RIP Chester City?

[Stretts]

from Bulls News

http://bullsnews.blogspot.com/

Chester Refused Licence To Play

Chester have been refused their licence to play football by the FA.

The FA have voiced concerns over the new ownership structure and are refusing to allow the club to continue playing until concerns are resolved. The exact nature of the problems are unclear, but may relate to the way the Vaughan family retained ownership of the club during their recent spell in Administration.

The club have been forced to cancel tomorrow's planned friendly with the BBC Sport website reporting: FA compliance officer Neil Prescott has been in touch with the club to advise that they should cancel their pre-season friendlies.

And if, as expected, the FA do not allow them to start the new campaign on 9 August, then the future of the club, who were already due to start next season under a 10-point penalty, would be in doubt.

[Thaumagurist*]

It's a sign of times that Chester is not even being mentioned on Hollyoaks.

[Silver Fox]

A friendly with the BBC Sport website? What position does Ben Dirs play?

[Stranded]

I must be getting Club in Crisis fatigue as I just can't seem to care.

[Terminal Boardom]

from Bulls News

http://bullsnews.blogspot.com/

Chester Refused Licence To Play

Chester have been refused their licence to play football by the FA.

The FA have voiced concerns over the new ownership structure and are refusing to allow the club to continue playing until concerns are resolved. The exact nature of the problems are unclear, but may relate to the way the Vaughan family retained ownership of the club during their recent spell in Administration.

The club have been forced to cancel tomorrow's planned friendly with the BBC Sport website reporting: FA compliance officer Neil Prescott has been in touch with the club to advise that they should cancel their pre-season friendlies.

And if, as expected, the FA do not allow them to start the new campaign on 9 August, then the future of the club, who were already due to start next season under a 10-point penalty, would be in doubt.

Typical!

Perfectly acceptable though for the likes Of Man Utd and Liverpool to be hideously in debt though. Blatant hypocrisy by the FA AGAIN!

[Dirk Gently]

Although I think this is more about paperwork iregularities than anything terminal - the Beeb website is less dramatic than "Bulls News" is about this.

[Thaumagurist*]

from Bulls News

http://bullsnews.blogspot.com/

Chester Refused Licence To Play

Chester have been refused their licence to play football by the FA.

The FA have voiced concerns over the new ownership structure and are refusing to allow the club to continue playing until concerns are resolved. The exact nature of the problems are unclear, but may relate to the way the Vaughan family retained ownership of the club during their recent spell in Administration.

The club have been forced to cancel tomorrow's planned friendly with the BBC Sport website reporting: FA compliance officer Neil Prescott has been in touch with the club to advise that they should cancel their pre-season friendlies.

And if, as expected, the FA do not allow them to start the new campaign on 9 August, then the future of the club, who were already due to start next season under a 10-point penalty, would be in doubt.

Typical!

Perfectly acceptable though for the likes Of Man Utd and Liverpool to be hideously in debt though. Blatant hypocrisy by the FA AGAIN!

However, Man Utd and Liverpool haven't been in administration yet.

[FiNeRaIn]

Another sob story...yawn.

[Jerry St Clair]

Wasn't the former York chairman sniffing around Chester?

[soggy biscuit]

Transfer embargo imposed. Have been told they will be kicked out of the conference if they haven't paid up by 5:00pm on Monday

City are alleged to have failed to inform the Conference of all their football creditors and meet agreed payment dates of those debts.

The allegations also state they failed to send ticket monies to Wrexham, and failed to settle a financial agreement with Vauxhall Motors, which was due following the loan period that Paul Taylor spent at the Deva Stadium

[handbags_harris]

Dire straights at the Deva. No fans, no money, no points, which will ultimately end up being no club.

[LUX]

Us Onion Baggers can but grieve.

[soggy biscuit]

RIP TOB

[Jackson Corner]

Very sad how they have come to this. I remember going to the old Sealand Road for an away game when Dixon scored twice in a 3-2 win.

[Alan Partridge]

RIP TOB

With the amount of OAE/TOBers on getreading, maybe there should be an official invasion of the comments page and try and organise a meetup. Sogs can you ask royal_bloke if he thinks it's a good idea?

[soggy biscuit]

RIP TOB

With the amount of OAE/TOBers on getreading, maybe there should be an official invasion of the comments page and try and organise a meetup. Sogs can you ask royal_bloke if he thinks it's a good idea?

Reckon Royal Bloke might be interested, if he is not busy attacking a fictional disabled bus in Middlesboro of course.

[Barry the bird boggler]

Quick, let Clodagh know, they probably have players who can improve our squad....

[soggy biscuit]

Deadline extended to November 16th

[Dirk Gently]

An interesting rant by a CCFC supporter. 2nd & 3rd paragraphs show the sort of tricks that Vaughan has been up to.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody that knows anything as much as an iota about the way in which they run themselves, the Football Conference bowed down at the altar of Stephen Vaughan for (depending on which way you look at it) either the second, third or fourth time yesterday. They decided, having issued a stern warning to the club at the end of last week, to adjourn the issue of whether this hollowed out, withered shell of a club can actually, realistically, viably continue to trade for anything like the long term future yesterday for another three weeks.

It was another feeble, supine decision, which yet again lends credence to the idea that actually the game is being run by a bunch of spineless fools that turn up for meetings with people that both they and we know deep down inside have been laughing at them behind their backs. They failed a CVA because they couldn't even prove that they owed the money that they claimed to owe to a company owned by the chairman (who had, of course, transferred ownership of said club into his son's name a couple of months prior to the club entering into administration) and then, under the self-imposed veil of secrecy that these meetings carry with them, continued to fail to pay their football debts.

Fittingly, Chester City played Barrow in the FA Cup on Saturday and, after a 1-1 draw, they will play them again at The Deva Stadium tomorrow night. It is fitting because the last time the two clubs met, both clubs were owned by Stephen Vaughan, who sold his shareholding in Barrow to his painter and decorator a couple of days before the match for a token amount and bought them back on the Monday after the match. Considering the lack of official censure that he received over that little escapade, it would be hardly surprising if he felt that he could get away with anything. Whether that many people bother to turn out to watch the match tomorrow night, however, is a different matter.

Yesterday lunchtime the football gods shone down with a degree of providence at the FA Cup draw when they awarded the winners of the tie a First Round match against Eastleigh - mid-table in the Blue Square South and based barely ten miles from the south coast of England. This wasn't the money-spinner that Vaughan may have been hoping for. The three week stay of execution, however, is significant. In three weeks' time, the winners of the Eastleigh match will know
who their opponents are in the Second Round match. If a little extra money has come through the gates of The Deva Stadium by then, it is likely that the club's significant current football creditors, Wrexham and Vauxhall Motors, will be
paid in full and the club will be permitted to stagger on for another few weeks, or months, or however long it takes until the next crisis rears its head.

When this will crisis will be remains unknown, but Vaughan won in August even after his club's proposed CVA was thrown out by a court for "material irregularity", and he is still there now. Will Director of Football Eric Whalley, who jumped ship from Accrington Stanley during the summer, presumably having not paid the tax man for some time considering the GBP308,000 that they have had to find over the last few weeks to stave off a winding up order brought by HMRC, put some money in? Have the Football League been leaning on the Football Conference to keep Chester afloat no matter what?

And when the Football Conference's General Manager Dennis Strudwick says that, "All sides have responded to the situation and are willing to enter talks to come to a resolution. The Football Conference, Football League and Chester City will be sitting down for formal talks soon in order to give everybody a fair chance to put their case and work towards a solution", what does he mean? These questions and more have yet to be answered. Anyone hoping for full, frank and
clear answers to the ongoing questions - both moral and practical - concerning the ongoing existence of Chester City Football Club would be best advised to not hold their breath.

[Deathy]

Fittingly, Chester City played Barrow in the FA Cup on Saturday and, after a 1-1 draw, they will play them again at The Deva Stadium tomorrow night. It is fitting because the last time the two clubs met, both clubs were owned by Stephen Vaughan, who sold his shareholding in Barrow to his painter and decorator a couple of days before the match for a token amount and bought them back on the Monday after the match.