The League Paper

CHINESE RIDDLE NO-ONE SOLVED

by
The LeaguePaper Team
6 May 2018

AS Northampton Town’s drop from League One was gathering momentum, the departure, at the end of March, of the club’s mysterious Chinese majority shareholders, 5USport, seemed to slip under the radar somewhat.
I was a little bemused at the manner in which Cobblers fans welcomed the arrival of the “sport and education” firm in June, despite the fact that very little of substance was known about them, beyond having once invited John Terry to Guangzhou in 2015 as an “ambassador of football”.
“There’s no ceiling in football,” Kelvin Thomas, t...

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