All credit to him for his success and various projects but the first impression of Cardiff when coming out of the railway station is quite soulless.
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Steve Borley made his millions from nothing and has ploughed his money back into the places he loved as a boy.
All credit to him for his success and various projects but the first impression of Cardiff when coming out of the railway station is quite soulless.
Every chairman of a football club should be someone like steve Borley. Football would be much better if it was.
Nice to see a write up on a positive subject
Looks like he deserves every penny
All credit to Borley for what he’s achieved so far. Very impressive.
Curly Humphreys story is just as interesting and impressive.
2 local lads who did well.
Steve Borley is a throwback to the days when football clubs in the top two divisions tended to be run by local businessmen and the weird thing is that plenty of the clubs with overseas owners who throw money about like it is going out of fashion are no better off now than they were then - in fact, they’re worse off in lots of cases.
Steve Borley is a good Cardiffian who has put a lot into both his home city and its football club - chwarae teg to him.
Interesting quote from Steve Borley
Then in 2000, Sam Hammam came in as new Cardiff City owner. Steve offers his take on the next six years that would follow: "When a club is for sale you're always going to attract weirdos," he said. "We ended up forced to do a deal with Hammam. I assumed I would be gone but he kept me on as chair for a bit. Hamman had run out of money by 2006."
The Lebanese businessman was best known for making one of football's most rakish financial killings from Wimbledon. He walked away with around £36m, first by selling the Plough Lane ground to Safeway for £8m, then the club itself to two Norwegian investors. He promised much for Cardiff but by the time they reached the First Division in 2003 the wage bill exceeded the club's entire earnings. The debts, £1.5m when Hammam arrived, had ballooned to almost £23m
Always Liked Steve, I will never forget the messages we exchanged prior to Scam joining, Steve always had the clubs best interests at heart with whatever that meant to him
the guy deserves nothing but respect from us city fans
I’ve my beef with him for some of his actions during the rebrand, but overall can’t fault him.
At the moment perhaps, with the offices quiet, and the array of chain stores, but when the bus station is finished and hopefully people get back into work more and back on the trains more, it could become very vibrant.
Personally I think Central Square is looking the best it ever has - maybe it had something when the old bus station was new, but I think for most of the last 20 years or so the welcome to the city was dreadful