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The descent of Grays Athletic
Posted on May 28, 2010
As I said in my last blog post Appendix E: Tough Love for Salisbury City?, Grays Athletic face a rather worse fate rather than straightforward relegation to the Conference South. It’s a depressing tale, and one can’t help feeling it was an accident waiting to happen to a club. The club had faced and survived […]
Posted in Benefactors, Football Association, Football Conference, Governance, Pyramid movement, Relegation, Stadium, Trusts | 1 Comment »
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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2011 – The Year in Insolvency Events
Posted on December 31, 2011
Below is a round-up of the insolvency events I have logged during 2011. The definition of insolvency event is a debatable one, and I prefer a descriptive rather than prescriptive one. Broadly I would define an insolvency event as one which reflects a discontinuity in the operation of the ‘club as company’ caused by insufficient […]
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A day of reckoning
Posted on May 23, 2011
I managed to follow the great play-off between AFC Wimbledon (to whom, many congratulations) and Luton Town (to whom, commiserations) at least live online. Football at its most exciting. I wonder if Andy Burnham chose quite the right words though when he tweeted “Wimbledon back in Football League. Brilliant. A great victory for all football […]
Posted in Broadcasting rights, Costs, Economic impact, Fans, Football Conference, Governance, Merchandising, Premier League, Promotion, Pyramid movement, Relegation, Revenues, Sponsorship | 2 Comments »
Nelson the latest to fold?
Posted on July 18, 2010
According to a report in The Lancashire Telegraph (1) Nelson “has folded“. They have resigned from North West Counties Football League, and their website (2) has gone down. Whether there are things happening behind the scene to allow them to ‘do a Grays’ or if there are plans forn AFC Nelson I don’t know – […]
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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 […]
Posted in Debts, HMRC, Insolvency, Stadium | 3 Comments »
HMRC’s latest activity and other traumas
Posted on July 1, 2010
You keep off the internet for the best part of ten days, come home, and, bingo! HMRC have been at it again. First they’ve been revisiting some familiar league faces: Grays Athletic The club has been given a stay of execution of 98 (yes, that’s right, 98) days over the undisclosed debt to HMRC debt […]
Posted in Benefactors, Debts, HMRC, Insolvency | 12 Comments »
The continuing Kettering saga
Posted on May 30, 2010
The descent of Grays Athletic must have struck a worrying chord with Kettering fans. Back in January I blogged on their tribulations (under Kettering Town and the Enigmatic Imraan Ladack) in finding somewhere to play as the lease on their stadium comes to a conclusion, and will not be renewed. He had at that point […]
Posted in Assets, Benefactors, Ownership, Stadium | 2 Comments »
Appendix E: Tough Love for Salisbury City?
Posted on May 23, 2010
This is the time of year that anorakies like me start to change our data files to reflect the promotions and relegations which are about to take place officially. If you think that is already a straightforward task, barring the odd play-off final, then you are forgetting what is happening in the Conference and lower […]
Posted in Debts, Football Association, Football Conference, Governance, HMRC | 4 Comments »
Chester City case continues causing Conference chaos
Posted on August 8, 2009
Latest development in this depressing saga is that the FA have in effect over-ruled the Conference – going ahead with the first match Chester are due to play, against Grays, would be a breach of FA rules (1) and it therefore now off. To me, there are three issues here: The issue of club v. […]
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