It is everyone’s fault that we got into a mess, we’re a democratic club and the membership took their eye off the ball and just let the people in charge get on with it.
However - FC United issues from the walsh cabal as reported by various enemies
Forked over a couple of hundred grand to the council for a ground in Newton Heath that didn’t happen and the money was gone.
Ostracized dozens of volunteers when they started asking tough questions and replaced them with non united mates in paid positions. Fundraising went from volunteer ran to Andy Walker being paid £30k a year and raised less funds that it was before not even taking into account the wage.
Decided to become a 3rd sector hub without telling anyone and basing the whole financial future of the club on grants from various government groups with no thought of the effect would have on said grants or conditions
Became the poster team for Big Society including inviting a fucking tory minister for a photo op on the pitch.
Didn’t bother managing the playing budget at all.
He was forced out and new people found;
Our club sponsor had signed up for 1 season and had no contract, the club thought it was 2 so put that in forecasts and when the new board asked for payment the sponsor said they didn’t sponsor us.
The agreements made with the council are an absolute joke making fundraising nearly impossible.
No contracts for any of the pitchside advertising or records of who had and hadn’t paid
Loan stock sold to people without it being properly handled and us not being able to cover the debt.
We very nearly went bust. Half the crowd hate walsh and half hate JP. We’ve been infiltrated by right wing locals that no one can be bothered dealing with. Our playing budget is tiny and we have a completely unproven manager who has got the job because “he gets it”.
We will go down this season.
Andy Walsh personally accused 2 of my mates that raised the most money for the club of stealing money. He then took over what they were doing and put his mates in charge of it while completely muddying their name while at the same time was taking all the matchday takings home with him and keeping it under his bed until the bank opened on a monday (Gate takings/bar takings etc for crowds of £3k+)
People that bought community shares may not get their money back
@bugduv @anon76851889 this book is biased as anything but a decent explanation of things https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Rebels-Glazers-FC-Revolution/dp/1787290093
