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Scarborough FC
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Barrel of Fun
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Shamefully let down by their Local Council.
Braders
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just a few years ago they were playing Chelsea.. sadly most football fans nowadays won't remember them or even have heard of them..- Thread starter
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Scarborough Football Club has gone out of business.
The former Football League club was wound up at Leeds High Court at a hearing on Wednesday morning.
Boro hoped the local council would lift a covenant on their McCain Stadium so it could be sold for residential use to cover debts and finance a new ground.
But the judge hearing the case felt a rescue package was unlikely in the face of mounting debts which include a sum of £820,000 owed to the Inland Revenue.
The Seasiders, formed 128 years ago and a League club until 1999, had been accepted into the UniBond League after suffering a second successive relegation last season.
That will no longer happen but supporters may now look to form a new club, playing at a lower level and ground-sharing with another local team.
The former Football League club was wound up at Leeds High Court at a hearing on Wednesday morning.
Boro hoped the local council would lift a covenant on their McCain Stadium so it could be sold for residential use to cover debts and finance a new ground.
But the judge hearing the case felt a rescue package was unlikely in the face of mounting debts which include a sum of £820,000 owed to the Inland Revenue.
The Seasiders, formed 128 years ago and a League club until 1999, had been accepted into the UniBond League after suffering a second successive relegation last season.
That will no longer happen but supporters may now look to form a new club, playing at a lower level and ground-sharing with another local team.
Silent Bob
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- Dec 6, 2004
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That's a shame.
However does this mean Worthing may avoid relegation after all?
However does this mean Worthing may avoid relegation after all?
Barrel of Fun
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I would imagine the covenant will now be lifted from the Ground. No point in having a stadium if nothing is being palyed there.
jonny.rainbow
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- Oct 29, 2005
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Hopefully they will be back at some point, like Accrington Stanley.
It's harsh when you think that they only went down to the conference in the first place because Jimmy Glass scored that equaliser for Carlisle, after the Football League gave them special dispensation to sign a keeper after the deadline had passed.
It's harsh when you think that they only went down to the conference in the first place because Jimmy Glass scored that equaliser for Carlisle, after the Football League gave them special dispensation to sign a keeper after the deadline had passed.
Worthing will be happy
Fourteenth Eye
Face for Radio
Is that official now cos they have been up & down like a yoyo the last couple of weeks.
Forgive my ignorance here but how does this help Worthing, given that Scarborough had nothing to do with the Ryman league?
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Any players that could do a job?
What?
What?
Yoda
English & European
Rip
Im not too sure, but the knock on means Worthing stay up.
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
RIP Scarborough FC. You'll be dearly missed.
Silent Bob
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bhaexpress
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Sadly the McCains Stadium has had it's chips
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
On the Wikipedia site:
The McCain Stadium will be sold to property developers (Persimmon Homes) for around £4.1 million and this will be enough to pay off all of the clubs debts and fund the new stadium.
Shame.
The McCain Stadium will be sold to property developers (Persimmon Homes) for around £4.1 million and this will be enough to pay off all of the clubs debts and fund the new stadium.
Shame.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
£4.1M to pay off all debts and fund the new stadium ? I know it is less expensive up north .........................