As hordes of Fleetwood Town fans swarmed on to the pitch to celebrate their astonishing victory over Premier League champions Arsenal on Tuesday night, the local millionaire who had made it all possible wasn’t there.
Sharp-elbowed businessman Andy Pilley, who bought the tiny Lancashire club for buttons when it was so broke it couldn’t pay the players’ wages, was 14 miles away – in His Majesty’s Prison Kirkham.
Sources tell me he was permitted to listen to the match on the radio, and ‘danced around his cell’ as 19-year-old Conor Haughey scored the penalty that sent the mighty Gunners, whose squad cost
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