Away from Wayne Rooney’s hat-trick at Portsmouth, goals galore at Upton Park and the exciting FA Cup 2nd round matches, an uglier side of football showed its face yesterday. The Chester City v Eastbourne Borough match in the Blue Square Premier was abandoned during the second-half. Not because of a sudden downpour but an outpouring of frustration by many dozens of Chester City supporters on the way their club (which is on the verge of extinction) is run.
In October 2001, I was reporting on a match at the Deva Stadium for the BBC. Most CCFC supporters who sat by the press box were concerned then about their club’s future and it would appear that their suffering has continued unabated for the past several years. Dr John Beech in his Football Management blog highlights the recent activity (A) (B) (C) at the troubled Cheshire club.
Readers of Dr Beech’s blog will have noticed that many clubs in the lower echelons of the football pyramid are under threat. In the next few days, we’ll see whether the clubs that represent Weymouth, King’s Lynn and Chester will be added to the list of “gone but not forgotten” which contains previous incarnations of Romford, Bedford and Guildford City together with the totally expired South Liverpool, Lovells Athletic, Rainham & Baldock Town.
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