RIP Chester City

[Storer68]

Chester City FC: Chester City expelled from the Football Conference
Feb 26 2010 By Alec Doyle


Chester City FC

CHESTER City have been expelled from the Football Conference in a vote by the league’s member clubs.

No-one at the club was available for comment this afternoon.

City Fans United’s initial reaction to the news was one of sadness.

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"This is a sad day in the history of the football club," said CFU spokesman Jeff Banks.

"But the right decision was made. Conference chairmen have looked at the bigger picture and seen that this was the best way forward for the football club.

"We must now continue with our plans to form a new football club in the city."

Barrie Hipkiss, once a player at the club and a fan for more than 60 years, said he was devastated.

"This is the last thing I wanted to see happen," he said. "I feel for the players, the youngsters, the groundstaff, Tony Allen the secretary, because this is a bad day for them.

"I spoke to Bob Gray earlier and he said he was sure tomorrow’s game against Oxford would be on but he was looking at pounds, shillings and pence.

"I would have liked to see the club survive but realistically I could not see us fulfilling our fixtures and that was the key point.

"I have also lost a lot of respect for Stephen Vaughan. I volunteered at the club and gave a lot to it and he then comes out and calls the fans idiots.

"That didn’t go down very well and if he’s calling me an idiot, well, he’s lost my respect."

 

[Captain Haddock]

Not much national coverage of this as they are not premier league. The football world is too busy with Pompey, John Terry and Wayne Bridge.

Yup! Same old same old, I'm afraid.

I wish Chester all the best and hope they can bounce back from their seemingly endless troubles.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

RIP Chester City.

 

[brakespear]

used to go to Chester a lot because my gran lives near there, nice place, always had a soft spot for Chester City

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Chester have decided not to appeal against the expulsion and their results have officially been expunged

 

[Storer68]

That is sad.

As I said on another thread, I was there ten years ago when we beat them 7 - 1.

Nice place Chester, except for the ground and the gobby scousers that seem to work in every pub.

(got a feeling that's where Zamorra made his debut for us on loan and scored three)

Zamora's first appearance for us was as a substitute against Plymouth Argyle (the week before the Chester game) and he did score for us.

His first start for us was at Chester. (And I woz there!)

 

[cliveh27]

Interesting article on the resurgence of football in Chester and the foresight/determination of the fans there:
BBC - Newsbeat - What happens when a football club goes bust?
I wonder what Portsmouth's new name would be ...

 

[Horsham Gull]

so they were readmitted one division up from county league

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system#The_system

 

[Muzzy]

Great City to visit as long as it doesn't involve footy! RIP Chester City FC.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Went to the old Sealand Road ground and saw Fred Binney have half the length of the pitch to run at the Chester keeper. Of course that gave him too much time to think and he shot weekly straight at the keeper. Probably from being knackered as well by the time he got there. I think they had Larry May in their team that day. Anyway we lost 3-0

 

[Driver8]

I got chatting to a Chester City supporter as I was checking out of the hotel I stayed at near Doncaster last week. He spotted my Albion bag and showed me his Chester one! They had been playing nearby (and won 3-1) and he was fairly positive about things. He said he had been cheering us on v Wrexham!

I don't think it will be too long before they are back at Conference/League 2 level.

 

[BensGrandad]

I remember watching us play Chester at The Goldstone and remember their manager was Alan Oakes ex Man City player cant remember a lot about the game except that I was very impressed with the way they played. Oakes obviously realised their capability so they played everything very simple and professionally and were very affective.

 

[Mileoakman]

I remember watching us play Chester at The Goldstone and remember their manager was Alan Oakes ex Man City player cant remember a lot about the game except that I was very impressed with the way they played. Oakes obviously realised their capability so they played everything very simple and professionally and were very affective.

I also remember playing them at the Goldstone. One of their Directors was Terry Scott of Terry & June fame. He spent the whole game standing up in the Directors Box loudly abusing every Albion supporter within earshot. Non stop verbals for the full 90 minutes. Must be almost 30 years ago but I've never fogotten it.

 

[mona]

I also remember playing them at the Goldstone. One of their Directors was Terry Scott of Terry & June fame. He spent the whole game standing up in the Directors Box loudly abusing every Albion supporter within earshot. Non stop verbals for the full 90 minutes. Must be almost 30 years ago but I've never fogotten it.

That's an interesting bit of info. Scott was from Surrey so his first love must surely have been Sodhurst and its (in those days) grass bank terraces.

 

[The Modfather]

Shame. Great place & great memories of the 2-2 draw up there back in the late eighties

 

[Brovion]

Shame. Great place & great memories of the 2-2 draw up there back in the late eighties

Eh? You do realise that Chester re-formed, still play at their old ground (Deva Stadium, which they moved to from Sealand Road) and today (Mar 10 2012) they're playing in the Northern Premier League against Bradford Park Avenue - another former Football League team that went bust and re-formed. Not bad progress in the two years since the old Chester club originally folded (check the start date of this thread).

 

[blue2]

Zamora's first appearance for us was as a substitute against Plymouth Argyle (the week before the Chester game) and he did score for us.

His first start for us was at Chester. (And I woz there!)

so was I and on the way home stopped for a burger and he was in the cue in front of me so I gave the young lad a few words of wisdom and just look what happened