The Chips Are Down In Pompey Roulette
Pompey Supporters’ Trust have made their bid for the club. Pause to take in the enormity of that statement. This is possibly one of the biggest steps taken in the...
Category "Clubs In Crisis"
I Come To Bury Rangers, Not To Praise Them
The scriptwriters for soap operas must be under enormous pressure to produce dramatic yet feasible storylines every few days. But if the pressure gets too much for them, which some...
Rangers, Scare Stories & The Restructuring Of Scottish Football
When a story of a fantastical nature first appears in a tabloid newspaper, the temptation is to write it off as the delusion of somebody with an agenda and move...
Last Rolls Of The Dice? The FA Charge Kettering’s “Saviour”
Quietly and without comment from the club concerned, a message appeared on the Football Associations website earlier today which confirmed a most curious piece of news. George Rolls, the acting...
Rangers: The CVA Failure
So farewell then, Rangers’ Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) and farewell too, Rangers’ administrators Duff & Phelps (D&P). The announcement that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are going to oppose D&P’s...
Time For Darlington To Prepare For Life In The Northern League
The first round of this years AGM Cup was completed with the FAs initial announcement of which clubs will be playing in which division next season, then, and the two...
George Rolls, Kettering Town & The Morals Of Insolvency
One of the great conceits of recent years in terms of the way that football clubs are run has been that there is a greater degree of transparency in the...
100 Owners: No.97 – Graham White (Colne Dynamoes)
We have, in recent years, become rather too accustomed to a boom and bust culture in football, particularly at clubs in the lower divisions. Few clubs, however, have ever boomed...
The Dog Returns to the Pompey Manger.
You have to admire the stoicism of football fans. No matter how much the parameters of the game are manipulated to the advantage of those with little emotional investment in...
Now That Rangers Are Saved, Part Three
Rangers’ spell in administration was best summed up deep in one of Court of Session Judge Lord Hodge’s many Rangers pronouncements over recent months. Paragraph fifty of his directions to...
George Rolls At Kettering: Advisor Or Shadow Director?
In the end, Kettering Town’s wretched season ended with a whimper rather than a bang. They finished the season with just thirty points, rooted to the bottom of the Blue...
Rangers: It Was The Daily Record Wot Won It
We have it in England too, of course. If the Daily Express newspaper doesn’t lead with a “news” item on Princess Diana, Madeleine McCann, freak weather or an EU “scandal”,...
Rangers: Miller’s Crossing Off
So…farewell, then, Bill Miller. Executive members of Scotland’s football authorities spent much of the weekend with their backs bent over – those that had spines in the first place –...
Rangers Creditors Volunteer To Agree?
More “lies”? Rangers co-administrators, Paul Clark and David Whitehouse have been relatively normal in at least one aspect of their Ibrox operations. Wherever there are co-administrators, one dominant personality emerges....
Now That Rangers Are Saved (Redux)
We are delighted to announce today that 200% has received an unconditional bid for the Rangers opinion piece from Mr Mark Murphy which has been accepted and he is now...
Darlington FC: Saved, But At A Price
As has happened before in the recent history of the club, the battle to save Darlington FC went to the wire. Another deadline was hanging over the club this week...
Another Week On The Edge For Rangers
It’s not as easy as it looks, this administration lark. In my time writing on football finance, I have yet to experience any sympathy for an administrator, or believe that...
Northwich Victoria: Time To Step Away From This Sinking Ship
There is always something faintly pathetic about the list of creditors for a football club’s proposed CVA. It’s not so much the big creditors that sink the heart – after...
Greg Clarke: A Bit of A Dinlow Moment?
‘Dinlow’ is proper Pompey. It is used, often affectionately, to someone who has said or done something idiotic. If Greg Clarke has not been a ‘bit of a din’ in...