(CNN) -- Last Wednesday, in a move that I still don't fully understand, I became a shareholder in the Spanish football club Real Oviedo. In terms of my relationship with football, I should probably lay my cards on the table. I am a Nottingham Forest fan. Anyone of a certain age with a passing interest in the game will understand that I'm familiar with disappointment. Having watched Forest fall from the heights of back-to-back European Cup wins to the depths of English football's third tier I know, all too well, the emotions involved in witnessing a distressing decline. This doubtless explains why some sense of faded glamour or a struggle against adversity tends to attract me to a club. To illustrate this point, my favorite Italian team is Sampdoria, currently lying 14th in Serie A. Winning, as they say, isn't everything.
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Why would a Nottingham Forest fan invest $52 in third-tier Spanish club Real Oviedo?
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Jonathan Hawkins interest in Oviedo piqued by British journalist Sid Lowe
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Hawkins bought four shares allowing him to attend Oviedo's annual general meeting
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The third division club had had until November 17 to avoid extinction
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