Henry Norris owned Fulham FC, Arsenal FC and Croydon Common FC. Why? How?

By the summer of 1910 Henry Norris owned three football clubs: Woolwich Arsenal (division 1), Fulham (division 2) and Croydon Common (Southern League). What was he doing?  Well, it seems he thought of himself as the man who could build football in the south of England into something as powerful as the football league in …