They should never be allowed to airbrush history and move on in a 'There's Nothing To See Here' style. I honestly don't know what is complicated about this. They went into administration, failed to emerge from it and were liquidated. As a consequence they ceased to exist and could not therefore fulfill fixtures so fell out of the league. They then reformed as new Club/company and re applied to join the league. Thinking they could by pass every league regulation in existence they thought they could get re admitted to the top league, but ultimately, correctly, the member clubs would not sanction it. Indeed loads of rules were broken for them to even get in at the bottom rung.

Further there are corporation laws specifically outlawing the very practice they carried out - I.e. liquidating, walking away from debts and responsibilities then setting up the next day as a 'new' entity that somehow still operates out of the same offices, carrying out the same business, wearing the same 'uniforms' and, worse, brazenly proclaiming still that this new company was 'established' in 1873. Imagine if Kwik Fit went bust, diddled HMRC and many others out of millions, but then set up the next day as Qwick Fit, wearing blue uniforms and selling tyres and claiming they had done this for years. Come to think of it they couldn't, because it's ILLEGAL.