Still missing the point

by Frank

 

York's plight isn't about a tight chairman.

It's been brought about because Douglas Craig bought the club for about £150,000 a dozen years ago.

In 1999 he set up a new company called Bootham Crescent Holdings, which "bought" Bootham Crescent for £166,000 of the club's OWN MONEY.

He sold the club last year to John Batchelor for £1.

Now he wants to sell the ground to Persimmon for £4.5 million, and evict York City.

YCFC's debt by the end of the season will be only £1 million, which is a great deal less than most clubs, and would easily have been secured using the ground as security if it hadn't been stolen from us.

We'd certainly have had a tough couple of years trying to claw back the lost money, but at least we would have survived, and would still have owned our own home.

League rules were flouted to bring this situation about yet the League just sat on their hands and let it happen.

Any club could be next, even yours...

And, purely coincidentally, Douglas Craig was the man who chaired the committee that gave the go-ahead for the owners of Wimbledon to destroy that club by moving it to Milton Keynes.

It just goes to prove that rich bastards stick together, so the ordinary fans have to stick together as well.

I've given my support to many clubs in trouble including Hull (twice) and will do so again, even if those clubs are Scunthorpe and Boston.

I'm not going to let a few small-minded dickheads drive a wedge between me and those other fans, because if they do, it only makes it easier for the rich bastards to do us all over again and again...



Posted on Jan 15, 2003, 6:46 PM

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