Farewll Kettering Town

[gripper stebson]

... for debts of £58,000.

Put's some of todays nonsense in perspective. Hope their fans find a new home.

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-09-02/final-whistle-for-kettering-town/

 

[mikeyjh]

... for debts of £58,000.

Put's some of todays nonsense in perspective. Hope their fans find a new home.

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-09-02/final-whistle-for-kettering-town/

Given that, at the time of writing, Gareth Bale has earned £10,030 since lunchtime, football really is a crap business sometimes.

 

[kevo]

Given that, at the time of writing, Gareth Bale has earned £10,030 since lunchtime, football really is a crap business sometimes.

Amazing to think he could donate just a fifth of his wages from one week and save a football club which has been going for 140 years. I get the feeling he won't, though.

 

[portslade seagull]

Maybe even if some of the premiershite clubs banded together mind you they normally suck the last drop of blood from the stone so maybe not eh

 

[banjo]

The Premiership will kill football at a lower level in the end.

 

[The Wookiee]

Haven't palace put a bid in ??

 

[Perfidious Albion]

I have been to the old Rockingham Road ground to watch them in the Conference - just once ...it was pretty rough even then when they lived in the shadow of then moneybags Rushden & Diamonds...It is sad to see a club go, but the well run ones survive and progress at the expense of those that have not been run

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Sean Dyche, the Burnley manager, was born in Kettering. How the hell does he not dip his hand into his pocket to save the club of his hometown?

 

[catfish]

Really sad news.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Amazing to think he could donate just a fifth of his wages from one week and save a football club which has been going for 140 years. I get the feeling he won't, though.

Yup - 36 hours work for our Gareth. And 30 of those he would be asleep.

 

[poidy]

Everything Gazza touches goes to shit

 

[Insel affe]

Everything Gazza touches goes to shit

Dude that is a bit harsh, he did not throw money around it was the chairman.

 

[upthealbion1970]

Everything Gazza touches goes to shit

Did palace bid on it and did gazza touch Dobbie?

 

[kevo]

Everything Gazza touches goes to shit

Maybe Gazza could help them out - or has he spent all his dosh on booze?

 

[surrey jim]

Believe they were the first team to have shirt sponsorship back in the 1970s

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Believe they were the first team to have shirt sponsorship back in the 1970s

Certainly were! in the UK, anyway.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

That's bloody terrible. The ridiculous levels of financial disparity between the so-called elite & football's root & branch clubs is nothing short of abhorrent. Sadly unless the governing bodies do something - and soon: the plight of Kettering Town will become an all too familiar scenario. Out of existence for being 58 thousand quid in debt eh? Football should hang it's collective heads in shame.

 

[Gullys Cats]

Sad news!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I don't recall anyone reaching out to save Aldershot, Maidstone, Third Lanark etc, when they went tits up. Spare me the hypocritical whinging. Nothing has changed, except perhaps the armchair sentimentality, which is clearly worse.

 

[atfc village]

There problems have been going on for years ,they'll come back in a different guise.