Maybe I'm a bit thick but what is the problem with him paying himself back with interest? It's a peculiar thing with football fans that they think owners of their clubs shouldn't be allowed to make any money out of it.
The Reverend Pitt didn't form STFC so that some chancer could make money out of it.... Sam Allen didn't run STFC by selling shares in the Works, so that some chancer could make money out of it.... the likes of Cecil Green, Eric Lane, even Brian Hillier didn't run STFC so that some chancer could make money out of it.
Major Goddard didn't bequeath land to SBC so that some chancer could make money out of it.
The fans didn't, what would now be termed, crowdfund in the dark days of 30's economic depression to build the TE, so that some chancer could make money out of it. David Murray John didn't get SBC to sub the club for The Arkells, so that some chancer could make money out of it.
No....they wanted to put out a team, that would entertain and also instil a sense of pride into the workers of Swindon and District.
Something to lift the spirits from the daily grind of the consequences wars, economic depressions, recessions and poverty.