It's been a month since the first blog on here, and a lot has happened in between times, as Chester FC now becomes one step closer.
Today, the final meeting with the Council takes place, and at some point following the meeting the council will decide on whether to assign the lease to City Fans United and their plans for Chester FC, or whether to hand it over to a non local, in fact overseas Danish consortium, who have refused to back down despite originally advising that they would not throw a rival bid in if the fans did not back it.
So, it's time for the Council to make the right decision for the whole of Chester. To have an overseas group controlling the club ahead of local people would just be a disgrace - it's as simple as that.
City Fans United are within small steps of bringing Chester FC back to the Community, whereas the Danes will take things the other way, and have even said they'll be taking people over to Denmark, as well as the kids, well the Junior Blues has already built itself up to be a great membership, and proving that last week with the trip to FC United of Manchester at Gigg Lane, which saw them take part in the United Youth Day, and parade around the pitch getting a great reception from the home fans.
The future is set to be bright at Chester FC with the backing the club is receiving even before it officially gets the green light - businesses are throwing their weight behind Chester FC as they bid to rebuild the bridges burned by previous owners.
The time for common sense has arrived, and a vote for the Danes would certainly be viewed as political suicide by the Conservative-led local government, and David Cameron should be taking note as any slip up here could lead to a loss of seat in the Chester region.
City Fans United are of course made up of Chester fans, and they know the bid from the CFU is the one that should be chosen if the club is to move forward.
Let's hope the Council agree.
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Friday, 26 March 2010
Fans cast their vote for new club
Well here we go, a brand new blog, and one in which I hope keeps everyone up to date with what's going on at what will be - thanks to the fans - Chester Football Club.
I don't know what it is, but it certainly has a romantic sound to it saying Chester Football Club, and I'm sure the same goes for many fans who grew up supporting Chester, rather than Chester City FC.
I used to have a scarf which simply had "Chester" on it, and that was one of my prized possessions, sadly I gave it - along with many other Chester goodies - to a pub in Chester a few years back, as it was run by fans, but sadly they moved on and all my stuff was gone forever, but you have to move on and not look back moping around.
The same can be said for our situation, as when Chester City FC went under, the fans group City Fans United were accused of being "ellbent on destroying the club" when the reality is the club had already been destroyed thanks to the actions of one family, and all we wanted was to remove that side of it, but sadly it seems we couldn't have one without the other.
The family have always had the chance to hand the club over to the supporters for a realistic amount, but this was never offered by the regime, aside from the chance to buy it for a pound, but with £750,000 to clear in debt, so that was never going to happen.
The best thing was that City Fans United had prepared for the day when the club would be liquidated, we all knew it was going to happen, it was just a case of when and not if.
So, on March 10th, the club was officially liquidated with no defence being made by the Vaughan family at the High Court, which mirrored the lack of defence at the Conference hearing where the club were kicked out by their fellow members.
Here we are then, as CFU continue to make strides towards achieving their aim of ensuring football in Chester continues, the fans have recently had the chance to name the club, and Chester Football Club turned out to be the winning name, with 70% of the vote, which attracted over 1250 supporters.
The next step is to hopefully receive the lease to the Deva Stadium from the Council, and then the job of bringing the football club back to life officially begins, but for now, it's a bit of a witing game, although the CFU are firming up their business plan which will hopefully prove to be key to winning the right to the lease.
April 19th is the deadline for all lease applications to be received by the Council, but the fact that only one Reformation application will be dealt with by the FA - and that was made by CFU - means that the strongest bid appears to be with City Fans United at this point.
Keep tuning into this blog as time goes along, as it will be updated constantly, with latest news from the Deva.
I don't know what it is, but it certainly has a romantic sound to it saying Chester Football Club, and I'm sure the same goes for many fans who grew up supporting Chester, rather than Chester City FC.
I used to have a scarf which simply had "Chester" on it, and that was one of my prized possessions, sadly I gave it - along with many other Chester goodies - to a pub in Chester a few years back, as it was run by fans, but sadly they moved on and all my stuff was gone forever, but you have to move on and not look back moping around.
The same can be said for our situation, as when Chester City FC went under, the fans group City Fans United were accused of being "ellbent on destroying the club" when the reality is the club had already been destroyed thanks to the actions of one family, and all we wanted was to remove that side of it, but sadly it seems we couldn't have one without the other.
The family have always had the chance to hand the club over to the supporters for a realistic amount, but this was never offered by the regime, aside from the chance to buy it for a pound, but with £750,000 to clear in debt, so that was never going to happen.
The best thing was that City Fans United had prepared for the day when the club would be liquidated, we all knew it was going to happen, it was just a case of when and not if.
So, on March 10th, the club was officially liquidated with no defence being made by the Vaughan family at the High Court, which mirrored the lack of defence at the Conference hearing where the club were kicked out by their fellow members.
Here we are then, as CFU continue to make strides towards achieving their aim of ensuring football in Chester continues, the fans have recently had the chance to name the club, and Chester Football Club turned out to be the winning name, with 70% of the vote, which attracted over 1250 supporters.
The next step is to hopefully receive the lease to the Deva Stadium from the Council, and then the job of bringing the football club back to life officially begins, but for now, it's a bit of a witing game, although the CFU are firming up their business plan which will hopefully prove to be key to winning the right to the lease.
April 19th is the deadline for all lease applications to be received by the Council, but the fact that only one Reformation application will be dealt with by the FA - and that was made by CFU - means that the strongest bid appears to be with City Fans United at this point.
Keep tuning into this blog as time goes along, as it will be updated constantly, with latest news from the Deva.
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