Power ballad Marinakis calls the tune at Forest - but what exactly is the owner's endgame?

And let's be real, we're not getting that from Avram Glazer any time soon.

- Jonathan Liew

Evangelos Marinakis is by no means the first Premier League owner labouring under the impression that his skilled business acumen automatically confers him a certain genius in other fields. Nor is he the first owner with pretensions to artistry and cultural influence. Even so, it takes a particular rarefied level of hubris to write a literal pop single for a literal pop singer, a single recorded and released with what is quite a sexy video (mercifully, not featuring Marinakis).

"Marinakis, he does what he wants," Nottingham Forest fans sang earlier this season, as the club's courtroom battle over Crystal Palace's Europa League place reached its bitter climax. And a few years ago what Marinakis wanted was to write the theme song to the Greek TV drama Exapsi, being screened on his Mega TV channel. Nobody would have thought any less of him had he chosen not to do this. Nobody would have quibbled had he decided to leave the job to a more experienced lyricist. But in music, as in football, and shipping, and politics, and philanthropy, Big Vange is a character who very much likes to be across things.