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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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Nepotism attempts to rear its ugly head again
Posted on November 13, 2009
Regular readers will recall how Eddie Mitchell was reported to be the author of several emails to Weymouth offering them £5,000 to take on his son Tom as a player (1). Mitchell dismissed the emails as an elaborate forgery. He, of course, had famously tried to leave his sons in charge at Dorchester Town when […]
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Farsley Celtic 1 : HMRC 2 L
Posted on June 28, 2009
Farsley Celtic are in deep, deep trouble, for reasons which I partly sympathise with, but which are partly of their own making. The glory years for Celtic have been very recent – promotions in 2004, 2006 and 2007 under Lee Sinnott, who then moved onwards and upwards to Port Vale (1). Suffering from Gretna Syndrome, […]
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