as Leyton Orient owner Barry Hearn admits in this revealing interview.   Orient are debt free, but they are losing a million pounds a year and it is not easy to sustain a League 1 club of average gates of 4,000.   If they were outside London it might be easier as the London football market is relatively over supplied and fans have quality football on their doorstep, albeit at a higher price and not as easy to get into as Orient.

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They've got the answer in Serbia...

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 09:07.

As this program on BBC World Service demonstrates, an astute club management can easily organise a pre-season tour with some carefully chosen fixtures and take along a large bag of cash in small denominations.