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ading up the thames any day now meanwhile across london chelsea are faced with an unusual situation as they plan to move from stamford bridge the way that the stamford bridge stadium ownership was tied up ken bates to prevent it being sold this was undoubtedly his greatest footballing contribution although pedants might question my use of a superlative that implies he made three good footballing contributions this looks to be a saga in the making because of the failure to keep records up to date 2 and the club will face opposition from its fans 3 focused into the say no cpo group the club management must have been off sick when marketing101 was scheduled close by fulham have announced plans to redevelop part of craven cottage 4 this pursuit of the molineux model rather than following a high risk new stadium strategy is to be commended the alternative is the infinitely depressing fossetts farm model see postings passim or southend united s own new stadium webpage when planning turns to stadium development or redevelopment much depends on the attitude of the local council three current cases are plymouth argyle where the local council has agreed to pay 1 6m for home park and rent it back to the club for 135 000 a year this will hopefully facilitate a last ditch rescue but it should be remembered that the club had bought the ground from the council for 2 7m in 2006 5 swansea city where the council owned liberty stadium is rented to swansea city and the ospreys and continues to be run at a loss 6 can any reader with a deeper local knowledge explain this unlikely scenario doncaster where the council owned keepmoat stadium seems to be creating a worrying financial burden for doncaster council tax payers 7 again any deeper local insight would be appreciated what is disturbing in all of this is the reliance on the public purse any talk of rich clubs is a joke in the broader footballing context mind you mention of rich clubs and the public purse must raise a reminder of the shockingly bad deal from the perspective of manchester council tax payers struck between the local council and manchester city share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in assets stadium tagged assets stadium 5 comments just how slow can a car crash be posted by john beech on july 3 2011 on tuesday we were told that the long running plymouth argyle saga was on the verge of taking a significant turn according to administrator brendan guilfoyle at a meeting with the preferred bidder held today tuesday june 21 2011 the terms of a formal sale and purchase agreement were agreed by both parties 1 these terms of course include the separation of ownership of the stadium and the club invariably bad news for a club on wednesday peter ridsdale as ever the spinmeister announced our objective is to have the deal go through by the end of this week 2 which in my book at least promptly increased the odds on this actually happening sure enough as i write no deal has yet been announced nor will any imminent deal have any significant impact on the longer term stability of the club there is still the issue of the club s golden share to be resolved and the potential fly in the ointment is kevin heaney owner of truro city football club and not entirely successful property developer 3 ridsdale happily purrs mr heaney would only be the landlord of the home park ground and would have nothing to do with plymouth argyle football club as long as the club is independently owned and financed there is no reason why the football league should complain predictably the football league s chairman has promised that the governing body will rigorously enforce its regulations before giving the takeover the green light 4 this is the football league that rigorously enforced its regulations with respect to the anticipated removal of west ham to leyton orient s doorstep 5 so perhaps the spinmeister has reason to be optimistic i doubt it however there is too the small matter of ridsdale s impending court case which continues to cast a shadow over any new dawn in argyle s fortunes details of the charges here as a pompey fan i am only too familiar with false dawns at present the consensus among portsmouth fans seems to be to give the new owners vladimir antonov and convers sports initiatives a fair chance the football league apparently have by sanctioning the takeover 6 the financial services authority were against their general flow of approval less inclined to allow another vladimir antonov business the lithuanian bankas snoras to operate in the uk 7 the problem being a failure to provide all the required information to the regulator another antonov deal the purchase of spyker cars from saab attracted attention when there were allegations strongly denied that antonov had links with the russian mafia 8 to me it seems that not only do we suffer from ineffective fit and proper person tests in english football we suffer from the lack of any fit and proper governance test while we are quick to rightly condemn what has been going on in fifa of late perhaps some mote casting would be in order at the same time update 5 july 2011 apparently the deal is all on track although presumably that s the track with leaves on it share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fit and proper person tests football league governance ownership stadium tagged fit and proper person tests football league governance ownership stadium 5 comments of dream stadiums at plymouth and southend posted by john beech on may 29 2011 while the insolvency process has many shortcomings when it comes to football clubs one good thing it does do is shake some of the skeletons out of the cupboard as a pompey fan i m expecting some pretty shocking data and who knows even legal proceedings to emerge as forensic accountants work on the liquidation of the old company 1 at plymouth argyle a bit of a shocker has emerged 2 the sum spent on the ill considered attempt tp get a new stadium on the back of england s inglorious 2018 world cup bid if you haven t already seen it sit down because it was an eye watering figure of up to 1 2m it doesn t take the 20 20 vision of hindsight to see that this was plan that didn t make sense for argyle see my posting are we going stark stadium bonkers from april last year argyle fans might spare a thought for the fans of southend united see postings passim where 1 2m had been spent over a year ago on the as yet unstarted fossetts farm new stadium of which club chairman ron martin s family will be the financial beneficiaries a year on and this figure has certainly gone up last february the club requested southend council s development control committee to confirm the development of the new stadium as two components 3 which required the preparation of two new detailed plans for the submission this request has been approved by the council 4 meanwhile there is the matter of getting shop owners out so that the roots hall redevelopment by sainsburys can be given a clear run 5 doubtless with the lawyers adding to the overall final bill the roots hall redevelopment by sainsburys cannot begin until the first part of the fossetts farm development is completed i just wonder how long sainsburys will tolerate the delays as this whole saga of a move to fossetts farm has been dragging on for over ten years perhaps i should be more understanding pompey have been talking of a new stadium since the 1970s but then they haven t pursued the idea as relentlessly and i suspect at a rather lower cost to the club who knows perhaps the investigations surrounding the liquidation of the old company may reveal a secound bout of absurd 2018 profligacy on the south coast 6 share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in 2018 insolvency stadium tagged 2018 insolvency stadium 2 comments some stadium snippets posted by john beech on april 22 2011 mainly but not exclusively bad news from various clubs at various levels in the pyramid bradford city l2 population 294 000 nearest higher level club leeds united 10 miles city centre to city centre not stadium to stadium younger readers may be forgiven for not knowing that bradford city was home to premier league football albeit briefly ten years ago in what was later described by their chairman as six weeks of financial madness 1 the club spent wildly in a failed attempt to stay up and have been paying the price ever since stadium issues are complex with an alternative under review as a possibility see 2 and have been so since the club was forced to sell and lease it back in 2003 3 in the wake of administration new owner the then chairman s pension fund at the time it was said the aim is for the properties to return to the club s ownership at the earliest opportunity when the financial strength allows that has not happened and the yorkshire telegraph has recently reported that the club cannot continue to spend on rent at the current rate 4 they are currently having to pay 370 000 a year in stadium rental and a similar figure on office rental which together with other overheads brings their costs of simply existing to 1 25m a year brighton and hove albion about to rise to the championship 256 000 fulham 52 miles the only positive snippet at long last exile at the inappropriate withdean stadium is to finish and the brand new falmer stadium is virtually finished this will bring to an end one of english football s longest exiles ian king has good coverage on this situation here darlington conference 98 000 middlesbrough 16 miles hopefully not the template for brighton s future the saga of the arena is well known enough to not need repetition in detail here with areas of the stadium closed off on health safety grounds and dwindling crowds the club teeters on another financial precipice creditors are pushing for the sale of the stadium 5 and raj singh s attempts to revive the club are in jeopardy eastwood town conference north 18 000 nottingham forest notts county 10 miles perhaps not the most familiar of clubs but one that caught my eye some time back the club joined the midland league in 1971 and had progressed via the northern league east to the northern premier league it was the arrival of local entrepreneur rob yong as chairman that prompted me to add the club to my list of those to track he announced our target is simple two promotions in the next four seasons including 2007 08 this will clearly mean additional investment in the team but we will not waste money by paying over the odds for players or being held to ransom 6 yong held back from projecting eastwood s future into europe which is just as well as he clearly had no intention of pursuing a policy involving financial fair play so naked was his intent to engage in financial doping he openly boasted i personally pay the players wages and any other money that comes in from the fans through gate money and the like goes straight into the club i m very conscious that i don t want to leave the club in any debt at any point that s the way it has been structured there is no restriction on the manager s player budget but we must always be getting value for money 7 just over a year ago yong was pledging his commitment to the club until 2017 8 he had already clearly identified the need to upgrade the ground to conference national standards the club is currently in the play off places for promotion from the conference north earlier this month however the conference ruled that eastwood could not participate in the play offs which the club attributed to a difference of opinion in the interpretation of one of the play off rules 9 the fa rejected the club s appeal 10 yong has shown his commitment to the club when it faces some problems by putting it up for sale for 1 11 reading the statement it is easy to sympathise with his frustration but rather less so with his decision to walk leaving the club debt free but paying wages that are not budgeted against revenues farnborough conference south 57 000 aldershot 4 miles farnborough is a resurrection of farnborough town who went into liquidation in 2007 and has already managed to climb back to the conference south in february 2009 the club signed a contract to develop a new south stand 12 the club itself being committed to half of the 500k costs in march last year the club managed to beat a winding up petition brought by a coach company over an unpaid bill 13 in september it received funding of 30 000 from the local council for ground improvements in spite of the fact that it was in debt to the council to the tune of 18 000 14 as recently as december a transfer embargo was lifted after the club settled its debt to hmrc 15 still the stadium improvement marches on earlier this month the purchase of the east stand from darlington s old feethams ground was agreed in principle 16 accrington stanley fans will no doubt recall what happened when their club bought a second hand stand from aldershot especially as there is talk currently of buying one from blackpool or morecambe 17 fleetwood town conference 27 000 blackpool 9 miles fleetwood also have a bit of a stadium development fixation a 1997 resurrection the club is bankrolled by controversial 18 local businessman andy pilley last week the new east stand was opened at a cost of 4 5m 19 poole town wessex league premier division 138 000 bournemouth 6 miles yet another club suffering from stadium envy although it must be said with good reason they are unable to get promoted with their present temporary home stadium 20 the fight to get planning permission for their new 2m stadium is edging ever nearer success which would mean their first permanent home since 1994 21 worcester city conference north 94 000 birmingham city aston villa 30 miles another club suffering from the result of over ambitious stadium plans albeit put in place by a previous regime their dreams of moving to a new stadium at nunnery way in a scheme with developers st modwen having become increasingly unlikely to succeed 22 and even a scaled down plan carries some very worrying costs 23 a good summary of the current situation is here far too many instances of unrealistic over ambition and there are bound to be tears before bedtime somewhere that said i wish brighton the exception in this round up well in their new stadium it s been a long and painful saga since leaving the goldstone so inauspiciously almost two decades ago and they deserve a good break after all that has happened i ve been trying to find out what is or isn t happening with the redevelopment of stoke s old victoria ground over a decade on does any reader have any insight share this 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