The stadium that bankrupted a football club

[parmoboy]

Came across this video the other day, found it to be a good watch.

Always had a soft spot for Darlo, such a shame that one man could essentially kill a football club.

 

[morrissey]

It was a real shame - a daft vanity project.
Feethams was a crackin' stadium for their league/crowd size etc, they should gave stayed right there.

 

[northernrower]

I thought this was going to be about Everton!

 

[parmoboy]

It was a real shame - a daft vanity project.
Feethams was a crackin' stadium for their league/crowd size etc, they should gave stayed right there.

Yeah, I went to the last ever game played at Feethams.

Went to see them in the new stadium a year later and there can't have been more than 5,000 inside the stadium. Felt bizarre.

 

[Littlejimmy]

Really quite sad, like a microcosm of what the Tories (Reynolds) have done to this country.

 

[BoroMart]

I thought this was going to be about Everton!

I thought it was gonna be about Valencia

 

[fmttmadmin]

Great little film though.

 

[Rofesleg]

I remember the prequel: "The Sports Hall that bankrupted a football club".

 

[Davey_C]

Build it and they will come ... didn't quite work out that way

Had darlo managed to reach the championship they may have got close to 10k crowds with a large away following (and probably police bill to match)

 

[Emmersons_BrazillianDong]

I really enjoyed that. Cheers for sharing

 

[BlackHallRocker]

Prefer Pools myself & there's been a few close shaves of late with them also going down the drain .

 

[madlad7773]

Came across this video the other day, found it to be a good watch.

Always had a soft spot for Darlo, such a shame that one man could essentially kill a football club.

Happened to Bury FC. Steve Dale absolutely destroyed them and the FA/EFL should take a lot of responsibility for their demise. Not fit to be an owner.

 

[parmoboy]

Happened to Bury FC. Steve Dale absolutely destroyed them and the FA/EFL should take a lot of responsibility for their demise. Not fit to be an owner.

Yeah, I remember he had that many companies declared bankrupt you wouldn’t trust him to own a burger van, and yet he passed the test to own a football club.

FFP has helped with this to an extent but you still get owners who are prepared to bend the rules.

It's just a shame there isn't more owners like Gibson who are prepared to take on the rule breakers.

 

[BlackHallRocker]

Did it do any good for Gibson when he did the Derby County thing ?

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

Did it do any good for Gibson when he did the Derby County thing ?

It got the club some money I think? More importantly it shows others that we are keeping on eye out for financial doping and will take action, that can't be a bad thing.

 

[BlackHallRocker]

It got the club some money I think? More importantly it shows others that we are keeping on eye out for financial doping and will take action, that can't be a bad thing.

OK I didn't realise the club received compensation with the Derby affair, All the same I don't agree with the pricing these days there is no value for the money he is asking I could understand it in the Ravenelli / Juninho days with high wages and class football but not now

 

[theredrooster]

She has some good football related videos on YouTube does stuntpeg. YouTube advertising must be paying out a canny whack mind to fund her jetting around the globe visiting footy matches.

 

[Rofesleg]

Did it do any good for Gibson when he did the Derby County thing ?

£3 million

 

[homesickblues]

Some people would blame the Tories for the weather

 

[fmttmadmin]

OK I didn't realise the club received compensation with the Derby affair, All the same I don't agree with the pricing these days there is no value for the money he is asking I could understand it in the Ravenelli / Juninho days with high wages and class football but not now

Boro estimate that a club needs to pay out £21/22m per year on players wage bill to compete in top six.
Every year they analyse all the competitors and so arrive at this figure from stringent research.