“Hi. I’m Daniel Timms”, I say when the door opens.
“Are you some sort of long-lost relative?”, the boy, who looks to be in his late teens, asks.
“Er, no. I’m Timms with two Ms.”
I’ve gone round to Richard Tims’ house, and I’m having a chat to his son. He goes back in, there’s a bit of debate behind the door about whether to speak to me, then Richard emerges. It’s on. “Someone has to say something,” he tells me.
I’m here to talk Sheffield FC with the man who lived and breathed it for 27 years as chairman of the club. (He claims to have coined the phrase ‘the home of football’ in 2018, an increasingly used epithet for both the club and the city.) I’d picked up that something a bit strange might be going at the world’s oldest football club from a friend in the pub who knows a bit. “I think it’s being bought by Saudi Arabia,” he told me.
Ok, he doesn’t know that much. It was actually Qatar. Sort of.
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