I watched the Football League show on BBC 1 last night. They had a special feature on Orient and Barry Hearn was interviewed and asked questions posed by Orient fans. One of the questions was why he sold Orient's ground to one of the other companys he owns (Matchroom I think). Hearn's reaction was that this was in the best interests of the club. In the studio they had Mark Bright and Dougie Freedman both ex Palace players. They both agreed with Hearn saying that when Ron Noades bought the freehold of Selhurst park it helped secure Crystal Palaces's immediate future.
I might be missing something here but I think there are absolutely no circumstances in which it benefits a club to sell the freehold of its ground to another party irrespective of whether it is to current or former owners or members of the board.
Did anyone else see this program and understand why they believed it was a good thing?
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