How to Run a Successful Football Club

Taken from Cormac DevlinWe see many cases of bad chairmanship in football every season, as well as cases where we believe the club that holds our passion is being mismanaged even when it is not. We have seen the success obsessed clubs fall short of hopes and almost disappear from existence and we have seen the fruits of meticulous planning and frugality ripen into unbeaten seasons.Of course, we see everything in between those contrasting fates every season too, but that does not grab headlines. What you are about to read is a five point manual for which I believe a good chairman will need to not just run a club, but run it and  be successful.1. Financial sustainabilityBoring yes, but vital. In England, the two highest profile examples of flouncing rule No. 1 belong to the former owner...