CRABS SNIPPED;Os OUT?

The Oystons are in the news again. Remember them? As owners of the club they apparently have been fleecing Blackpool FC for a few years now and it appears it hasn't got any better. There is a court case pending with the Owners v the President of the club who claims that club money is being stripped.

Would you put your club in his hands?

You think the Seasiders are having a bad time, then what about the Crabs? Yes, Cromer Town FC are having an even worse time. They have folded!
Their season record in the Almary Green Anglian Combination Premier was: P30 D1 L29 F22 A153 and they had a point deducted for playing an illegal player, so NIL POINTS.

If you read their website then there are tales of woe with the poor manager/coach, Lee Hackleton, facing many off pitch and latterly on pitch problems. The committee has published a heart rending statement about "off field issues", losing volunteers and no sponsors. The only fund raising now is bingo in the clubhouse and the lucrative car boot sales have been scrapped due to health and safety reasons-see below.

Lee came along during the season to a job that "no one else would touch". He had a small core of players available but there were late shows or no shows so that, a match against Caister eneded up with only 9 men in Cromer shirts.

The Ladies team has suffered similar problems and thankfully the Youth team is surviving and will inherit the clubhouse at Cabbell Park (not Crabbell??) part of which is being developed into a health centre affecting the space used for Car Boot Sales!

Worse is:-
Ferring FC (Sussex) in the Macron Southern Combination League Div 2 recorded: P28 L28 F14 A 300 (it looks as though they planned the 300th goal against??). BUT

the Ferring Girls U16s are county champions, so maybe there is hope!

Worryingly, a huge number of clubs fold every year. Some others form but.......

ps I started this with the intention of writing about Leyton Orient.....never got there.