Fleetwood have a modern (granted on the smaller side), clean, well functioning stadium with executive boxes, an impressive , modern training facility that they own and a category 2 academy (one of the best in the bottom 2 divisions) to show for it.
1. Highbury is owned by Wyre Borough Council, the club rent it
2. It was a complete wreck that had seen no development since the 1950s until a 2 stage development plan the started in 2008 and ended in 2011
3. It has a capacity of 5500 much of which is still terraced which limits the Leagues they can play in.
It is amazing considering where they came from. But they were a Phoenix club with no debt when Pulley took over. AND HE TOOK OVER IN 2003 MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO.
Four years after he took over the club were in the Northern Premier League, the academy was non existent and the ground was entirely undeveloped.
He lent the club millions to build all that and it's taken 22 years.