Really sad to see a historical club,and a founding member of the football league, on the brink of ceasing to exist. Why can’t the FA grow a pair and stop bad owners from messing these clubs about?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49470865
Bolton
posted on 26/8/19
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posted on 26/8/19
The article doesn't explain how bad owners have messed Bolton about.
posted on 26/8/19
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 hours, 56 minutes ago
The article doesn't explain how bad owners have messed Bolton about.
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Don't know as much about Bury but I do know the owner bought the club for a quid and could have sold it. Wants about £800k for it.
With Bolton (my in laws are from Bolton) I remember when they sacked Megson and took on Couple. That was "fan power" as Megson (who I loathe) said they were acting above their station and was sacked. He was right. It spiralled since then
Stoke were the same with Pulis
These clubs and fans kind of bought it on themselves imho.
It is a shame but hard to feel sympathy
posted on 26/8/19
Jinja
I have always said that people underestimated exactly what a good job Fat Sam did at Bolton.
posted on 26/8/19
Whilst you have to have full sympathy with the BW supporters, many of us scratching around the lower divisions have never forgotten their former chairman, Phil Gartside, and his attempts to make the Premier League a closed shop when the going was good for the Wanderers. Given they were happy enough to sh-t on the rest of us back then, I've far greater sympathy for Bury's plight than I do Bolton.
Still, fingers crossed they find the miracle they need at the 11th hour.
posted on 26/8/19
Have lots of friends who are Bolton fans. Meeting quite a few this weekend, when they probably won't have a club to support.
Have a certain sympathy, but every Bolton game I've been I've heard a certain derogatory song sung about United. Not by just a few fans either.
On the ownership thing, they've long been mismanaged. They were in a similar situation about 20 years ago, on the brink of being shut down.
My friend and his dad were shareholders at the time. They were pretty much f*cked over by Gartside and Eddie Davies to the tune of more than £50k.
posted on 26/8/19
Why can’t the FA grow a pair and stop bad owners from messing these clubs about?
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Isn;t that exactly what the FA did? Bolton have been for sale for some time and when there was a potential buyer, the FA stopped the sale as he couldn't prove to them he had the cash?
posted on 26/8/19
i would feel sorry for the fans but there doesn't seem to be any. once an entertaining team battling for Europe with fat sam in charge they've slid a long way.
a piece of history fading away.
posted on 27/8/19
I find it sad to see whats happening at Bolton and Bury. The thing that strikes me is the arrogance of the EFL in all this, I know their rules have been repeatedly broken by both clubs, but the way they are acting you'd think they want them to go out of existence. You would think the league would be bending over backwards to support the clubs, instead they seem to have imposed an arbitrary deadline of expulsion which cannot be met instead of allowing them all of the time possible to work with administrators and potential buyers. In Bolton's case it does look clear that there is no workable solution and inevitably the club will be wound up but why would the EFL not allow some leniency to one of its founder members even at the expense of some inconvenience to its other members?