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100 Owners: Tony Lazarou, Enfield FC

100 Owners: Tony Lazarou, Enfield FC

The sale of a football ground resulted in a new way of fans being able to protest their owners; by walking away from it en masse.

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Ian King
Feb 17, 2024
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100 Owners: Tony Lazarou, Enfield FC
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In November 2011, a non-league football club made its first appearance at its new home ground. This in itself is nothing truly remarkable. After all, football clubs relocating has been a common enough sight over the last quarter of a century or so. But for this particular club, the move was a special one, bringing, as it did, to an end twelve years of asset-stripping, internecine arguing and a battle to keep senior football alive in a borough on the periphery of London that had previously become synonymous with one of the best known names in non-league football.

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