Well put.... I can't add more except this is an other example where the ordinary supporters are manipulated by those who make money out of what was a sport for the participants.. As in Boxing and a plethora of other sports.. A further victim of the market forces world we live in..
Surely an owner has got to at least know who or what they are taking over - the guy at Bury didn't even know they had a team and seemed to buy it was a favour for others. I mean sure they don't need to be rabid football fans but have to at least take an interest because the game isn't like other business which are black and white.
I actually think there is very little wrong with English football.You cannot TOTALLY legislate for clubs hellbent on running in such a reckless and unsustainable manner as Bury and Bolton.
I think that what we are dealing with has little to do with football, but often about trying to obtain ownership of a bit of valuable land. Already people are asking Bury council to protect the ground against it being turned into a housing estate. It has happened before and will no doubt happen again, but it is up to the football authorities to protect the clubs from getting into the hands of the money grabbing speculators.
Agreed, looking back it seems amazing how Bankrupt Baz was allowed to be so involved at Watford. Who the hell was involved with due diligence????
Interesting comment from Greg Dyke saying he is surprised not more clubs have gone under. He says lower league clubs are spending far too much on players. Pretty obvious really.
Surely sadly too late for Bury ? https://www.skysports.com/football/...uy-club-and-calls-on-efl-to-rescind-expulsion
I think that the FL knew about it, but didn't think it was a serious bid. It seems that every pile of invoices due for payment simply were used to cover up another heap.
Not wishing to combine politics with football here - not really But what influence could a hard Bojo driven Brexit have on the Premier League ? The Premier League relies on the free movement of people and 40% of its players are EU citizens. According to a well known analytics site over half of the EU players that transferred to the Prem. since 1992 would not have qualified for a work permit at the time of their transfer - including Gianfranco Zola and Cesc Fabregas. What might the effects on us be ? We also do not know what travel arrangements would exist for both fans and players after a hard Brexit. Another interesting point is that the Bosman ruling was made by the ECJ - that legal precedent could cease to exist if the UK. crashes out of Europe. Just a few points for Brexiteers to consider - not wishing, of course, to be provocative here
Hopefully I can answer with a bit knowledge after the 31st October. I suggest the EPL is immediately prorogued and made to start the season again from scratch.
Good news for Bolton and a damming statement about the previous owners : https://www.bwfc.co.uk/news/2019/au...artners-administrators-for-bolton-wanderers3/
A funny thought crossed my mind, that if Bassini stood as the Tory candidate for Berko SH would vote for him. Still enough of that. It is good news that a way around the problems created by Anderson and Bassini have been resolved, and the sale of Bolton has gone ahead. It will be interesting to see how the two protagonists square up to each other in court next week. Neither of them should ever be allowed near a football club again.
I don't understand how someone like Bassini, with his past shenanigans and 3 year ban could ever be deemed a fit and proper person to run an ice cream van, let alone a football club
Bassini has a hazy relationship with the truth, but if you see some of the con men at work you realize how they take in the desperate. Over the past few weeks some Bolton fans actually thought he would be better than going out of business. A few Watford fans signed up to the Bolton Newspaper to tell them not to be so silly. People who are having a rough time of it will listen and hope that snake oil salesmen like him will improve their lives.
That is the problem Mark It was started when the so called Big Clubs forced through a change in the rules which meant that gate receipts for league games were not shared The same so called Big Clubs now want even more of the revenue generated from Sky They all forget that without the smaller clubs there is no young British talent coming through, Liverpool for example got some of their, if not most of their greatest players from lower league clubs, Man United were different in that a lot of their top players, The Busby Babes came through their juniors or were recruited from the lower leagues and then brought through to the first team from the juniors Remember the days when Watford used to do that
Last night Brandon Lewis was playing for Coventry. Someone has been taking note of the number of ex-Watford youngsters who have made it through to league clubs at whatever level, and it is actually very few. Didn't we actually win the FA youth cup in 1982?
