| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury 05:14 - Jul 29 with 1206 views | WeWereZombies |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c860979gg64o
'Now the Shrimps' first three fixtures - against Boston, Brackley and Scunthorpe - have been postponed. If they are unable to provide proof they will be able to complete the whole season by the time the league's compliance and licensing committee meet again next month, they face expulsion.'
We were playing them in League One just two and a half years ago, now they are out of the ninety two and may not be allowed to compete in the next tier down. There but for the grace of Gamechanger go we ? |  |
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 05:37 - Jul 29 with 1136 views | Perublue |
Gwion Edwards is there I see .. It looks like he survived the demolition man and left even though we wanted him to stay… of course we don’t know what Kmac would have done with him but that must be one of those sliding doors moments. [Post edited 29 Jul 5:39]
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 05:46 - Jul 29 with 1119 views | WeWereZombies |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 05:37 - Jul 29 by Perublue |
Gwion Edwards is there I see .. It looks like he survived the demolition man and left even though we wanted him to stay… of course we don’t know what Kmac would have done with him but that must be one of those sliding doors moments. [Post edited 29 Jul 5:39]
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I didn't realise Gwion was on the playing staff, so spare a thought for him if you see him in a bar and buy him a drink:
'Morecambe's staff and players were paid only a third of their wages in June. Any payments for July have not yet been publicly disclosed. The club has a squad of just 10 senior players and has cancelled pre-season friendlies.'
The article reads very similar to the story a couple of days ago about the chancer who tried to put on a Glastonbury style festival called Monmouth Rising' except that there seems to be at least three chancers involved in this one, one of whom already owns a football club.
'Whittingham has been a director at 25 companies during his career, according to Companies House. Of those 25 companies, 18 have been either dissolved, voluntarily dissolved, put into administration, put into liquidation, or put into receiver action...but he still passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test.' | |
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 08:06 - Jul 29 with 841 views | Churchman |
Owned by Evans, the club was rotting away and sinking. League 2 was likely, but lower than that? Possible but unlikely. The club was sold on for a pittance and I suspect it would have been flogged for smaller crumbs had Evans hung on. To who is the big question.
Edit: I’ve no doubt Morecambe will recover in time, just as Bury will. [Post edited 29 Jul 8:10]
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 11:28 - Jul 29 with 528 views | WeWereZombies |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 08:06 - Jul 29 by Churchman |
Owned by Evans, the club was rotting away and sinking. League 2 was likely, but lower than that? Possible but unlikely. The club was sold on for a pittance and I suspect it would have been flogged for smaller crumbs had Evans hung on. To who is the big question.
Edit: I’ve no doubt Morecambe will recover in time, just as Bury will. [Post edited 29 Jul 8:10]
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That would probably have been the case, I was over-egging it a bit with a comparison of Marcus Evans to the individual who has bought, and then apparently found himself out of his depth, at the shallows of Morecambe's golden sands. I should have focused on how limp the EFL's owners and directors tests are. And I love a good dodgy director story (just so long as I am not an employee or creditor.) Sorry for putting music business related stuff on my football thread but consider how this clown would have probably been able to buy (but not pay for) a lower league club:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8d7vl420o
'Monmouth Rising was due to be held on a leafy showground outside the Welsh border town - a space more used to hosting Saturday morning car boot sales than festivals with five stages...At a packed town hall meeting in February, the 47-year-old [James Kenny] showed detailed site maps he claimed had been designed with the same software used to plan the Paris Olympics...BBC Radio Wales would broadcast the festival live and a cannon would even fire bacon butties into the campsite in the mornings...When Mr Purslow [website designer] asked for payment this year, Mr Kenny sent a screenshot, seen by the BBC, of an international money transfer for £200,000 from a bank in Malta, but the name was misspelled...When we asked the bank about the document, it said it was "not legitimate"...Mr Vincent [Creamfiekds] said he had never met him or invested any money while two of the original Creamfields founders and current owners all said they had never heard of him...The Welsh government said it had never done an economic impact assessment...The Killers and Def Leppard said they had never been asked to perform...on 6 March, he [Kenny] posted an open letter on social media cancelling the festival because, he said, it was "no longer viable" but still hoped it would run in 2026...He said all ticket holders and vendors would receive refunds but BBC Wales has been told only 24 people had bought tickets and all were refunded because their payments had been held by the ticketing company...He wouldn't tell us where he's now living or answer our questions about the alleged forgeries, or the investors he claimed he had, and asked us to email him with our questions instead...James Kenny is a named director of dozens of small companies under different versions of his name, leaving £27,000 in unpaid County Court Judgements, external behind him...In 2008, he was convicted of two counts of fraud for forging his wife's signature to obtain a mortgage payment to clear £15,000 worth of debts.' | |
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 11:50 - Jul 29 with 472 views | PhilTWTD |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 08:06 - Jul 29 by Churchman |
Owned by Evans, the club was rotting away and sinking. League 2 was likely, but lower than that? Possible but unlikely. The club was sold on for a pittance and I suspect it would have been flogged for smaller crumbs had Evans hung on. To who is the big question.
Edit: I’ve no doubt Morecambe will recover in time, just as Bury will. [Post edited 29 Jul 8:10]
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League Two was very unlikely, our budget was still very strong for League One. Even without increasing the budget we should have been vying for promotion. |  | | |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 12:22 - Jul 29 with 399 views | WeWereZombies |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 11:50 - Jul 29 by PhilTWTD |
League Two was very unlikely, our budget was still very strong for League One. Even without increasing the budget we should have been vying for promotion. |
I guess this is where my slight on the Marcus Evans ownership really falls apart, he was at least putting money in whereas I feel that, even if it doesn't show up in the accounts, it is a case of the owner trying to find ways of taking money or assets out at Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday. On that note I think we have to admire Southend Unbited for keeping hold of Roots Hall, I worked for a construction company in the mid-1980s whose development arm were sniffing around it looking for land to build housing on and that was not the only circling vulture.
I seem to remember now that at the time of the Gamechanger takeover there was a comments from Evans that he was not going to sell to people who would not look after the club. Although that does the leave the danger that you may sell to a fit and proper owner but they may find themselves in reduced circumstances some years later and be forced to sell to an asset stripper. Important for this new football regulator to have teeth and for the Premier League and EFL to beef up their oversight teams. | |
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 12:36 - Jul 29 with 358 views | HighgateBlue |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 11:50 - Jul 29 by PhilTWTD |
League Two was very unlikely, our budget was still very strong for League One. Even without increasing the budget we should have been vying for promotion. |
Absolutely. Some sense. Hatred of Evans clouds people's judgment to such an extent that something that was indeed very unlikely is deemed to have been likely.
Plenty of clubs have fallen to the third tier and risen again in the last 25 years. We weren't entitled to be immune from third tier football, but neither were we destined to keep on falling having fallen one tier from our long term standard position in the hierarchy.
We have been blessed with some decent long term managers and owners at this Club over the last half century and more. That shouldn't make us think that Evans was the devil. When one sees what other clubs have to suffer (and Morecambe is a decent example), we have not had such a bad time of it. Evans did not fail to pay players. Evans did not leech money out of the club. Yes, he did a poor job of managing the club financially. Yes, he made some poor decisions in terms of managerial appointments and gave money to the wrong people. But the amount of stick that the guy gets, as the only person ever to have gifted the club more than £90m+ is beyond me. |  | | |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 12:50 - Jul 29 with 302 views | davblue |
| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 11:50 - Jul 29 by PhilTWTD |
League Two was very unlikely, our budget was still very strong for League One. Even without increasing the budget we should have been vying for promotion. |
It felt like we were getting worse, if anything in league 1 pre takeover. It might not have happened in 2 or 3 years but if Evans had been there for another 10 years I think we would have been struggling at the bottom potentially if not down. We were run appallingly.
Don’t forget how understaffed and behind the times we were off the pitch, the club was almost at rock bottom on and off the pitch, there was nothing to hang your hat on. |  | | |
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| Spare a thought for Morecambe F.C., could be going the way of Bury on 13:53 - Jul 29 with 227 views | monty_radio |
The leading player in the shareholders' bond group is a guy called Whittingham, of whom the BBC says in another article:
Whittingham has been a director at 25 companies during his career, according to Companies House. Of those 25 companies, 18 have been either dissolved, voluntarily dissolved, put into administration, put into liquidation, or put into receiver action (the precursor stage to liquidation).
Two of Whittingham's companies had been dissolved by compulsory strike-off prior to his takeover of Morecambe - but he still passed the EFL's owners' and directors' test. |  |
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