A View from Afar wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 6:51 pm
If the club goes under ensure the trust has plans in place for a Phoenix
This is 100% the most important thing now. We're pretty well screwed, so get on with planning for the future.
I kept banging on about it all bloody summer, at the risk of being a broken record, the Shrimps Trust MUST understand the legal workings of the Christie Trust. What will happen when we go under? Will we have access to the ground? The main stand? Floodlights? Changing rooms? We've got a few months to get ahead of this, if we start now (or had started last August)
The buildings have outstanding loans against them, so what happens then?
If the Trust need some idea of how to get the ball rolling reach out to other phoenix clubs and I am sure they will help.
Jim Green is a good point of contact and was part of the original board at City Fans United at Chester. Also knows a lot of the original members who got them going.
You've got Exeter City, AFC Wimbledon, and FC United as well. Pretty sure they'd all support if the plan is to go down the phoenix route
A View from Afar wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2025 9:47 pm
If the Trust need some idea of how to get the ball rolling reach out to other phoenix clubs and I am sure they will help.
Jim Green is a good point of contact and was part of the original board at City Fans United at Chester. Also knows a lot of the original members who got them going.
You've got Exeter City, AFC Wimbledon, and FC United as well. Pretty sure they'd all support if the plan is to go down the phoenix route
The Shrimps Trust said at the weekend, "we're not in an existential crisis". In their statement, they followed the club's lead of downplaying the seriousness of the situation, and even avoided naming Rehal, despite his name being splashed across the media in India, and appearing in anti-money laundering notices across Europe (and wider?).
Hopefully, with Rod & Graham resigning from the board, the Shrimps Trust will wake up, and stop pussy-footing around. At the moment, they appear to be prepared to accept Gurpreet Singh Rehal's request to "trust us". Does anyone else "trust" the owners?
“Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: ".
David Cameron. May 4th 2015. So how did that work out then?
I don't believe that we'll need to form an AFC (or 'do a Bury') but the pressure will be on PW to sell, now that the club is seen as tainted.
They may not have a choice either - if they go to Court to fight any decision by the FA or other arbiter, then unless they can prove the funds were legitimate and not the proceeds of crime, they will lose and may even have to spend time behind bars depending upon how serious their roles in the Khalistan terrorism were/are.
Cardiff City, for example with the Sala case, might win their CAS case against Nantes, but the FA could still impose a fine or points deduction on them simply for bringing the game into disrepute and embarrassing the organisation.
I've just read the comments on this Daily Telegraph story. Plenty of very thinly veiled, and some not even slightly hidden, racism, as well as an obligatory "vote Reform" comment. But one particular comment jumped out...
"What's a Sikh doing with a football club? Is he washing money?"
Interesting that the comment was posted on the Daily Telegraph on 9th December but wasn't removed...
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“Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: ".
David Cameron. May 4th 2015. So how did that work out then?
