With Portsmouth, Port Vale & Rangers in the news concerning administration a reporter looks at when Chester City, of the Conference Prem, went out of business 2 years ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17300043
Agreed
I posted this last week on another post.
Jimmy Hill.
Before: Player & chairman of the Professional Footballers Association
After: TV Pundit.
John Sillett.
Before: Manager Hereford Utd 1974–1978 promotion to Div 2 (1976) relegated back to div. 3 (1977), Sillett resigned (Feb...
Rob Gurney
Rob is part of the WM sports team. Find out what lead Rob to become a sports reporter and how you can get in touch with him.
Rob joined BBC WM full-time in September 2001 after working for the BBC in Coventry since the summer of 1994.
He covered Coventry City's matches home and...
Pompey ‘should be able to finish rest of season’
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pompey-should-be-able-to-finish-rest-of-season-1-3598825
this story about £800,000 has also been reported on Sky Sports News this morning.
IMO Where's their money coming from next year...
Can't get them out of my head now.
:whistle:Auberry allens our name
Sausage & bacons our game
we've got all kinds of meat
that your wanting to eat
Auberry Allen:whistle:
:whistle:Allens taxis
Coventry 5-5-5-5-5-5
you dial
we drive :whistle:
Stopped listening to Mercia when they lost Rob...
So Coventry City gets a mention on a number comments from Portsmouth fans regarding the story to bring in some loan signings.
It looks like we have some allies down there.
Appy set to strike before Royals clash...
Yeap due to contract conditions with CCFC the only way to listen to the game on the radio is in the midlands.
The iternet stream from CWR and Mercia are turned off.
CWR are only on the internet through Sky Blue Player which you have to pay for.
Down side of living outside of the midlands
More scare mongering in the Portsmouth local press
'Pack Fratton for what could be last home game'
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pack-fratton-for-what-could-be-last-home-game-1-3585994?commentssort=1
Try getting in touch with club statto Jim Brown. I got this imformation from Coventry City Former Players Association website http://www.ccfpa.co.uk/.
Jim Brown (Chairman) [email protected]
If Jim dosen't know then nobody will.
Oh dear! Poor old Portsmouth.
Appleton: No club has ever had it so bad
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton_no_club_has_ever_had_it_so_bad_1_3580679
Lastest news from Portsmouth this morning:
Wolanin and Howe pull out of Pompey deal
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/wolanin_and_howe_pull_out_of_pompey_deal_1_3580739
Administrator warns of hard times as Howe says he’ll keep working...
When i first went to Highfield Rd it cost me £4, but with a junior discount card cost me £2. A programme cost 30p. Bus fare from a village outside Cov 50p whilst the fares in Cov on the local buses cost just 17p.
Average wage for the UK was about £100 - £150 per week, footballers wage around...
Possibly Port Vale by the end of the week.
http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Port-Vale-wait-Stoke-Trent-City-Council-s-300k/story-15363329-detail/story.html
The whole world are still having financial problems, look at Greece for instance, as well as Spain, Italy etc and I think football...
1. Villa
2. Man Utd just because of there plastic fans who have supported them all their lives but haven't been to a game at Old Trafford, but have only seen them play at Highfield Rd.
However I did want Man U to beat Barsa last seat season, well for me here its was more England V Spain.
MK Dons are Wimbledon F.C., they are not a newly formed club from the conference.
The owners were given permission to relocate Wimbledon F.C. to Milton Keynes by Footballs governing bodies as Merton Council, refused Wimbledon F.C. planning permission to upgrade Plough Lane, and also would not...
If Portsmouth are liquidated it would mean 1 less team relegated from each division below throughout the pyramid. As Portsmouth would be 'relegated' from the Championship into league 1 then 'relegated' from league 1 to league 2 and so on. But promotions (including play offs) would remain the...
More news to come out of Portsmouth.
'Appleton pledges not to rush youngsters'
read more: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton_pledges_not_to_rush_youngsters_1_3574131?commentssort=1
'Pompey administrator admits club funds are running out'
read more...