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[baldrick]

This was posted on the Millwall forum, and probably most others.


Hi all!!

I hope you'll forgive me for coming on here asking for support for a non Millwall cause but I hope you are able to help!

You may have heard of the recent plight of Salisbury City - who are being threatened with a double relegation for failing to pay off ALL debts by last weekend despite having paid all debts to creditors bar HMRC as well as continuing to pay players wages.

We have agreed a CVA with HMRC which they are happy with and despite this, The Conference see fit to consider us in breach of its rules!

We have a petition on facebook and would really appriciate your support:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128570467155691

Thanks for taking the time to read this!!

[markecky]

Matt Tubbs - £1500 per week on 800 crowds.

Sympathy ended.

[JonnyKeen]

I hope they don't get relegated, purely so FGR go down!

[Ballers]

I'm quite happy to see them go down and FGR stay up if that's how it pans out. That said if they do stay up i'll hardly be firing off an email of complaint!

[Jenga]

having paid all debts to creditors bar HMRC



I wish I could try to get away without paying my taxes !!!

The door is this way ------------------>

[Ballers]

Despite this the conference see fit to consider us as in breach of their rules.                                                                   Er, that's because you are in breach of the rules, no consideration about it. Shut the door on your way out please.

[York Alty]

i have always felt that putting football debts above the taxman was illegal.  When we say "taxman" we mean me and you. Good luck to the HMRC in their legal case.

[fuertes]

They've posted on facebook and another forum I've been on, and are getting pretty short shrift from most.

Quite why they're so indignant at being thrown out for breaching the rules, rules they were well aware of for a long time, is beyond me.

[distancetraveller]

Tough sh*t..
Salisbury chose to live outside there means and so should  pay the consequence.

Sympathy comes between sh*t and Syphilis in the dictionary   

[matnvfcmad]

Join it because it will be more than likely it will save us 2 

[taxi Phil]

That's the best reason I can think of NOT to join it.

[jamestimperleyrobin]

haha someone report it

[Narcissist]

Sometimes on here we come across as holier than thou on these matters.

And theres bloody good reason to as well! We had (chose) to pay off all of our football creditors, oh and the HRMC, and the non-footballing creditors etc etc. Its just not fair to take local businesses and the taxes paid by your fans and spunk it up the wall later on. When will fans realise that council tax they pay goes towards suporting these cretins in the community and never gets paid back.

Salisbury fans indirectly contributed towards a regime that squanders their cash. That goes for matthesaltminingnothingbettertogreenslimefan too.

Come on, get real, just call the chairman out from the start when they make these promises instead of believing you will be different. Waiting in line for the throne is the cod army 'save our cod fund' etc etc.....

I really am bored of it now but no doubt in a few months i'll jump back on my high horse to shout pointlessly about the next gang of (tw) pratts that pull the same old stunt.

Conference rules are still too generous to these people, it should be prison, thats what the rest of us would get for doing it.

[Ballers]

We have agreed a CVA with HMRC which they are happy with and despite this, The Conference see fit to consider us in breach of its rules!

HRMC aren't happy with it at all, they're absolutely furious but reluctantly think that in the circumstances it's the best they can do.

The other argunment that seems to get trotted out by clubs in these situations is that it's nothing to do with the new owners - fine, in that case you'll be happy to go back down a league to where you were before you got promoted using money that should've paid the taxman. Wouldn't want to be be accepting any gifts of promotion the former owners gave eh?

[Mick]

Some good points
As someone said earlier it's geting boring every season hearing the fans of cheating clubs bleating about being punished....getting promoted, finishing just outside the play-offs etc by playing better quality players than you can afford, whilst at the same time cheating creditors out of their own money is just that - cheating......if they conned an 80 year old pensioner out her life savings they would be on Crimewatch and get the bad press they thoroughly deserve.

"Yes but the creditors are happy", you bet they are - it's great to only get 20% of what you're owed whilst listening to the idiots on the TV tell us about the magic of the 'cup' and how the plucky NL striker picks turnips for a living on the farm
"it wasn't the current Chairman's fault, he just inherited the problem", buth then saw no reason to tackle the overspending - part-time your'e joking mate
"The rules are unfair"
"It's not the fans fault"

The list of excuses is endless