Is there anyone interested in buying a debt free, mid-table Conference club for £1? If you are, then get in touch with Salisbury City, although you would have to dig deep into your pockets to subsidise the team. The current directors will relinquish control next month. Chairman Neville Beal commented, ‘We couldn’t dig any deeper. We have put a lot of money, but clubs at this [Blue Square Premier] level need a bit more.’ Earlier this season sponsors and supporters tried to raise £100,000 to underwrite wages, but only managed to raise £35,000.
Is there anyone interested in buying a debt free, mid-table Conference club for £1? If you are, then get in touch with Salisbury City, although you would have to dig deep into your pockets to subsidise the team. The current directors will relinquish control next month. Chairman Neville Beal commented, ‘We couldn’t dig any deeper. We have put a lot of money, but clubs at this [Blue Square Premier] level need a bit more.’ Earlier this season sponsors and supporters tried to raise £100,000 to underwrite wages, but only managed to raise £35,000. The club was saved from liquidation in 2002 when it was in the Southern League’s then Eastern Division. Beal reckons there is enough interest in the town for a buyer to step in. Salisbury is a sufficiently big place to support a top level non-league side, but although I do not know it very well, it does not strike me as a football town. It very much has a cathedral city atmosphere, and although the impression given by the tourist zone may be misleading, one is left wondering whether there really is enough interest, a concern supported by rather disappointing attendances for the level of football on offer.