PsychedelicCeltic
20 Jan 2006, 03:42 AM
http://www.saveoursilkmen.co.uk/
A, Dear Football Fans, Yes, I know - yet another football club is on the rocks, and of course it's up to all of you to bail us out. It's the way it goes these days, and I don't blame you for feeling a bit apathetic about Macclesfield Town's current plight.....
Naturally, we were mainly optimistic about the outcome of the FA's enquiry. Of course no-one expected a pardon from the FA, but we did expect a substantial but even-handed fine that would see justice done without unnecessarily hampering the considerable efforts we've made in building a community club.
After all, the FA (according to their website) are about 'Promoting the development of the game amongst all ages, backgrounds and abilities in terms of participation and quality. This also involves promoting the availability of the sport to the greatest possible number of people.'
Perhaps I am being particularly short-sighted, but I am unsure how giving Macc a £300,000 levy to pay in six weeks quite ties in with this. Sadly it will almost certainly prevent us from helping the FA to achieve these laudable goals, due an imminent lack of existence on our part. Perhaps there is a clause in the FA's many regulations which exempts Macclesfield from this having to do any of this tedious 'promoting the availability of sport' stuff.
Macclesfield Town need to raise £300,000 to pay an FA fine for misuse of a Football Foundation grant for a stand by the club's previous board of directors. The FA gave them six weeks to pay it or the club faces insolvency.
Basically, the FA's fine will punt Macclesfield Town out of existence unless football supporters help to save them.
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1677406,00.html
Guardian article detailing the story.
A, Dear Football Fans, Yes, I know - yet another football club is on the rocks, and of course it's up to all of you to bail us out. It's the way it goes these days, and I don't blame you for feeling a bit apathetic about Macclesfield Town's current plight.....
Naturally, we were mainly optimistic about the outcome of the FA's enquiry. Of course no-one expected a pardon from the FA, but we did expect a substantial but even-handed fine that would see justice done without unnecessarily hampering the considerable efforts we've made in building a community club.
After all, the FA (according to their website) are about 'Promoting the development of the game amongst all ages, backgrounds and abilities in terms of participation and quality. This also involves promoting the availability of the sport to the greatest possible number of people.'
Perhaps I am being particularly short-sighted, but I am unsure how giving Macc a £300,000 levy to pay in six weeks quite ties in with this. Sadly it will almost certainly prevent us from helping the FA to achieve these laudable goals, due an imminent lack of existence on our part. Perhaps there is a clause in the FA's many regulations which exempts Macclesfield from this having to do any of this tedious 'promoting the availability of sport' stuff.
Macclesfield Town need to raise £300,000 to pay an FA fine for misuse of a Football Foundation grant for a stand by the club's previous board of directors. The FA gave them six weeks to pay it or the club faces insolvency.
Basically, the FA's fine will punt Macclesfield Town out of existence unless football supporters help to save them.
http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1677406,00.html
Guardian article detailing the story.