[Football] Bolton game postponed...

[Easy 10]

Charlton's owners didn't have a good record and Blackpool's previous owner was a convicted rapist. I believe the Leeds chairman had dodgy dealings in Italy (or was that the previous one?)

Duchatelet at Charlton is a millionaire businessman, I'm not aware of any financial skeletons in his cupboard. And whilst the fans don't LIKE the way he runs the club, their existence has not been in jeopardy under him, to my knowledge.

Oyston is an odious shit and a vile human being, but does serving time for rape preclude someone from owning a football club ? What if he launched a legal challenge against the EFL for blocking him from buying Blackpool FC - on what legal grounds could the EFL successfully defend their position ?

The EFL eventually got Cellino disqualified from Leeds Utd, due to him facing tax evasion charges in Italy.

If a businessman has bankruptcies / insolvencies in his past then that should prevent him from owning a football club, so if the guy at Bury has that in his background then the EFL should have blocked his takeover. But if he was the only player in town to buy the club and take on the debt, and the alternative to Bury was administration, then it leaves the EFL in a very difficult position. Of course its all gone south now anyway, but was it obvious or inevitable when he first rocked up ?

Tricky one.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Phil Parkinson has just resigned as manager. Bury and Bolton two of the oldest club's on the brink. Its appalling its allowed to happen.

 

[Sue1983]

Phil Parkinson has just resigned as manager. Bury and Bolton two of the oldest club's on the brink. Its appalling its allowed to happen.

This.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Phil Parkinson has just resigned as manager. Bury and Bolton two of the oldest club's on the brink. Its appalling its allowed to happen.

Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Everton, all within that location whilst they spunk £200k+ a week on one persons wages. Surely any of them could make a guarantor on these clubs in some form? Even if after they dump the owners flushing them down the drain.

 

[Springal]

Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Everton, all within that location whilst they spunk £200k+ a week on one persons wages. Surely any of them could make a guarantor on these clubs in some form? Even if after they dump the owners flushing them down the drain.

Where do you draw the line? Do you want Tony Bloom to also prop up any club in Sussex in financial difficulties. Sadly football is a business and they need to be well run and well managed. If they save Bolton then what about the next time or the next club?

 

[Easy 10]

Where do you draw the line? Do you want Tony Bloom to also prop up any club in Sussex in financial difficulties. Sadly football is a business and they need to be well run and well managed. If they save Bolton then what about the next time or the next club?

Exactly.

Its a very romantic idea for PL clubs to bail out clubs such as Bury and Bolton, but there's a reason they're up shit creek - they've both been very, very badly run. Bolton have been a complete basket case ever since they dropped out of the PL, and Bury brought in a bunch of players who got them promoted, but who ultimately they couldn't actually afford to pay, and its ruined them.

Sympathy for the fans, its not their fault. But neither is it the fault of the PL clubs. I didn't see much sympathy on here for Pompey or Leeds when it went belly-up at those clubs. Premier League bail-outs would only encourage MORE unscrupulous owners at these clubs, if they know that ultimately their recklessness might just get paid for by somebody else.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Yes football’s a business, but it’s also a tradition and part of the social fabric of many towns throughout the Uk. Let’s not forget that we were also once up “sh1t creek” - “very very badly run” and a “ complete basket case”. In those dark days we were desperate for a shining knight to save us. Never forget what our club went through - I feel desperately sad for the likes of Bury, Bolton and others.

 

[Invicta]

The ex Bolton chairman spent years trying to end relegation from the Premier League so he could stay on the gravy train. Argued it would ruin clubs that got relegated. He was right.

 

[Ernest]

The ex Bolton chairman spent years trying to end relegation from the Premier League so he could stay on the gravy train. Argued it would ruin clubs that got relegated. He was right.

And he wanted to pull up the bridge to make it a closed shop so teams like us would never have got promoted so I think they've got what they deserved and why should teams help them when they wanted to keep the money for themselves.

Karma is a bitch , sorry for their fans but didn't see them helping out other teams when they were in the PL or telling Garside to wind his neck in

 

[Driver8]

Bolton's EFL future under renewed threat after takeover deal collapses http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49470865

 

[studio150]

Unfortunately looks like League One will be a 22 team competition this season

 

[Albion my Albion]

OK, three more to Tranmere would be a bit too much! 3-0 to Doncaster.

I'd go 3-0 to Doncaster and 6-0 to Tranmere, just for having the name Tranmere. They already have to endure the name trannys

 

[Nobby]

Sh*t. This is terrible. Founder member of the League.
Premier League riches cost them dear.

Once again, there but for the grace......

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sh*t. This is terrible. Founder member of the League.
Premier League riches cost them dear.

Once again, there but for the grace......

I presume it was more the deployment of the riches rather than the riches themselves.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Sh*t. This is terrible. Founder member of the League.
Premier League riches cost them dear.

Once again, there but for the grace......

Dont forget, the chairman at the time wanted the Premier League to be a closed shop.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Would this and potentially Bury mean no relegation from the football league and two up from National League?

 

[Ernest]

Dont forget, the chairman at the time wanted the Premier League to be a closed shop.

Exactly and at that time we would have been one of the ones on the outside, they have simply spent too much and now have to face the consequences that is FFP

 

[Ernest]

Would this and potentially Bury mean no relegation from the football league and two up from National League?

Should still be 2 out of the league and 4 up from the conference otherwise the League 2 becomes meaningless at the bottom and time for some new blood

 

[Hampster Gull]

Should still be 2 out of the league and 4 up from the conference otherwise the League 2 becomes meaningless at the bottom and time for some new blood

That’s my preference also

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Dont forget, the chairman at the time wanted the Premier League to be a closed shop.

Don't forget, we had a bad chairman once who sold us down the river. Don't forget the 150 laid off including my brother in law who will find it hard to get another job.