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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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Insolvency overview
Posted on November 15, 2009
Three weeks is a long time in football management – it was only on 25 October that I posted my last overview. Previous ‘overviews’ can be accessed by clicking on the ‘Overviews’ tag at the top of the page. With a number of clubs things have become clearer, but for many the confusion has just […]
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Administrations review
Posted on October 25, 2009
With several court appearances due to consider various aspects of insolvency at different clubs, now seemed a good time to take a broad look at clubs that have been in trouble recently: Bournemouth Bournemouth has been well covered in postings passim. £150,000 is due to HMRC but the club’s bank account remains frozen. Eddie Mitchell […]
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Supporters Trusts v. Benefactors
Posted on October 14, 2009
There is an interesting piece in today’s Guardian (1), welcome not least because it promotes the Supporters Direct Conference at the NEC this Friday. I’m attending and it would be great to meet up with any readers who are attending too (there’s a photo of me on the About tag for those who haven’t met […]
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Review of Season 2008/09
Posted on August 4, 2009
This was not one of the great season’s from a management perspective. It is best summed up by a (slightly misleading) headline from the BBC this very morning – English club finances worry UEFA. Their worries are to do specifically with the Premier League clubs; mine have extended way down the football pyramid for several […]
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Just how many more?
Posted on June 2, 2009
Anyone who knows me will confirm that I am not by nature a pessimist – a cynic maybe, but not a pessimist. Reviewing my data on insolvency events offers little to encourage any optimism however. I have to date logged 107 insolvency events involving 88 clubs since 1982. 10 have been this season; 8 have […]
Posted in Benefactors, Debts, Insolvency, Ownership, Stadium | 2 Comments »
