Blue Square North side Northwich Victoria may be relegated after winning a fight against expulsion last season. Appendix E of the Conference rules states that clubs must pay all their creditors everything they are owed by the second Saturday in May. Northwich agreed a deal with their creditors of just over 40p in the pound. The conference has insisted that every club knew the rules before the season started. Northwich could appeal to the FA. The rule has been criticised as harsh, but if it is applied flexibly it ceases to be a rule and will be disregarded.
Blue Square North side Northwich Victoria may be relegated after winning a fight against expulsion last season. Appendix E of the Conference rules states that clubs must pay all their creditors everything they are owed by the second Saturday in May. Northwich agreed a deal with their creditors of just over 40p in the pound. The conference has insisted that every club knew the rules before the season started. Northwich could appeal to the FA. The rule has been criticised as harsh, but if it is applied flexibly it ceases to be a rule and will be disregarded.
Elsewhere in the Conference, the woes of Chester City FC continue. The Conference are demanding emergency talks with club officials after they failed to turn up for a general meeting. On Wednesday they face a winding up order over the £26,000 they owe the taxman. Now fans have started a boycott of home matches through City Fans United. Just 426 bothered to turn up to attend a Blue Square Premiership home fixture last week. Chester have still not paid their players’ wages from November and December and have been rebuffed in their request to boxing promoter Frank Warren to save the club.