At the start of this week there weren’t many folk outside of Chesterfield that knew of Toby Perkins, the MP for the Spire town.
Scottish football fans of a certain age will remember the Anglo Scottish Cup antics of the local football club, sending John Greig’s sorry mob to a 4-1 aggregate defeat in 1981.
Alas both of those clubs are no longer with us, both went into liquidation in the last dozen years but you’ll be hard pressed to find recognition of that in the Scottish media.
Back in June 2012 it was front page news when the creditors, including Her Majesty and Dave King rejected a CVA put together by Charles Green.
Soon afterwards a very strange storyline emerged, completely contrary to all logic. Apparently it wasn’t full blown liquidation, seemingly liquidation only applied to the holding company or the engine room subsidiary as The Herald imaginatively put it.
All lies. Which the football authorities and mainstream media have clung onto as their dwindling credibility plunged even further.
Fortunately in the House of Commons on Tuesday there was a surprise outburst of truth and honesty.
Recording the intervention of Perkins, Hansard, the official record of the House of Commons reported:
Surely football club owners should be able to spend the money they have to take such a risk. However, if they are spending money from the future, as Derby County and Glasgow Rangers did, and the risk fails in the current year, they will inevitably go bust. Glasgow Rangers disappeared altogether, and Derby County almost disappeared. Football fans do not want clubs to take that risk, and surely the regulator should be preventing that.
Not one Scottish mainstream outlet chose to report on the comments of Perkins, he clearly knows his stuff with HMRC still waiting on final settlement from liquidators, BDO.
As well as 276 trade creditors 6,000 loyal bears were left clutching worthless Debentures with their £7.7m long gone.
UEFA said it was the same Club. How could they do that?
Just like toom tabard mate only its empty words thats all
It;s just the opposite.
See Andrea Traverso letter confirming new club in 2016
The Traverso letter confirms that EUFA knows that Sevco is a new club. If for instance, the new club had won the Scottish Cup in 2013, they wouldn’t have been eligible to play in Europe the following season. EUFA rules stipulate that any club playing in European competition must be able to produce audited accounts for the previous 3 years. Sevco would not have been able to fulfill this criterion.
Hail Hail.
Brilliant Joe, many thanks for that from Hansard.
It’ll add to my ‘armoury’ when I next approach the BBC to live up to its ‘verity’ bullshit.
The SMSM headlines from the day of the CVA rejection, the FACT that Sevco (not Rangers) played Brechin in July 2012, the statement in the Scottish Court of Session by Alan Dewar QC (at the time) and now Hansard. The BBC will struggle to put a spin and shine on their ‘big jobby’.