Southend United FC

[OP67]

I'm still waiting for the government to reclaim the ferlough money they were paid seeing as they were given insurance payments for the pandemic...!!

You'll be waiting a loooooooooong time for that. There's 1000's of companies and non companies to reclaim from that sh*tshow

[OchPie]

Deducted ten points for non-payment of the debt to HMRC.

[slack_pie]

Deducted ten points for non-payment of the debt to HMRC.

Feel for the fans. That could so easily have been us.

[OchPie]

In court on Wednesday, the judge warned Martin that the club, founded in 1906, would be wound up if the new deadline of 4 October was missed.

"If this was not a football club, with the attachment of its fans, I would be winding it up today," Judge Sebastian Prentis said. "This has got to be sorted out".

Ouch.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66591344

[durhampie]

There's nothing like kicking a club when they are down..

[countygump]

There's nothing like kicking a club when they are down..

As with the 10pt deduction, it's always the club and the fans that get penalised, not the dodgy rsole of an owner.

Players and staff being paid late, club in turmoil, let's give them another kicking.

[upthemaggies]

Points deductions should have been binned after the 2008/09 fiasco when we had three L2 clubs deducted at least 17 points and another deducted 10. It makes a complete mockery of the game when the outcome is being decided off the pitch by people in suits. I suppose Football can only do so much though and that you'd need a change in financial laws and regulations to be able to punish the people responsible and to force and keep them out of the game. The Southend owner has just been on talksport making excuses, but it sounds like he's just holding out for what least impacts him personally as he stands to lose out if they go into admin, a scenario we're very familiar with.

[uysapie]

Points deductions should have been binned after the 2008/09 fiasco when we had three L2 clubs deducted at least 17 points and another deducted 10. It makes a complete mockery of the game when the outcome is being decided off the pitch by people in suits. I suppose Football can only do so much though and that you'd need a change in financial laws and regulations to be able to punish the people responsible and to force and keep them out of the game. The Southend owner has just been on talksport making excuses, but it sounds like he's just holding out for what least impacts him personally as he stands to lose out if they go into admin, a scenario we're very familiar with.

The NL made it very clear what the conditions of the licence werewhen they allowed Southend to start the season.

Southend will not be put into administation if this is not sorted by October, they will be wound up.

[upthemaggies]

The NL made it very clear what the conditions of the licence werewhen they allowed Southend to start the season.

Southend will not be put into administation if this is not sorted by October, they will be wound up.

Owner reckons the NL have no legal basis for docking them points and didn't come across as being overly concerned about the 42 day deadline, but he's probably full of it.

[queenslandpie]

Well supported propor club with a right plonker in charge. I hope he rots and they get new owners as is suggested they will.