LONDON: The news on Wednesday that the Thai prime minister was contemplating a bid to buy Fulham, a century-old London soccer club, was coupled with a report that a Saudi Arabian sheikh might come to the rescue of Leeds, an ailing team in the north of England.
Such is the lure of Englands Premier League on television around the world, and such is the thirst for cash among the Premier League clubs who are overspending, that we can and should believe anything that comes with a seal of foreign government approval.