Celebrating Bolton Wanderers' Great Dane on his 50th birthday

Growler wrote:Great business that summer, sold Claus Jensen for £4 million and brought in Per Frandsen for £1.6 million. Frandsen clearly the better player and a healthy profit.

Well done for getting this thread back on track. We'd somehow strayed into discussing Biggles and his possible inclinations.
Cajun needs to be taken in hand. (Not it the Biggles sense). He's in danger of getting out of control.

Rooting through some memorabilia, I came across this article published in the Independent in 2004.

The bits about Eddie Davies being a tax exile are pervasive nonsense. He moved to IOM to join Strix when he was a relatively young man and Strix was a small business operating from an old cinema building in Castletown. The bit about John Taylor resigning is also wrong. He retired at the age of 65 selling some of his shares at the same time.

The article is misleading in several other ways but does include some interesting information. Brian Scowcroft must have known that it was derogatory to describe ED as 'a tax exile' and it is noteworthy that he resigned from the board of BWFC around the same time that Per Frandsen was re-signed from Blackburn Rovers. He was the first of the old regime to step down completely. 

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Its also interesting that ED wouldn't talk to David Conn. I think it likely that he mistrusted journalists even back then and decided to give most of them a wide berth on the chip paper theory.
The trouble with the BEN was that it produced chip paper six days a week and it took its toll.