In the astonishing summer of 2009, Notts County Football Club was taken over on the back of huge mineral rights granted to Swiss Commodity Holdings by the North Korean Presidium; Sven Goran Eriksson attended at the signing ceremony in Pyongyang; SCH were added to the Club's badge and Eriksson took over as director of football with dreams of the Premiership. It became known as the Project and it continued for a few short months before collapsing into a pit of fraud and recrimination.
Written by an insider involved at every turn in the whole extraordinary episode: read about it all in Political Football.
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