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Kuwaitis swoop for Blue Square South side

Submitted by WG on Mon, 13/05/2013 - 12:44

Foreign investment now reaches into the second level of the non-league pyramid with Kuwaiti firm KEH Sports Ltd. acquiring Ebbsfleet United.   A subsidiary of the Kuwaiti European Holding Company, they have been advised by former Charlton Athletic chief executive Peter Varney.

Kuwaiti company gears up for European football investment

Submitted by WG on Tue, 30/04/2013 - 08:41

Former Charlton chief executive Peter Varney has been appointed as chief executive of a Kuwaiti company seeking to make investments in European football. KEH were founded in 2008 and up to now have focused on real estate, tourism and health care.

KEH have extensive property investments interests in Sussex, including a major property development at Newhaven which includes a water park. They also own the Ambassador hotel on the Eastbourne seafront.

Search for new Conference sponsor is on

Submitted by WG on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 06:19

With the completion of the takeover of loss-making Blue Square by Betfair, the search for a new sponsor for the Football Conference is on. Indeed, the Football League does not have a headline sponsor for next season. Undoubtedly a sponsor will be found in both cases: the real question is how much they are prepared to pay.

Truro may ground share with Argyle

Submitted by WG on Fri, 15/03/2013 - 19:40

Truro City, who have been through a very troubled period, may have to share with Plymouth Argyle next season. It is stated that the ground share would only be 'temporary', although this turns out to mean three years. It would face fans with a 107-mile round trip and take the club that aspires to be Cornwall's leading football team out of the county and across the River Tamar into Devon.

Fans unhappy about Bath City plans

Submitted by WG on Mon, 28/01/2013 - 09:45

Bath City are facing debts of £700,000.   Their stadium Mayday Trust Park (aka Twerton Park) is run down and chairman Mandy Rigby considers that they should move to a purpose built stadium elsewhere in the city.   However, the Bath City Supporters' Society, the largest shareholders in the club, are unhappy about her plans and what they see as a lack of consultation.

Conference may need new sponsor

Submitted by WG on Sun, 13/01/2013 - 09:59

The Conference may be looking for a new sponsor with the future of Blue Square Bet in doubt.   The future of Blue Square Bet , who are in their sixth season of sponorship, is being reviewed by owners Rank Group.   The business is running at an operating loss and Rank wants to concentrate its resources on its bingo and casino activities.

Truro City saved at the last minute

Submitted by WG on Fri, 19/10/2012 - 18:31

I have rarely seen as many twists and turns in the saga of a football club in trouble, but Truro City have been saved from expulsion from the Conference at the last minute.   An initial 12 noon deadline was extended to 17.00 BST.

Truro City given another chance

Submitted by WG on Mon, 15/10/2012 - 08:58

Truro City now seem to have been given more reprieves than the average prisoner on an American death row.   The latest stay of execution is for one week.

To be fair to the Conference, who held an emergency board meeting to discuss the issue, it's a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't.   The Conference have been criticised for giving clubs too much rope, but also for doing not enough to help them.

The end of Truro City Football Club

Submitted by WG on Fri, 12/10/2012 - 08:27

Truro City Football Club has been suspended from the Football Conference and is now likely to be liquidated.  The football authorities bent over backwards to help the club, extending the final deadline by half an hour.  But although the club was able to produce a £10,000 bond from Cornwall County Council to fund its next run of games, this was well short of the £50,000 the Conference required.

Another reprieve for Truro City

Submitted by WG on Thu, 04/10/2012 - 17:03

It may seem  a bit like the condemned man who has become a fixture on death row being given another short stay of execution, but the latest news about Truro City does offer a slim hope that they might escape extinction.