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Chris Dunlavy: Dejphon Chansiri stadium call is one plus

Pettiness ran through Dejphon Chansiri like a stick of rock. He was a man who craved adoration, took any slight personally and reacted to criticism like a petulant child.

Sheffield Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri is under increasing pressure to sell the club (Mike Egerton/PA)

By Chris Dunlavy - A fresh take on football
Pettiness ran through Dejphon Chansiri like a stick of rock. He was a man who craved adoration, took any slight personally and reacted to criticism like a petulant child.

His constant threats towards Sheffield Wednesday supporters and insistence on fawning recognition were, in many ways, part of the personality complex that rendered him wholly unsuitable to own a football club.
Quite aside from his financial incompetence, he was simply too thin-skinned.
Thank goodness, then, that he has included the company that owns Hillsborough in the administra...

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