Ken Anderson - Old Owner (Definitely. For Ever ..... )

[Lost Leopard Spot]

But as of this morning we still exist as a club.
We even have a game tomorrow.
Bolton Unicorns.

[bristol_Wanderer3]

Article sums up the turmoil well, both in human and practical terms.

Nixon suggests that the geezer last in the news two years ago for being sued for failing to pay his rent (RENT!), who suggested he will purchase without backers, hasn't come up with proof of having £30m to spunk on a football club that will likely haemorrhage £1m per month from the second any takeover is completed. Who knew?

The bus has broken through some barricades and is still heading for the cliff edge at full speed. The driver is still staring and grinning manically. The only option now seems to be shoot at and blow out the tyres (aka as the Moonshift recall option), and hope that everyone survives the ensuing carnage. The problem is no one knows if the marksman can shoot straight...

The bigger problem is that the marksmen only likely exists in the mind of an enthusiastic nutjob......

Yes Howard has left everyone distorted and confused. I mean the option is real, it is viewable for everyone to see at Companies House, it is just whether someone is prepared to exercise it, or whether it can be challenged and delayed? And moreover is anyone ultimately interested in purchasing the club, in an act of what has always looked like financial insanity?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Article sums up the turmoil well, both in human and practical terms.

Nixon suggests that the geezer last in the news two years ago for being sued for failing to pay his rent (RENT!), who suggested he will purchase without backers, hasn't come up with proof of having £30m to spunk on a football club that will likely haemorrhage £1m per month from the second any takeover is completed. Who knew?

The bus has broken through some barricades and is still heading for the cliff edge at full speed. The driver is still staring and grinning manically. The only option now seems to be shoot at and blow out the tyres (aka as the Moonshift recall option), and hope that everyone survives the ensuing carnage. The problem is no one knows if the marksman can shoot straight...

The bigger problem is that the marksmen only likely exists in the mind of an enthusiastic nutjob......

Yes Howard has left everyone distorted and confused. I mean the option is real, it is viewable for everyone to see at Companies House, it is just whether someone is prepared to exercise it, or whether it can be challenged and delayed? And moreover is anyone ultimately interested in purchasing the club, in an act of what has always looked like financial insanity?

Are we really still giving any reliabity to Howard? He may as well have been BWFCi having a wet dream!

[bristol_Wanderer3]

But as of this morning we still exist as a club.
We even have a game tomorrow.
Bolton Unicorns.

In the voice of James Alexander Gordon (RIP): Bolton Unicorns 0 Middlesbrough Meltdowners 3....

[BWFC_Insane]

Article sums up the turmoil well, both in human and practical terms.

Nixon suggests that the geezer last in the news two years ago for being sued for failing to pay his rent (RENT!), who suggested he will purchase without backers, hasn't come up with proof of having £30m to spunk on a football club that will likely haemorrhage £1m per month from the second any takeover is completed. Who knew?

The bus has broken through some barricades and is still heading for the cliff edge at full speed. The driver is still staring and grinning manically. The only option now seems to be shoot at and blow out the tyres (aka as the Moonshift recall option), and hope that everyone survives the ensuing carnage. The problem is no one knows if the marksman can shoot straight...

The bigger problem is that the marksmen only likely exists in the mind of an enthusiastic nutjob......

Yes Howard has left everyone distorted and confused. I mean the option is real, it is viewable for everyone to see at Companies House, it is just whether someone is prepared to exercise it, or whether it can be challenged and delayed? And moreover is anyone ultimately interested in purchasing the club, in an act of what has always looked like financial insanity?

I suspect its not an option that exists in the real world - given the legal challenge could take years and the mess that ensues leave the club even more precariously balanced during that time.

There is no logical reason for anyone to buy us. Other than "they love us and have money spare". That is what worries me.

[Hoboh]

Has Ken gone yet?

[Athertonian]

It has come to a point where this club is on the verge of complete collapse, it is hanging on by the fingers. If the club hasn't been purchased very soon, by someone able to sustain it then I fear the worst. There are many clubs like us, surviving from week to week and as soon as one club goes a few more will follow.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

It has come to a point where this club is on the verge of complete collapse, it is hanging on by the fingers. If the club hasn't been purchased very soon, by someone able to sustain it then I fear the worst. There are many clubs like us, surviving from week to week and as soon as one club goes a few more will follow.

Just on the last bit, it's been said since at least the early/mid-80s (a period I lived through but have also been extensively researching recently). I'm not entirely sure it's true. The former Football League president (and Notts County chairman) Jack Dunnett is on record as saying the League were prepared to drop to 70 clubs through "natural wastage", but apart from Aldershot and Maidstone both collapsing in 1992 there's been very little evidence of domino theory.

Sadly, mate, I can't argue with the rest of your post.

[TonyDomingos]

Anyone got a scooby as to what's happening? I think today is the day that it's possible for someone to call in Ken's shares. But, I might be wrong (I often am).

[Worthy4England]

Dramatis Personae

Howard Roark - fictional character from Fountainhead. MIA. Taken Bharaini's and Seattle Sounders with him. Overdue
Laurence Bassini - all too non-fictional character. Last seen kicking tyres on a Rolls Royce outside Winders Court. Died in Watford. Overdue
Kenneth Anderson - pantomime villain - Holed up in Tax haven. Would be writing Ken's Kolumn if only any of the IT worked. Overdue.
Lee Anderson - hot shot - trying to get arrested for calling people horse-face in Dubai. MIA. Hoping for one last payday for signing Zach Clough on a free.
HMRC - Shadowy organisation working against the greater good of mankind. All too real. Overdue
Mystery buyer - doesn't exist - figment of the collective imaginations of tyre kickers around the world - long overdue
EFL - Circus performers - Still throwing confetti from a bucket at the thought the Championship may finish the season with as many teams as it started. Trying to convince itself Laurence Bassini is a fit and proper person, on the grounds he's too thick to be measured against the pantomime villain Kenneth Anderson.
Anderson's Shares (stage prop) - should now be back with Moonshift alongside a large trumpeting fanfare that the pantomime villain is finally done for. MIA - Overdue.
Players Wages (stage prop) - MIA - allegedly exist unless you're the player's banker, in which case they're just an IOU - MIA. Overdue
Pensions (stage prop) - MIA - worry about them in 30 years time - MMIA - Maybe overdue
Pies (stage prop) - cold.
Defence - MIA
Midfield - MIA
Strikers - fictional concept taken from other teams - overdue
Supporters - non-fictional, uncredited actors - fcuked.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Anyone got a scooby as to what's happening? I think today is the day that it's possible for someone to call in Ken's shares. But, I might be wrong (I often am).

In short, no. Alan Nixon appears to have given up saying anything. Marc Iles seems thoroughly despondent.

* Yesterday was, per Iles, the day we became undoubtedly at risk of a double embargo under the EFL's "football creditor" rules. Whether that happens or not is entirely down to the caprice of the EFL - which will worry some of our fans, but they've been lenient with us before, and we'll see: these are curious times.

* The EFL may be nudged into punitive action by the PFA, who want to know why their union members haven't been paid. If they reach Friday without payment, that's 14 days and they can officially serve notice to leave the club - BUT only in another 14 days' time and only if the club don't pay up in the meantime. That kicks the can to April 26, after which we only have two games left (Brentford home, Forest away). By that point, it's hardly worth leaving as they now couldn't play for another club anyway, under EFL Rule 43.3: "Where any new registration or transfer of a Player is received by The League after 5pm on the fourth Thursday in March in each Season, that Player will not be eligible to play in any match organised by The League in that Season, except as permitted in Regulation 57." (Reg.57 is Emergency Goalkeeper Loan.)

* Not sure about today being The Day Eddie's Shares Can Be Recalled From Bad Ken - we've heard that one before. It might be true, but even if so, do the Davieses really want to get involved in this clusterf**k? (There's a whole world of difference between respecting a relative's wishes and throwing good money after bad.)

* Bassini has gone very quiet. Either he's the potless lunatic that so many claimed him to be, or he's done the same as the Basran group, namely:

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* Speaking of Basran, both local journos say he's still in the background but presumably he (or rather Football Ventures) would need a significant drop in asking price to bother dealing with Ken again. Having stalled with Basran and Bassini, maybe Ken's working his way through his Rolodex: "Meet your new owner, Dave Bastard."

[Worthy4England]

^^ The cunning sub-plot to "share recall" was that the mystery Bharaini's/Muricans would buy the debt from Moonshift (at the same time as the "recall" became effective) so effectively they'd pay Moonshift and in return would own the recalled shares and therefore the Club...I suspect had Moonshift wanted to move on the share ownership, they'd have had long enough to so do, at this point...

[TonyDomingos]

Thanks, both. In short, we are up sh!t creek.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Thanks, both. In short, we are up sh!t creek.

Oh, we've been swirling round there for a while, devoid of paddle or plan. But now there's a widening crack in the canoe.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

[Lost Leopard Spot]

...month's yet. Many months.

[TANGODANCER]

Null and void, yer honour. Bolton Whites hotel no longer lives at the Macron Stadium, but at the University of Bolton Stadium (I think?). Move for dismissal yer honour?

[TonyDomingos]

...month's yet. Many months.

I am intrigued by the use of the possessive apostrophe in the first sentence. Even more so because it is absent in the second sentence, which, on the face of it, is a clarification of the first.

[Worthy4England]

Howard has returned! Not with a fanfare, but a tale of woe!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Howard has returned! Not with a fanfare, but a tale of woe!

Is that this then?