Clubs In Crisis

Twenty five years ago, football supporters sat around Rogan Taylor's kitchen table in Liverpool talking about clubs in crisis and today those discussions which led to the founding of the Football Supporters Association, proved they are as still relevant today as a number of clubs hit the headlines with their financial problems.

Portsmouth, who have been in administration for ten days, have announced 85 redundancies. All will be club staff with the administrator keen to stress that the players wages were protected by the PFA. He added that two players had offered to take a pay cut and that Peter Storrie was taking a 40% pay cut.

Cardiff City, who face Coventry City on March 16th, were in the High Court over their third winding up order. Cardiff were given 56 days to pay a £1.9m debt to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Southend United were given 35 days to pay their debts by the High Court. The League One club are believed to owe Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs £183,000.

Chester City, who were voted out of the Football Conference, were also in the High Court and it took just thirty seconds to wind them up over unpaid debts of £26,000.

Conference North side Farsley Celtic were disbanded. The Yorkshire side had gone into administration with debts of £750,000 at the start of the season.