Financial Mismanagement seems almost fashionable. . .

[Sam-]

Seems to be the latest fashion in football these days to have some kind of financial mismanagement.

Rangers, Port Vale, Portsmouth, Kettering are the obvious current strugglers.
Some ominous signs coming from Coventry as well.
Never seen a stadium so empty as when i watched the highlights of Middlesborough's last home game.

Everton also struggling for money . . . They'll be fine i'm sure though.

Perhaps I am too young to remember all the old problems as the only two I remember from the past being my old beloved Wimbledon and the Seagulls.
What other cases of financial problems can you guys remember? Which has been the worst?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Both Sheffied clubs and Wolves have been down to the 4th division and Middlesboro were locked out of their Ayesome Park ground and I think they had to play at Darlo.

Buildin a £5m new stand at Chelsea almost sank them during the kate 70's.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bradford City ... two periods of administration, since they fell out of the Premiership in 2001 and started the slide down to the bottom end of League Two.

 

[house your seagull]

Manchester United!

In the tunnel at OT there's a portrait of a guy who saved the club from bankruptcy in the 1920s I think, not sure.

 

[house your seagull]

Oh, Maidstone started building a new ground last week I think. It's the first time they have played in Maidstone since 1988, and when they were thrown out of the league in 1992 (the last team to go bankrupt) they were playing in Dartford.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

... and, of course, Newport County - who went bankrupt mid-way through the 1988/89 season, only to be re-formed as Newport AFC, to play in the Hellenic League at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire (which is further from Newport than Gillingham is from Brighton). Hopefully, they'll be at Wembley in May.

 

[British Grenadier]

Aldershot?