As a life-long City supporter, now exiled in Manchester, I was shell-shocked
and angry at hearing last week's news. I would like to raise the following
points.
Firstly, how could the board have been so naive in 1999 as to, effectively,
sell City's ground to Douglas Craig and his cronies for £200,000, knowing
that these people could then sell it on to a property developer at any time
at a vast profit (two thousand per cent, as it turns out)? Why were no legal
safeguards built into the agreement? Or did they, in effect, sell it to
themselves? If so, how can it be legal?
Secondly, it seems that Mr. Craig and his fellow majority shareholders have
finally made clear what their true priorities have always been, i.e.
obscene profit first, club second (a long way behind) and sense of community
third (even further behind).
I can't imagine York without York City FC and I can't imagine York City FC
without Bootham Crescent. I travelled across for the Torquay game and it was
obvious that a few thousand other fans feel the same way, so let's give the
Supporters' Trust the help they need to lead City into a successful and
Craig-less new era.
Alan Hudson,
High Barn Road
Middleton
Updated: 12:58 Monday, January 14, 2002
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