Source: TheGuardian
There is more to lament about fallen Swansea than relegation | David Conn
Swansea’s cooperative, supporter-led ownership ideal once admired in the game has also fallen through the trapdoor in resentful circumstancesA wider sadness surrounds Swansea’s relegation from the Premier League after an acrimonious couple of years than just the end of a romantic football flight. The “Swansea way” had more to it than the elegant style of passing football shaped through promotions by the managers Roberto Martínez and Brendan Rodgers.The cooperative, supporter-led ownership structure of the club was greatly admired and envied through the rise up the divisions but it was fractured by the majority shareholders’ sale in 2016 to the US investors Jason Levien and Stephen Kaplan. Related: Swansea prepare for exits of Alfie Mawson and Lukasz Fabianski Related: Chairman and absentee owners must take blame for Swansea’s decline | Stuart James Continue reading......read full article
