Owners don't run a football team - that is the route to all sorts of problems. You appoint a CEO to run it off the pitch and a coach or director of football or whatever to run the football side. Then you have a board that oversees it all The owners may have an involvement in the commercial operation because of their experience, maybe help with sponsors and sponsorship, but they don't need to run the club.
Terry had no experience running a football club, but in the first 2 years when we had an experienced off field team we were one of if not the best run club in the league
This is a bit of a fantasy. Generally, chairmen run football clubs, usually because it's their money.
Edit - in England at least. Bits of continental europe have much less of this (Germany, France, the Scando countries), and bits have it much worse than England - Italy, Greece.
Smithy2011-09-16 14:27:09