Well its a pretty sad day today around this neck of the woods. Bury FC is no more. Its difficult to see how a man who nonchelantly made the following statement to Five Live
“I never went to Bury…so for me to walk away from Bury and never go back is a very easy thing to do…I didn’t even know there was a football team called Bury. I’m not a football fan.”
to be deemed a ‘fit and proper person’ to run a football club by the EFL absolutely beggers belief, particularly when they’ve a string of failed businesses behind them and a reputation as an asset stripper.
Its going to be interesting to see what comes out about the clubs finances now. To say that the financing of the club that Dale put in place was dubious seems like something of an understaement. The guys who looked to buy it said they’d never seen ‘financial structures’ anything like it, but it was clearly not economically viable. It seems like the ground is now owned by some sort of opaque offshore trust
And Bolton is nearly gone too. A club that was in the Premiership and Europe not too long back, with another dodgy and shameless owner. Mrs Binners is a lifelong Bolton fan and I think, like most, seems to be resigned to them going the same way as Bury.
It all puts our Premiership-level whinging in perspective, but then the club I support is also owned by a bunch of chancers who don’t give a toss about it as long as the money keep rolling in. When you’ve got the same principles appliesd to the lower league clubs I suspect there will be more potential expulsions in the offing