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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 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 stadium tagged stadium 4 comments how utterly utterly absurd posted by john beech on april 20 2011 there are reports that a dubai sheikh is set to buy a la liga team possibly getafe and add the words team dubai to the club s name 1 this is as absurd as manchester city becoming manchester city team abu dhabi for example or chelsea becoming chelsea team chukotka only to be renamed chelsea team moscow if another report is to be given any credence 2 it betrays both a crass view of a club as the owner s plaything you can add your own bit here about fayed fulham and michael jackson here and a stunning inability to understand that a football club is essentially about local identity and local fans insert your own more positive bit about arsenal and custodians here of course it could never happen in england oh hang on though perhaps it s a bit like having the word dons in your club s name when you are not in wimbledon or as a nod to my readers north of the border in dumbarton for that matter aberdeen any offers on the most absurd possible name for an english club as x team y reflecting the whim of the owner 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 fans organisational culture ownership tagged fans organisational culture ownership 13 comments the worrying news of brazil 2014 posted by john beech on april 18 2011 on a recent work trip to poland i asked my host if he thought ukraine would be ready for euro 2012 his response was never mind ukraine i m not sure poland will be ready perhaps he was being unduly pessimistic certainly poznan s stadium is looking good already rather more worrying i would argue is the lack of preparedness for the world cup in brazil in 2014 research just published by brazil s institute for economic research ipea and reported on the sport business website 1 includes the following gems only two of 13 airport terminal construction projects are on schedule to be completed by the start of the 2014 fifa world cup in brazil a third airport might be ready for the tournament if everything goes right but the shortage of air travel provisions would cause transport problems for fans it s increasingly unlikely that these projects will be ready on time state owned airport authority infraero has a low level of efficiency in the execution of investment programs even if all 13 airport upgrades were to be ready on time 10 are expected to be operating over capacity by the time of the world cup fourteen of brazil s 20 largest airports are already operating at more than 80 of capacity the world cup is expected to attract up to one million visitors in addition to the 13 airports being upgraded for the world cup a brand new airport in natal another world cup host city still has no firm date for completion the map on the fifa website 2 makes clear how important air travel will be for fans to move between venues road and rail not being viable alternatives flying distances can be checked out here 3 rio to manaus for example is 1 765 miles almost exactly the same flying distance as london to ankara in turkey i d have to put my hand up and admit that my level of portuguese is well completely zero but if any reader can abstract more relevant info from the ipea website i d be glad to hear from them the url for the original report is i think given a google tra...