Oxford's situation is so different to us. Kassam came in and promised to spend millions on getting the team up the leagues, but he has spent next to nothing on players and has in fact often sold the club's best for a quick buck. Many Oxford fans think that Kassam doesn't want the team to go up to avoid paying more wages and to avoid building the 4th side of the ground (he said he won't do it until the other 3 are full every week). A few seasons ago Oxford were looking dead certs for promotion, but Kassam had all the players on one year deals and refused to negotiate until the season was over. This is why Ian Atkins quit - he couldn't work in a situation where the players (or in fact he, I think) weren't sure of their futures. The players didn't perform due to the worry of their prospective contract renewals and Oxford missed the playoffs. Kassam has also banned certain local journalists from visiting the stadium on the grounds that they criticised him in the Oxford Mail. He's pumped lots of money into the complex around the ground too. It's pretty clear that he bought the club so that he could buy the land for the stadium and then build a mini-empire around. The money he's spent on a multiplex cinema, bowling alley and hotel far exceeds the cash he's put into the football club. I know many Oxford fans who are completely disillusioned and don't want anything to do with the club until he's out. This man doesn't give a crap about football and just wants to make money - he's the one that wanted to merge Bristol and Bath rugby clubs and then bring them to play in Oxford, just so he could milk more money from geniune sports fans. The whole debacle makes me so grateful that we have a chairman, who perhaps sometimes makes decisions that baffle us fans, who genuinely cares about the future of the football club and will do everything possible to keep us in existence. All those that pray for some rich investor to come in and 'save' us should take a long look at the likes of Hassam at Oxford, Knighton at Carlisle and Reynolds at Darlington before blindly wishing for some cash-flush 'messiah'. The grass is always greener. Or redder, in this case.
YAAAAAAAS