If Macc are wound up it would be 2 great rivals we have beaten without doing it on the pitch. THAT will be a great shame.
If Macclesfield are fully wound up and liquidated and re-enter at counties level, out of curiosity, who would people then consider our main, realistic rival. For me you can either go historical and say someone like Barrow or look at more recent years in particular and say (and I'm sure many will disagree) Chester.
Chester and Stockport I would say
W!tton Albion for me, I'm still not over '95, and I didn't even stay for the 'afters'!
Though saying that, I met a Chester supporter on Snowdon recently who said he hates us as we always beat them and hopes we go down. Seeing as they're desperate to be our rival... they are funny though, Chester!
More seriously, who else has failed the fit and proper persons test since Stevie Vaughan (the first one to fail it) did over another of our Cheshire rivals, and what has changed since then? For instance, if someone initially passes the test but new information comes to light at any later date, I would really hope that a mechanism is in place to allow their ownership of a club to be reassessed. Something really needs to be done to stop these chancers exploiting football clubs.
And of course this must be a reminder to us to keep up an unceasing vigilance to make sure that such a situation can never ever happen to our club. That is one of the things that pleases me most in recent years, that we are now a million miles away from the situations we faced in the dark times.
If we go up (you never know!) and Wigan go down (more likely), could the rivalry be revived? It used to be quite strong I understand. I didn't even know of it when we played them in 1994, but I presume quite a few supporters still remembered it at the time. I seem to remember at a recent friendly, some Wigan supporters sang the red red robin song, which I was slightly surprised by.