Maybe this is the kind of thing AH was thinking about?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47650699
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47650699
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it will all end in tears exile. an industry cannot go on for ever making losses on this scale year after year. if one club folds stanley 1962 style then others will follow and it might not be the little clubs either. for the sake of the game if a so called bigger club goes bust with no buyer then there is more chance of something happening than say it was morecambe .
hartlepool united disabled section are holding a fundraising event on friday 5 april at the steelworks club in the town. for 20 quid you get a pie and peas supper, a comedian and a talk by dean windass. hope financial advice is not given to his audiance.
It was sounding like a good do before you mentioned Dean Windass, they'd have to pay me to listen to him & it'd be way more than 20 quid
£20 for two comedians and a pie sounds like a bargain.
Not ideal but perfectly understandable, new pitch entirely for next season!
Andy Holt outlines his next priorities for Accrington Stanley https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co....s-his-next-priorities-for-accrington-stanley/ agreed. the pitch is the most important thing after the players.
I see that nice Mr. Evans has just been appointed Gillingham's new manager - good to know we'll be locking horns with him again next season, his teams are always a delight to play against
wonder if he,s took his equally obnoxious gobby assistant with him.
Links ben removed so here's another https://www.efl.com/news/2019/april/key-dates-announced-ahead-of-201920-season/, 20th June league fixture are out..
an interesting read in the independent regarding clubs that are unable to pay wages the gap between the different leagues and they say league 1 clubs need gates of over 10,000 to sustain survival https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...3n_hQoWq6rBA9fnA9RU0zEEYeNjQW1zTUnwSbdLFKdZzA
lots of lower leagur and non league clubs love to call themselves community clubs. for me it just seems a plea to local people to turn up for the match. they do very little infact for the community on the whole apart from school visits. i,m not talking about Stanley but clubs in general. even those like hartlepool with a town centre location do very little off the field activity for the local community. its like passing the marie celeste there on non match days. the problem is the money generated from say pensioners meetings, mother and baby groups and anything you can think of will only generate a few hundred pounds when its thousands that are required. its all about the money in the end. unless wages are kept more in check for me things will only get worse with even more players having to leave the game as clubs go back to the early 70,s with even smaller squads than they have now.
Talking of community clubs, most of us will have seen this before but, this time, it's from the United Arab Emirates:
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/fo...t-the-heart-of-the-community-exactly-1.863776
https://www.thenational.ae/sport/fo...t-the-heart-of-the-community-exactly-1.863776