Top 5 craziest football club owners, presidents and chairmen

We all dream of someday having our very own football club - a big stadium filled to the brim with excited spectators, skilled footballers and weird mascots, a perfect utopia that follows the rules set down by us,the club owners.But the 5 men listed below took the concept of owning a football club to another level altogether.Calling them crazy would be an understatement. From hiring and firing coaches at the drop of a hat, to parading elephants on a football pitch, these men have been there, done that and then some more. Their antics and general behaviour crossed the line on so many occasions that rather than blaming them, it's the people who allowed them to run a football club that should be brought to justice.Seriously, how crazy can an owner be? Let's find out.

#1 Massimo Cellino, Leeds United

Who is he? 

Massimo Cellino is an Italian businessman and the head of a corn-manufacturing company. He is the current owner of Leeds United. Before setting his sights on Leeds United, Cellino previously owned Italian club Cagliari. 

What’s his crazy claim-to-fame?

Where to begin? For starters, Cellino has a deep-rooted hatred of the number 17. So much so that he had all the seats at Cagliari’s stadium with the number ‘17’ replaced with the number ‘16b’, and there is a proposal to do the same at Elland Road too. He is also scared of the colour purple. 

That’s right. The owner of a football club, a multi-millionaire and self-made man, is scared of a colour. 

Cellino also has two prior criminal convictions, one for embezzling 7.5 million pounds from the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and the other for false accounting while he was the owner of Cagliari.

After taking over Leeds, the first thing that Cellino noticed was the club’s annual wage bill – 18 million pounds. So he proceeded to do what any smart businessman would – cut costs. Only, the costs that he cut involved players having to pay for having their football kits washed. The players were also told that they would have to pay for their own lunch!

Oh, and he also hired and fired 36 coaches in 22 years at Cagliari. Clearly this can only end well for Leeds.