Times have been desperate at Conference club Kettering Town FC. They owe about £250,000 to various creditors including Crawley Town FC which means they have been placed under a transfer embargo. They are down to just ten contracted players and no coach could be provided to take the players to yesterday’s 5-0 defeat at Luton. They are now perilously close to the relegation zone.
Times have been desperate at Conference club Kettering Town FC. They owe about £250,000 to various creditors including Crawley Town FC which means they have been placed under a transfer embargo. They are down to just ten contracted players and no coach could be provided to take the players to yesterday’s 5-0 defeat at Luton. They are now perilously close to the relegation zone.
However, better times may be on the horizon. Current owner Imraan Ladak has run out of money to bankroll the club. A takeover bid is imminent which would still see a role for Ladak. It involves controversial ex-Wemouth and Cambridge United chairman George Rolls and former Rushden backer Colin Hill. However, Rolls has now described the reports linking him with Kettering as ‘comical’.
Hill is the Poppies’ landlord at Nene Park, Irthlingborough, the former home of Rushden and Diamonds. This is some miles down the A14 from Kettering, but Ladak was unable to secure what he regarded as satisfactory terms for an extension of the lease at their former Rockingham Road ground which was repossessed by baliffs just before Christmas. The Supporters’ Trust had been using the social club there to raise funds.