And We Thought We Were In A Mess

[Ben the Pie]

Thanks CBP, yeah that sounds tight for them...at least they have a chance even if it's a stay of execution. Fingers x'd for them.

[binghampies]

Wasn't it a few years back the Bolton chairman. who wanted the premier league a closed shop. so no one could get relegated ??? (obviously they were in the premiership at the time)

[lunaspie]

The last team I remember going out of the Football League before the end of the season was Accrington Stanley. They resigned in March 1962 and all their results were expunged (what a great word), thus the final Division 4 league table that season showed every team playing only 44 games.

Their demise was due to unpaid transfer fees of £4,000, a similar amount owing to the Inland Revenue, plus further creditors that came to light at a creditors’ meeting shortly after their last League game, a 4-0 defeat at Crewe.

Aldershot folded in March '92,unable to complete the season after not winning any of the previous 16 games - their last win being against Maidstone,who themselves dissolved five months later.