Catch up Chris, The reason we were not at risk of losing 10 points is in capital letters quoted at the top of your post.
No Smiffy, what i mean is, if you
had gone into administration, would you have been deducted ten points? I don't think you would have because that law was not in force when you had financial problems. You as a club were able to work it out with your debters to pay all your debts off in full, whereas we were not. We took administration as a very, very last resort otherwise there wouldn't have been a Cambridge United today. Our debts were mainly tax problems, and they were not budging on deadlines. We had no option. It's admirable what you did as a club to pay off your debts in full, and it would have been nice for us to do the same... but we couldn't.
Incidentally, was this investment reliant on you staying up or would it have gone ahead anyway.
No Ballers, the investment would not have been there had we gone down. Just to comment on that, the NLP made it out as though we have had millions pumped into the club and we are about to become 'rich-boys' which just isn't true. We actually haven't had any investment yet from the Americans and when they do, it will be in installments that will eventually total £600,000. You made some interesting comments about our problems being consequences and not a punishment. I can see your point but looking from a CUFC point of view it certainly feels like a punishment!