03-08-2012, 12:30 PM
URGH! SO ANGRY!
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).
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?
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).
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?