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HMRC v. Bradford Park Avenue
Posted on July 5, 2010
Latest club (joining Grays Athletic, Ilkeston Town, Preston North End and Southend United) to receiving a winding-up petition from HMRC is Northern Premier League club Bradford Park Avenue (1). The club is a resurrection club, having been formed in 1977 following the demise of the eponymous erstwhile Football League club in 1974. At the time […]
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HMRC Winding-Up Petitions
Posted on February 23, 2012
The following list is of the winding-up petitions presented by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and its predecessors, the Internal Revenue (IR) who were responsible for the collection of direct taxation such as income tax (PAYE) and National Insurance contributions, and HM Customs and Excise (C&E) who were responsible for the collection of indirect taxation […]
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No. of Clubs
Posted on February 13, 2012
I’m sometimes asked for a magic number – the number of top clubs which have gone into Administration. It’s difficult give a simple answer because: Administration is a misleading basis for counting. Clubs can be wound up without ever going into Administration. A better measure is ‘insolvency event’, a term which can however be defined […]
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The joy that was, and may yet again be, the Abbey Stadium
Posted on January 18, 2011
Perhaps not the obvious stadium to refer to as a ‘joy’, but it has a special place in my personal history. My very first football-related memory is of being driven along the Newmarket Road as a child aged about 4 years and suddenly catching sight of this enticing building. Yes, it was oddly enticing. Frequent […]
Posted in Assets, Benefactors, Insolvency, Investors, Ownership, Stadium, Trusts | 6 Comments »
Club round-up
Posted on July 29, 2010
A variety of snippets of insolvency and related news. Readers unfamiliar with events at particular clubs should use the Quick Club Links in the left side bar for postings passim. Ashford Town (Kent) Today’s the day of the Administration hearing (1) and a resolution (?) of the confrontation between Don Crosbie and Tony Betteridge, co-owners […]
Posted in Debts, HMRC, Insolvency | 7 Comments »
Ups and Downs 1
Posted on April 7, 2010
Like virtually every football fan, there is really only one football result each week that matters to me personally – I have to know it almost as the whistle blows (thankfully possible in the age that we live in). The rest I could easily wait to read in the Sunday papers. With my particular perspective […]
Posted in Promotion, Pyramid movement, Relegation | 6 Comments »
The last League club to fold
Posted on January 12, 2010
As things look grim down South (and to a lesser extent to the West), there has been some memory-scratching going on – which was the last League club to fold? I’ve heard this dubious distinction being awarded to Accrington Stanley with respect to Football League clubs. Stanley resigned from the old Division 4 in March […]
Posted in History, Insolvency | 3 Comments »
