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2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
At The Sharp End… Dispatches From Southend, Cardiff, Watford, Preston & Portsmouth
One of the most useful research tools for football finance writing is the “Football Management” site run by Dr. John Beech of Coventry University. Dr. Beech took ten days off...
Southend United & Fossett’s Folly
Southend United were under threat of extinction thanks to a £400,000 Inland Revenue demand. Whilst their new ground at Fossett’s Farm is seen as the solution to the club’s long-term...
Cardiff & Southend vs The High Court: Round Three
Cardiff City and Southend United were both given a stay of execution recently by the High Court in their bids to stave off winding up petitions brought against them. Mark...
Southend United’s Counter-Attack Against HMRC
When HMRC came a-calling for Southend United's tax debt, the club decided that it didn't the money in the first place. Or did it? Mark Murphy finds mixed messages coming...
Lies, Damned Lies & The Words Of The “Official Club Spokesman”
As football sinks further and further into the financial mire, the official statements made by clubs themselves are becoming more and more odd, and more and more telling. Mark Murphy...
Southend United Hit The Financial Buffers
Southend United are the latest club to be in trouble with the taxman, and they have a date in court on Monday with a bill of over £600,000 to pay....
A Brave New World
Whilst noble in principle, the Abercrombie Report could hardly now be described as having been an unqualified success. The report, which advocated the mass decampment of a million and a...