Croydon athletic

[Eastside Urchin]

I hear that their next two games have been postponed while the League look into their situation

I also hear they played an inelegible player in Charlie Taylor against Folkestone which they won,not looking good for them now

[cup of tea]

Surely everyone knows in advance what the results of their next two games are anyway!!!!

Edited September 5, 2010 by cup of tea

[urchinman1961]

seems like croydons season could be over b4 it's even started,not the players or fans fault just other idiots tryin to make a quick buck

[cup of tea]

seems like croydons season could be over b4 it's even started,not the players or fans fault just other idiots tryin to make a quick buck

 

Totally agree - people like that don't care about the mess they leave behind or the people they hurt as long as they're up on the deal

[Eastside Urchin]

I blame the authorities,after so many clubs going to the wall owing people thousands,ourselves included,the footballing authorities have failed to regulate these people

[Kel]

Press Release issued by the League yesterday:

 

CROYDON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB

The Ryman League has been contacted by Croydon Athletic FC as a result of internal problems following allegations made in a national newspaper regarding the person widely regarded as the owner of the Club.

 

 

The Club has been unable to pay the August wages for the players and are faced with a number of other financial claims. At the end of the Club’s home match with Concord Rangers yesterday the management team indicated that the side would be unlikely to play together again.

 

 

The League has been working closely with the Club during the past week and attended a meeting at the Club last Wednesday with the Chairman and 3 other senior members of the Club.

 

 

Croydon Athletic FC is doing all it can to stay in business and are hoping that by publicising their plight they may find someone willing to take over the Club. The League has agreed to a request from the Club to postpone its next 2 League fixtures – away to Tooting & Mitcham United on Tuesday, 7^th September and home to Sutton United on 18^th September – in order to give the Club time to see if it can survive the difficult position in which it finds itself.

 

 

The League and the Club will then reconsider the position to ascertain whether or not the Club can meet its commitments to the League for the remainder of the season.

 

 

League Chairman Alan Turvey commented “The League is very sorry that the Club has suffered such a blow. We are concerned to act in the best interests of all parties in this matter and to make sure that every avenue is explored to see if the Club can continue. We do not want players to play in matches which may not count nor do we want spectators to pay to see matches whose results are then erased from the records.”

 

 

 

 

5^th September 2010

 

 

[Digger The Cat]

from non league daily yesterday

 

Crisis Ryman League Premier Division club Croydon Athletic, whose owner Mazhar Majeed is being investigated after accusations of cricket match-fixing, suffered another blow on Saturday when manager Tim O'Shea and his assistant Neil Smith resigned.

 

The pair quit after the 3-1 home defeat by Concord Rangers and it is thought that most of the players will follow them out of the exit door.

 

Former boss Ken Fisher has been appointed caretaker-manager.

 

A statement from the club read: "Officials of the Football Club are working hard to regularise the situation and we will continue to fulfil fixtures and endeavour to ensure the survival of Croydon Athletic Football Club. The match against Tooting & Mitcham United on Tuesday will go ahead together with the FA Cup match next Sunday.

 

"As everyone can imagine these are extremely difficult times in exceptional circumstances but this football club can trace its proud history back over more than fifty years and all is being done to ensure that we have similarly proud history ahead."

[Kel]

Their FA Cup tie v Kingstonian on Sunday has been cancelled and Ks granted a bye into the next round.

[Eastside Urchin]

Surely this would indicate that the club will probably fold,no????

[Kel]

And Ks still pick up the 3 grand prize money!

[Eastside Urchin]

Wrong

[aka PeteBeatz]

I wish the genuine people of Croydon Athletic all ther best. We know only to well that feeling in the gut when your taken to the cleaners. In our case a window cleaner.