You couldn't make it up
03 June 2004. Inspired by .
Birmingham City, for example, were stunned during contract negotiations when Jehovah's representatives insisted on a contract clause that banned the other members of the team from making any money from "graven image rights". "He didn't want supporters at St Andrews to adore anyone else but him," Steve Bruce recalls of the aborted deal. "It was totally unbelievable."
Best. Football. Column. Ever.