Bye Bye Chester

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Chester City wound up by High Court

Chester City have been wound up in the High Court after their failure to pay a tax bill - but a fans' group have vowed to resurrect the club.

City were liquidated over debts owed to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in a brief hearing on Wednesday morning.

The crisis club were expelled from the Football Conference last month after a breach of five Conference rules.

But David Evans of Chester City Fans United told Sky Sports News: "125 years of history have been extinguished today but that's just the body of the club - its soul lives on."

A new club, along the lines of AFC Wimbledon, is the group's goal and Evans continued: "Today is the day to say to everybody that our club will be run in a professional way and be a credit to our city and to football.
"Our model is AFC Wimbledon or AFC Telford, where a new club has been run on a very prudent basis.

"We want to atone for the way the club has been run - we see this as our responsibility even though it wasn't our fault."

Source : http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,2483_6013540,00.html

 

[Kyras]

Such a shame for the fans.

Wasn't the debt something silly like £25k?

 

[bigturnip]

Such a shame for the fans.

Wasn't the debt something silly like £25k?

But the government is skint, they need every penny they can get.

Then again they didn't even bother to turn up to court, so nobody to blame but themselves.

 

[MrWoolley]

It's a shame for all the fans. Hopefully they can do an AFC Wimbledon and get going again.

 

[Phantom]

125 year old club gone to the wall for such a pittance is a crying shame.

 

[Son_Of]

and cardiff and pompey in trouble. to think utaka's salary for a week is much more than chester's entire debt

 

[Cicada]

Southend are also in serious risk as well

 

[Bill_Oddie]

The debt in question is pitiful but their situation is worthy of such action. Dreadful. They have failed to fulfill three fixtures this season because they have not paid the police so they couldn't keep working. They also failed to pay long overdue bills for team coaches so had the embarrassing situation of not being allowed to go to an away game. It's been going on for some time.

Such a shame. I remember seeing Chester several times. Think Kevin Ratcliffe used to be their boss. Have a vague recollection of sharing a jar with him at Brighton in my salad (name-dropping) days.

 

[ShelfSide18]

I remember we played them in the Coca Cola cup way back in my early season ticket days.

Shame that a club just goes like that, couldn't imagine Spurs just going like that.