The story of Steve Evans is a story of chronic mismanagement and financial doping. At Crawley Town, a new project is underway, but the past, his criminal conviction, and the wreckage left at Boston United can't be so easily bought off.
Inside this issue: the team sheets
SubsHow Mussolini's Italy Fixed the 1934 Tournament · The 1966 World Cup Boycott: When Africa and Asia Said Enough · Colombia 1986, the Tournament That Never Was
World football’s governing body has again been exposed as unfit for purpose. Its tortuous, delayed response to the invasion of Ukraine shows a complete failure of leadership and morality.
The battle for Rochdale is over, for now. But the attempted hostile takeover by a group of speculators leaves deep concerns about the EFL’s ability to protect clubs from those with questionable motives and even more questionable methods.
After years of decline and a controversial asset transfer that saw the club lose its ground, Scunthorpe United's future looks increasingly precarious.
A £40,000 fine and a twelve-point deduction for Dover Athletic is the latest act in a season defined by the National League’s mismanagement, leaving clubs on the brink and its board facing a vote of no confidence.
The future of Whyteleafe FC hangs in the balance after the chairman unilaterally terminated the lease on its ground, now owned by a Singaporean company with links to the former Liverpool striker Ian Rush.
Eighteen years before Brendan Rodgers’ side established itself near the top of the Premier League, Leicester City faced financial oblivion in the wake of the ITV Digital collapse. Their administration would change the rules of English football forever.
With clubs furloughing players and refusing to fulfil fixtures, the National League's response has been to issue threats rather than provide clear leadership, leaving its own competition in a state of chaos.
Southend United head back to the High Court this week. With the club in a perilous financial state and anchored to the bottom of the league, time seems to be running out for chairman Ron Martin.
The end, when it came, felt both shocking and inevitable. After twelve adjournments, Macclesfield Town were wound up in the High Court, a club brought down by years of financial mismanagement rather than the effects of a pandemic.
Twice in their history, Queens Park Rangers decided that Loftus Road was holding them back. Twice, they moved a few hundred yards to White City Stadium, and twice the dream of becoming a London powerhouse evaporated.
Twohundredpercent publishes long-form football stories about the English game, the kind of football stories that need more than a match report: club history from the Premier League down to the non-league pyramid, the grounds that have gone, the World Cup's stranger chapters and the people who ran clubs into trouble.
The finance runs through all of it. Administrations, winding-up orders and points deductions are recorded in the Club Crisis Index, and the owners behind them in 100 Owners. Football history and football finance turn out to be the same story more often than not.
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