Let's not even re-visit the differing punishments meted out for illegal payments
Off the FA Cup topic I know, but is there, anywhere, a definitive version of what we suffered and how that compared to, say, Posh being demoted, certain 'big' clubs getting away with fines rather than little 'ol Swindon getting demoted, and so on?
There's plenty of apocryphal tales of Man Ure and others lining the pockets of parents when they sign their young sprogs, of new cars being left outside the houses of transfer targets back in the '70s as well. I've heard from ex-Board Members how we, along with others, allegedly manipulated attendance figures to provide a ready supply of (non-taxable) cash.
But apart from digging out the original press exposures of our 'crimes' (which were hardly unbiased anyway), I've yet to come across a serious, written, debate about the whole issue and how we compared to other clubs. I gave up on Tom Bower's 'Broken Dreams' because it seemed to concentrate on the usual suspects (Bates, Clough etc), but that was years ago so maybe I need to get hold of it again.
Guess in the end we're too insignificant.
