Model vs Medals: Why Brighton and Crystal Palace are quietly jealous of each other

The Manchester City scandal has provoked debate over wider ownership issues in English football. Where once it was common for clubs to be controlled by a boyhood fan, that has become much rarer in an era of nation-states and American private equity. Only four of the Premier League’s 20 teams are led by people known to have grown up supporting them. Two are Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace , the arch-rivals who will renew hostilities at the Amex Stadium on Sunday (the others are Manchester United , where Sir Jim Ratcliffe runs football operations despite owning just over…