Morecombe FC

[Sarnia Cherie]

I don't like to see a football club on it's knees. I really feel for those staff members who have being going in to revamp the changing rooms, relay the turf and are doing their best to keep things ticking over and hoping there will still ( now where have I heard that recently? ) be for a future for their club. No wages have been paid since May so many of the staff have had no choice but to leave. Even a small football club going will take a big part of the community with it. 

[badgerx16]

The owner is a complete chancer and fraud, who was also responsible for Worcester rugby club going under;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c860979gg64o

 

The first game our kids actually saw Le Tiss in the flesh was when Dave Jones brought a Saints team up to play at their old ground to mark the opening of the Bobby Charlton stand. 

Edited August 5 by badgerx16

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, badgerx16 said:

The owner is a complete chancer and fraud, who was also responsible for Worcester rugby club going under;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c860979gg64o

I come off the M5 regularly to go to Malvern and see their stadium (Worcester’s) just off that junction. They’ve re-started the rugby club in the Championship but a tortuous process to get there even with new owners. Quite a big stadium too and weird to see it there not used.

EFL and PL are a shambles with due diligence - witness the mess with Saints and Gao - and much stronger powers to take clubs into admin and out of the hands of shysters to preserve them even if they drop a division or so in the process. Wednesday are another case in point. 

Call me cynical, but I can’t see a football regulator being a panacea.

Edited August 5 by Gloucester Saint