"Every morning at 8am, four men with toolboxes set off for work, potter about a bit, and toddle off home again... It could be any workplace anywhere, but this time their boss knows all about their antics. In fact, it's his idea. It is a cunning ruse, the embodiment of Valencia's modus operandi over the last year: pretend everything's OK, perfectly norm"
So starts Sid Lowe's amusing, amazing tale of how La Liga club Valencia went from being €547-million in debt, and on the brink of going out of business for good, to now qualifying for the Champions League. It's the kind of story they'd never tell in a book on How To Run A Business... but y'know what? Maybe they should.