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steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Aveley, East Thurrock (RIP), Grays Athletic, Tilbury, Thurrock (RIP) all within a very concentrated few square miles. You may have a point!
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
Seems more like the proposed new investors discovered a load of historic debt that had been concealed from them. Much as I liked East Thurrock and our trips there it seemed that their success of recent years might have been built on sand.
No idea if it's true but I've seen a suggestion they made money out of an FA Cup run, committed it to contracts and then had to repay the prize money as an ineligible player was discovered.
As I say, no idea if it's true but if so, the overspend may genuinely be accidental. Rather unusually for non-league.
As I say, no idea if it's true but if so, the overspend may genuinely be accidental. Rather unusually for non-league.
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
I’d be very surprised if that is true as East Thurrock’s best runs in the FA Cup were nearly a decade ago reaching the first round in 2014/15 and 2011/12. I’m struggling to find any mention of them being penalised in that competition for fielding an ineligible player. Indeed the only reference I see to an ineligible player is in the 2007/08 season when a one point deduction was enough to get them relegated to Isthmian D1N.
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
What I genuinely struggle to believe is that such debts were not known at the time of the takeover and were too huge to be absorbed by a multimillionaire (net worth £341m according to the Sunday Times) property developer specialising in holiday camps… oh!
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
The following statement in regards to East Thurrock has been posted on Facebook by outgoing chairman Steve Wiseman.
“This is a personal statement from me (Steve Wiseman)
We, I include some very close friends, volunteers who have come forward, all of our supporters, friends, families, just about everyone in the area.
All of us have tried to keep this great local club playing football for our community, unfortunately we now find ourselves in a situation where we are unable to continue or function.
I would like to point out that at this moment in time we do not owe anyone, individually or companies any monies.
This liquidation has been forced upon(verbally) I might add. At present we are as a club not in debt to anyone.
We were self sufficient, as per our owners wishes and apperantly was agreed.
We were purchased by others,who I thought had the best intentions for the club and the community.
They obviously had to think of its commercial value as well, pretty sure everyone would agree with that.
We are a club with no debt, owned by a billionaire, run by someone who to my knowledge was a nephew of our owner Ben who came from no where when he passed away.
We are now going into liquidation, so I’m told due to historical debts.
We were and are very capable of paying anything that is owed to anyone since we volunteered to keep the club running.
To exonerate myself and all the others that tried to keep this great club afloat, we had no knowledge of any if this.
All I Know is Karma is a wonderful thing.
My life was saved 2 months ago.
God kept me here for a reason.”
“This is a personal statement from me (Steve Wiseman)
We, I include some very close friends, volunteers who have come forward, all of our supporters, friends, families, just about everyone in the area.
All of us have tried to keep this great local club playing football for our community, unfortunately we now find ourselves in a situation where we are unable to continue or function.
I would like to point out that at this moment in time we do not owe anyone, individually or companies any monies.
This liquidation has been forced upon(verbally) I might add. At present we are as a club not in debt to anyone.
We were self sufficient, as per our owners wishes and apperantly was agreed.
We were purchased by others,who I thought had the best intentions for the club and the community.
They obviously had to think of its commercial value as well, pretty sure everyone would agree with that.
We are a club with no debt, owned by a billionaire, run by someone who to my knowledge was a nephew of our owner Ben who came from no where when he passed away.
We are now going into liquidation, so I’m told due to historical debts.
We were and are very capable of paying anything that is owed to anyone since we volunteered to keep the club running.
To exonerate myself and all the others that tried to keep this great club afloat, we had no knowledge of any if this.
All I Know is Karma is a wonderful thing.
My life was saved 2 months ago.
God kept me here for a reason.”
KentyinWeardale
Active Member
The statement that the Isthmian League put on their site announcing the liquidation has now disappeared, make of that what you will
Pink Panther
Well-Known Member
Sounds a bit like some of the crap Meadow threw at the Hamlet after they handed over the running of the club, claiming DHFC was in debt to them for a shed load of money they'd chosen to spend even though we were breaking even on a month to month basis.
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
Too early to comment but Enfield have just released the following statement. Statement: Board of Directors - Enfield Football Club
Ian Torkington
New Member
FC United of Manchester fan checking in. We've Warrington Rylands at home in the FA Cup on saturday. They're ahead of us in the league, but we've won 5 out of 5 at home this season
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
How the women’s team getting on this season? Guested for them in pre season against Clapton CFC as they’d lost a lot of players in the close season after losing the manager despite being promoted.
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
Another Essex club in trouble Row erupts between football clubs as council prepares for Cricklefields vote
Ian Torkington
New Member
I was there that day ! Wonderful hospitality
The previous manager left and took most of the team with him to Wythenshawe. We recruited a new manager and were more than pleasantly pleased with her CV and contacts
FC United Welcomes Jennie Swarbrick as Women’s Team Manager and Community Manager
FC United of Manchester - News Story
fc-utd.co.uk
Losing your entire team a couple of weeks before the season started (and being in a higher division) was a challenge to say the least and 5 games in we've secured just 1 point and let in 20. Onwards and upwards !
Pink Panther
Well-Known Member
Is this guy any worse than Glen Tamplin and countless other shysters who've spent money that wasn't really theirs, before leaving a trail of destruction in their wake? (Ron Martin at Southend for starters.) I always struggle to pick the bones out of stories like this, but Tamplin denied us the Isthmian League championship with his gratuitous spending on players wages, whilst liquidating a series of companies owing £millions to creditors who will never see that money.
Taper
Mark McGann
I give you Munto and my own Notts County. Notts County and the bizarre takeover of 2009
Pink Panther
Well-Known Member
That was a spectacularly bizarre and mercifully brief episode.
Paula_G
Flitting in & out like Tinkerbell on Meth
Norwich United: Hold my pint!! Scandal-hit Norwich United QUIT football league following controversy
scousedom
Well-Known Member
Am very into all the pics in that article looking like they’ve been taken by someone hiding in the undergrowth.
EDC
A Slightly Less Invisible Cyber Fan These Days
Mr. Colourblind here but to me his shirt is the same as the rest of the team.
Pink Panther
Well-Known Member
It's slightly more purple than the rest of the team, but still far too close a match. I don't understand why this happens so often. It never used to. Referees should be telling these teams to find another shirt.
How did that forward manage to head the rebound straight at the keeper next to the post with the whole of the rest of the goal to aim at?
Hamlet Pete
Well-Known Member
They're 3-0 up so the ground should be empty by now
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