11/05/2008


Former Football League club Halifax Town has gone bust and faces a challenge to re-form at a lower level next season. Halifax collapsed on Friday with debts totalling more than £2m. Administrators offered a settlement of 2.5 p in the £ but creditors refused and the club will now be liquidated just three years short of its 100th anniversary. The final straw came when it was emerged that the taxman was owed more than £800,000 - far more than initial estimates and a sum administrators described as 'insurmountable'. Halifax Town will now cease to exist in their current form and the only option is to start a new club from scratch further down the non-league pyramid. It is not know whether David Bosomworth - the man behind the consortium that was engaged in a protracted bid to buy Halifax - would back a reformed club, but the Supporters Trust have already discussed the idea of setting up a fans club on the lines of AFC Wimbledon. However, it would be very difficult to start such a club in time for next season. One challenge for them, or any re-formed club, would be where they would play.

Stop crying Bob the builder. Your faithful probably did their dough at the RL game on sunday, rent-a-crowd hahahaha

Gregg, I wish you would get your facts right, it's 100 Great Throwups.
Or as Mr T hall would say
Gregg,Iwishyouwouldgetyourfactsrightit's100GreatThrowups.

Sadly lot`s of people were owed money , did they manage to pay the rent?

I would imagine the way the Town fans are going on then the only thing they were paying was their rent. Obviously that was the most important thing to pay wasnt it because heaven forbid they would miss a payment.

I wonder if they have come up with a better way of paying their taxes this time?

I also think because they are doing so well then the right thing to do would be to pay back some of the money they owed when they went belly up. I would imagine they are doing that though because of their high moral standing.

Halifax players threatened strike action over unpaid wages in April 1990. The club sold Neil James for £20,000 to pay wages but were still in financial trouble including an unpaid tax bill of £70,000. Halifax went into the hands of receivers, £760,000 in debt, a take-over bid having failed after the players refused to take a pay cut. The club was re-formed and the assets were purchased by the Marsland/Gartland consortium of local businessmen.

Heres one for the Town fans, why not do another FOI letter and find out how much rent the old club owed when they went belly up. Just think what a stadium we could have now if it turns out they wernt paying the rent.

Why would a a club pay debt that aren't theirs?

FC Halifax Town have about asmuch do do with the old club's finances as HRLFC.

Had the old club not put any money into the ground the Shay would still be how it was in the mid 90's.

Out of courtesy and high moral standing.

Yes but assuming missed rent payments could possibly made up some of their debt, imagine how good it could have been if they had paid that.

I had a HRLFC polo on and got some funny looks and choice remarks. may have bumped into the minority but then seeing how this few months have unfolded have proved to me that I'm better off watching premier league on sky and save my money for fax games. haven't been down since wilder left now.

Blumming heck! Better than paying £17, and less of the "trying" thank you.

I'm sure an FOI Request would find out that information for you then.

Shhhh! I am sure they were fully up to date.