The Milwaukee Brewers winning the franchise’s first World Series has to give Norwich City fans some much-needed hope as their team languishes in England’s second division.
Mark Attanasio, the 69-year-old former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker, is the controlling owner of both teams, and he’s applying the same scientific-based template to the middling English soccer club that he used with the Brewers. The situations are strikingly similar with Milwaukee and Norwich City both being afterthoughts for much of their existence in sports where they are massively outspent.?
But how much patience Norwich supporters have remains to be seen. Attanasio, who made his fortune in debt investing and cofounded Crescent Capital in 1991 after leaving Drexel, bought the Brewers from Bud Selig in early 2005 for roughly $225 million, and it took about 15 years to become a perennial championship contender.
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