[Wynonie Harris]

Bob Lord was instrumental in killing Stanley off, because he didn't want another league club on Burnley's doorstep. His opinion that there was no alternative to closure panicked the remaining directors into sending a resignation letter off to the league far too hastily. After that letter was sent off and the club's plight was known, offers of financial help poured in. In the light of this, a second letter withdrawing the resignation was sent. Bob Lord as a member of the league management committee, could have used his influence to call an emergency general meeting of all the other 91 clubs to decide Stanley's fate which at least would have given them a chance of survival in the light of the new offers of assistance. He chose not to, despite saying that he'd do what he could to help Stanley just one week previously. As someone once said, asking Bob Lord to help Stanley was like putting a wolf in charge of a flock of lambs!