Convicted rapist gets 11million pound bonus

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04/03/2012 16:03

Convicted rapist Owen Oyeston gets 11million pound bonus

When Blackpool embarked on their historic first - and so far only - season in the Premier League, chairman Karl Oyston railed at the 'mad world' of 'arms race' salary payments and poured scorn on players chasing money above all else.



'Sometimes, I think ambition goes out of the window in favour of personal financial gain,' he said at the time. His words may now come back to haunt him.



For Blackpool's financial accounts for that 2010-11 campaign, filed in the past 48 hours and relating to their first season in the top flight for 39 years, reveal that one of Blackpool's six directors was paid a staggering £11 million in remuneration for the season that ended with the club's relegation back to the Championship.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2109838/Owen-Oyston-paid-11m-Blackpool-relegated-Nick-Harris.html#ixzz1o9lv72Tr



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