A successful businessman not only after his playing career but during it, Lee could not resist the idea of buying his way back into the club where he had won domestic and European honours in a bid to restore it to its former glory in the 1990s.
However, the Forward with Franny movement sent the club tumbling out of the Premier League and they were relegated down to the Third Division shortly after he resigned in 1998.
Lee’s time in charge was marked by a series of managerial failures, from replacing popular coach Brian Horton with Alan Ball to hiring Steve Coppell only to see him resign after just 33 days.
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