[Football] Scunthorpe on the brink

[OzMike]

Ian Botham turned out for a few games for them too.
Maybe hecould chip in something.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Brings shivers to my spine reading this, to many memories, pray for Scunthorpe, iirc Ian Botham played for them a few times?

Yes he did, and Kevin Keegan started his career there.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

As a Sussex exile living in Northampton, I'll never forgive them for their actions in the last game of last season. They can rot in hell for all I care

Oh dearie, not too keen on them then? lol

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

BBC reports a certain Alan Hardy ex-Notts County is planning to put in a bid and i believe that he has baggage.

I don't see why a few extra suitcases should present too much of a problem.

 

[maresfield seagull]

As a Sussex exile living in Northampton, I'll never forgive them for their actions in the last game of last season. They can rot in hell for all I care

Care to expand upon this ?

 

[maresfield seagull]

Very sad. I grew up in Lincolnshire and was a mascot for Albion at Scunny. Late 90s. Think we lost 3-1 and Jamie Moralee came on as a sub and got sent off within a couple of minutes for hitting a Scunny player. One of my favourite Albion memories.

My bad memory convinced me the Moralee sending off was at the Pissfield one evening

 

[hart's shirt]

Care to expand upon this ?

Fielding a very young and inexperienced side, they lost 7-0 to Bristol Rovers in the final game of the season.

This allowed Rovers to move above Northampton into the automatic promotion places on GD.

Northampton subsequently lost in the playoffs.

But the Cobblers are currently 3rd in the table this season, so they might not have to wait long for promotion anyway.

 

[inland seagull]

Care to expand upon this ?

Northampton Town looked as though they just needed to win their last game of the season at Barrow, which was achieved fairly comfortably, but the tub of lard called Keith Hill put out a youth team for Scunny at Bristol Rovers and lost out 8-0 (I think) and Northampton missed out on goal difference, no rules broken, just left a nasty taste

 

[Tfitz12]

Assume most have seen the news from today. Directors pulling out and they’ve had to leave their ground. Another club falling victim to terrible owners

 

[Zeus]

Assume most have seen the news from today. Directors pulling out and they’ve had to leave their ground. Another club falling victim to terrible owners

Shocking.

 

[Hamilton]

Was about to bounce this but I see @Tfitz12 has done it already.

Scunthorpe's owner David Hilton has withdrawn funding from the club. The club have announced that they are to play games 16 miles away at Gainsborough Trinity. But, surprise surprise, Gainsborough say they know nothing about the arrangement.

Hilton bought the club off Peter Swann in January. Swann retained ownership of Glanford Park despite falling foul of the fans ire. Swann appears to have run up huge gambling debts.

You might see David Hilton as a knight in shining armour, but no. Hilton has admitted on a podcast to having served time for fraud. He has served nine months of a two-year sentence for 15 counts of fraud worth a total of £68,000.

Now fans have been banned from entering the stadium because they have spoken out against the club. Would be great to get @The Albion Roar in contact with Scunthorpe's Iron Bru podcast as it looks like those are the guys who have been told they are not welcome.

How do the FA still allow these people in to run football clubs? What are they doing?

It's all depressingly familiar.

Do put the Northampton story to one side. That's not the fans fault. They face losing their club.

What can you do?

Write to Mark Bullingham at the FA to ask why David Hilton and Peter Swann were approved as fit and proper owners: sgpenquiries@TheFA.com
(unsurprisingly, the FA make it hard to find ways of contacting them, so in the first instance go via St George's Park.)

Write to the Football Ombudsman to ask why Scunthorpe United fans are being prevented from attending games for voicing opposition to the current owners: contact@theifo.co.uk

Attend a game if you're in the area.

 

[Boys 9d]

I've always been interested in Scunthorpe United's fortunes and misfortunes as I feel an affinity to the Albion as they were the last team to be promoted from the old Division 3 North the same season Albion won Division 3 South. Remember in those days there was only one promotion place from each of those Divisions.

 

[5Ways Gull]

Yes he did, and Kevin Keegan started his career there.

Think Ray Clemence did as well. Sure there was one of those trick questions going around, name 3 England captains to play for Scunthorpe.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

When will the footballing authorities get a grip!....Very sad for Scunny fans.

 

[hart's shirt]

Think Ray Clemence did as well. Sure there was one of those trick questions going around, name 3 England captains to play for Scunthorpe.

Ian Botham.

 

[BBassic]

There is something very wrong with football.

Avarice at one end and existential disaster at the other.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Perhaps Messrs Keegan and Botham could get involved?

 

[Hotchilidog]

Incredible that Hilton passed the Fit & Proper Persons test, this is a disgrace and the FA have facilitated it.

 

[Albion my Albion]

One of NSC's finest voting sabotage moments.

Our choice for Miss Scunny Honey 2000...Vicki Peck.

The other contestants can be found here.

http://web.archive.org/web/20001209215200/http://www.vikingfm.co.uk/honey.htm

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I think #8, Tracy McCrea, should be voted the winner on a technicality.

Because technically someone who doesn't really want it should win it.

 

[fly high]

Incredible that Hilton passed the Fit & Proper Persons test, this is a disgrace and the FA have facilitated it.

Isn't it down to the EFL to carryout the fit & proper test on EFL club owners?