At first when it was announced I thought the Real Bedford thing would be one of these fly by night takeovers where McCormack was completely over promising with grand statements about making them an EFL club and " Cryptos football club" only to disappear 3 months later.
But it seems like he's made it work and got serious investors too.
McCormack is a bit of a ****end but he is making a success at running a football club. The investment they have for a 7th tier side is ridiculous and the rivalry between them and Bedford Town (despite not yet playing) seems to have helped the latter too, who have now gone up to the National League North for the first time in 19 years.
McCormack does a fair bit of good with a decent chunk of investment in the grassroots game in Bedford for both boys and girls but spoils it all with his comments at times.
Their biggest challenge will be their ground. It won’t be up to standard for higher divisions and the mayor is seemingly anti letting them build anything in a decent location in town, whilst it already seems that the Rugby club and Bedford Town won’t be ground sharing. I think they’ll probably do well in the 7th tier, going up first time or if not second time, but the 6th tier may be were they first start to linger for a while
Chelmsford city playing arsenal today (u18s probably) in their last preseason friendly. They've recently come into some money with a new owner, who is a long term fan, and have turned professional. I think all but one player is new, and got a newanager as well. Will be an interesting to see how quickly, if at all, it gels together
The football league need to be held responsible, but that would be far too simplistic. What is the actual point of this freeloading clan How can you describe the chairman as being capable
When you say the Football League do you mean The FA or National League? Hopefully the Football Regulator will be able to do something on this in the future. However, I am not sure what the regulators of the competitions can actually do other than close down clubs from competitions. If you recall, at one stage Duchatalet was calling for the EFL to buy Charlton and presumably pass his ownership on to someone else, not sure if there is anything else the regulators could do and I doubt we would want the regulators to become the brokers of club sales at any level.
Maybe others who were involved in the CARD activity have a greater idea of what could be done in the immediate situation other than expelling clubs from competitions, in these extreme situations.
As the headline says Lisa Nandy has written to the owner telling him to sell the club.
Also, the academy manager has said all the academy players are still there and won't be released until the club actually folds (which could be any day now). If the sale actually goes through the academy players are likely to get a game as most of the players have left.
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But it seems like he's made it work and got serious investors too.
McCormack does a fair bit of good with a decent chunk of investment in the grassroots game in Bedford for both boys and girls but spoils it all with his comments at times.
Their biggest challenge will be their ground. It won’t be up to standard for higher divisions and the mayor is seemingly anti letting them build anything in a decent location in town, whilst it already seems that the Rugby club and Bedford Town won’t be ground sharing. I think they’ll probably do well in the 7th tier, going up first time or if not second time, but the 6th tier may be were they first start to linger for a while
Maybe others who were involved in the CARD activity have a greater idea of what could be done in the immediate situation other than expelling clubs from competitions, in these extreme situations.
As the headline says Lisa Nandy has written to the owner telling him to sell the club.
Also, the academy manager has said all the academy players are still there and won't be released until the club actually folds (which could be any day now). If the sale actually goes through the academy players are likely to get a game as most of the players have left.