Not only that but the rags got the swamp free of charge thanks to their first sugar daddy John Henry Davies footing the entire cost of contsruction out of his own pocket. The club didn't pay a penny in construction costs.
Then their second sugar daddy James Gibson lobbied incessantly, calling in favours from politician friends with no doubt brown envelopes changing hands, for the government to foot the bill for rebuilding the bomb damaged parts of the swamp. The government ended up paying that cost and even paid for the cost of removing the rubble before reconstruction started. All this at a time of severe post war austerity and hardship.