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Les Brechin
February 25, 2022, 11:18am

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Well worth a listen!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/p.....rangestCrimesS2E1%5D

This is just the first episode but there are links to further ones.


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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…


'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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February 25, 2022, 11:26am

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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…


From the podcast description.

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From the world’s oldest football league club to the communist dictatorship of North Korea, this incredible story has it all.

It’s a tale of greed and intrigue that takes us on a journey from the streets of Nottingham to the Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain. At the heart of it, a conman who fooled football bosses, a London bank and foreign regimes. Russell King’s audacious multi-million pound scam which brought the world’s oldest football club Notts County to the brink of oblivion.

The story begins at the club’s ground Meadow Lane. It’s 2009 and team has just managed to their football league status after years of fighting for survival. Out of the blue comes a knight in shining armour with promises of untold wealth from the Middle East and ambitions to catapult the club from the lowly fourth tier to the Premier League.

Enter former England manager Sven Goran Eriksson and England and Arsenal legend Sol Campbell. All of a sudden Notts County are surfing the crest of the wave – they’re off to the promised land. But is all as it seems? Or are dreams about to be shattered?



Absolutely nothing to do with Town but still worth a list when you've got a bit of spare time.


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February 25, 2022, 11:28am
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Is this a true story or fiction?
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I enjoyed the Allen Stanford ones so will give this a go. Didn't realise they had done a Shergar one too, weirdly done by Vanilla Ice!
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February 25, 2022, 12:47pm

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Is this a true story or fiction?


No way Sven would've gone to Notts County so must be some sort of Jilly Cooper thing.


JESUS AT THE CENTRE
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Is this about Alex May? The honest man with integrity that Mr Fenty was bringing in to the club…


Alex May is the £10 conman. Even highly sophisticated conmen wouldn't want anything to do with John.
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The Notts County story was all a bit crazy. Sven turned out to be incredibly dodgy in the whole situation and everyone soon left when the money didn't materialise. There is a Youtube video that sums up all the major points if you don't care for a podcast. https://youtu.be/obOBSDpDuJo
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I enjoyed this Les and was pleased to hear Matt Scott as a contributor as he did a lot of the heavy lifting in this expose.

Off topic but Matt's a gent off the pitch but a complete hothead on it. I used to play 5aside with him and he'd get sent off virtually every game! 🤣

Funnily enough, a mate from Cleethorpes told me the same about BBC Sport's Mark Chapman, who he used to play up front alongside for a Hull Uni old boys team in a London league.
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Quoted from Kris2
The Notts County story was all a bit crazy. Sven turned out to be incredibly dodgy in the whole situation and everyone soon left when the money didn't materialise. There is a Youtube video that sums up all the major points if you don't care for a podcast. https://youtu.be/obOBSDpDuJo


Having listened to the whole series of the Trillionaire Conman, I don't think Sven was particularly dodgy at all. Notts fans were full of praise for him for sticking around longer than many would have, even though he knew he wasn't going to get paid (and most of the promised money was in shares of a bogus company set up by Russell King).
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