'I'd Like to Do Lots of Things at City - but I'm a Realist' ; so Who Is Richard Smith, the Newest and Least-Known Member of Stoke City's Board of Directors? Martin Spinks Went to Meet the Man Who Is Far More Than Just the Son-in-Law of Chairman Peter Coates.

Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › March 28, 2010

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HE KNEW the question was coming sooner or later, and he probably knew it would be sneakily buried half-way through the interview.

So will the chairman's sonin-law, having recently been invited on to Stoke City's board of directors by the chairman himself, ever vote against the chairman? There's a wry smile on the face of Richard Smith, the affable and impressive newcomer to the club's inner sanctum.

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'I'd Like to Do Lots of Things at City - but I'm a Realist' ; so Who Is Richard Smith, the Newest and Least-Known Member of Stoke City's Board of Directors? Martin Spinks Went to Meet the Man Who Is Far More Than Just the Son-in-Law of Chairman Peter Coates.

He tactfully says: "Well, I don't think we would ever get to the point where we would be voting against each other."

So do we simply have a yes man raising his arm every time the chairman's hand so much as twitches on the boardroom t...

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