Gosling's Grouse - Education will save us from numpties!

There is a fit and proper test in football for anyone who wants to buy a football club, which is a joke, and, judging by recent conversations I have been having, the equivalent expression for our industry is sounding like an equal joke in some cases.

In football to buy a club all you need is a wedge of cash (it does not need to be yours), tell a couple of newspapers on the quiet you want to buy a team and before you know it you can have yourself a part of the ‘beautiful game’. In our industry all you need is a decent suit – M&S has some good offers for the cash-strapped on the suit front at the moment – polished shoes and clean teeth (teeth not compulsory, but desirable) and a believeable line in chat. All of those will get you into the industry, working under someone to take the full regulatory requirements, and if you are very s...