Fair point about who sold Kingsmeadow but the Khosla family were only in a position to do that because of the previous board spending money they didn't have in pursuit of trophies and life in the Conference. I wouldn't see too many parallels with the Hamlet. They had a decent ground which was barely ten years old and decent crowds but they chose to over-extend themselves. Actually, not themselves, the club.
The Khoslas paid £500k for the club and the ground lease. Considering the restrictions on land use I imagine they could barely believe their carpetbagging luck when Wimbledon offered them just shy of £2.5 million for the lease.
Bottom line though is that Ks have had 20 years since then to get their act together. In that time they had 15 years of free and peppercorn rent, a cool £1m from Wimbledon borne out of a combination of guilt and the fee for breaking the landlord/tenant agreement, and an actual local councillor in their ranks. The supporters have also chosen not to take ownership of the club on more than one occasion but, as ever, their ongoing predicament is always somebody else's fault.
I hope they sort themselves out but there doesn't seem to be much indication that they will. So many opportunities to cut their cloth accordingly and secure a long-term future and yet it appears to me that they chose instead to bury their heads in the sand for way too long.
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