Quote: jools "No sugar daddy for Bradford- they just fleeced the tax payer (that's you and me) and other businesses. '"
I sometimes still think this way, tbh. I'm not alone though, as you clearly demonstrate, but I've got round it in my own mind by considering what goes on, in business, on a daily basis.
Large multi-nationals decide for themselves if they will, or won't pay many £multi millions of tax by using legal tax dodges. They follow the rules, as defined by HMG and they get away with the pretence that they haven't done any business in the UK. I don't agree with that either, btw and I suspect you probably don't either.
The one similarity between those companies and the Bulls is that when things happen and rules have to be followed, then they are followed. The rules about insolvency are laid down and they were followed - so we are where we are. If, as a country, we all feel so strongly that the insolvency rules need changing then let the government change them. Until that time we follow the rules we have. Which is what we did - so I'm not sure what your problem is.
If we'd come back on a so called pre-pack, I might have had more sympathy with your argument [even though that is also a perfectly legal device], but we didn't do that and those who let down the club [and the taxman, me, you and everyone else who pays taxes] have gone and there are new people at the helm now. They don't deserve your ire.