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This is just plain horrible (greedy businessmen killing sport again)
03-08-2012, 12:30 PM
Post: #1
This is just plain horrible (greedy businessmen killing sport again)
URGH! SO ANGRY! PissedOff

There's a little soccer club just outside of Carlisle called Gillford Park. They started back in 2005 & were promoted this summer to play at the ninth level of the English football pyramid, their highest ever & a great achievement as most local football clubs in the Lake District struggle to survive in the shadow of Carlisle United (who aren't even all that big, being a third level club).

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Gillford Park still only get about 36 fans going to watch them, but between the fans and the club they raised enough money to upgrade the land they had a 25 year lease from the Carlisle & District Railway Club on with floodlights & two lovely stands to be allowed to be promoted, & to play in the F.A. Cup (the world's oldest football competition) for the first time.

All of a sudden the C&D Railway Club wanted them chucked out because they supposedly had someone offering more money to lease the ground (now that it had been done up!). Rumours were that Carlisle United suddenly saw them as a "threat" & wanted to use the ground for their "youth academy". Others were that Carlisle Centurions Rugby Club wanted exclusive use of the ground for their pretentions of becoming a professional Rugby League club (just as so many Rugby League clubs are going bankrupt!).

Cue an expensive court case the little guys needed money to fight. Along came some money spiders offering money to do that in return for a "say" in how the club was run - ones involved in very dubious past takeover attempts at Carlisle United & who destroyed former Scottish league club Clydebank (they sold the ground for a supermarket, tried "moving" the club first to Carlisle, then Dublin, but when told that would not be allowed pulled the plug on it leaving their fans having to start a new club from scratch in the non-leagues).

No sooner have they been brought on board, the club was given the ludicrous rename "Celtic Nation" & are buying players on £500 a week wages, the sort only a third tier club could afford. Everyone is suspicious as to their intentions, especially as these people are firing lawyers gag notices at anyone questioning out loud what is going on, including the handful of fans.

It's rich men playing a real life version of the computer game "Football Manager", & devil take the hindmost when they get bored with their new toy & abandon it, probably with tonnes of debts that will cause the club to fold, same as happened with poor Gretna nearby.

Why is it everytime someone does something good, there's always some pr*ck determined to ruin it for everyone else?

Egyptiandance Wacko Fryingpan

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03-08-2012, 03:33 PM
Post: #2
RE: This is just plain horrible (greedy businessmen killing sport again)
Aw, 36 fans! They did well to upgrade their stadium, must have done some impressive fund-raising. It is horrible when things like this happen, but that's People for you. Tis why I generally prefer trees - shady in a good way.
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30-04-2013, 11:34 PM
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RE: This is just plain horrible (greedy businessmen killing sport again)
This one's getting resurrected as events are taking a sinister turn.

Mike Wadsworth - he that every club he joins goes into administration within the year &/or has everyone at each others throats within weeks (Carlisle, Shrewsbury, Darlington, Gretna, Chester City) - has now been made boss of poor Gillford Park ("Celtic Nation") along with pet toadie Davie Irons.

There's been rumours that Wadsworth has also been seeing Charlie Green lately, the until recently CEO of Rangers, both having known one another for years. Some are wondering is this more of "the right sort" being put into place once "Celtic Nation" have shot far enough up the pyramid so that Rangers can take them over & get the English league place they crave?

(If so, would you want fans that rioted last night & smashed up another club's ground during an Under 17 match?) Shocked

There's similar accusations being made against two clubs in the English pyramid that play at Park Hall in Oswestry & which have "joined at the hip" links to The New Saints.

The FA really need to make a clear statement that they will not allow clubs from other leagues to use other clubs as Trojan horses to gain entry into the Football League or Conference. Nip it in the bud before it starts.

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01-05-2013, 06:51 PM (This post was last modified: 01-05-2013 07:37 PM by Caspin.)
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RE: This is just plain horrible (greedy businessmen killing sport again)
All sounds mighty dodgy. Not sure the FA are big on giving clear statements.....

There's just far too much corruption and big money involved in the whole sorry thing. Shame it can't just be about sport isn't it!

I feel that I do not know enough about these people and these matters. I should undertake some reading.
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