What’s happening to Morecambe is a disgrace. Terrible owner, unpaid wages, only 10 senior players, pre-season games cancelled, first three NL games postponed, expulsion a possibility, club’s 105-year existence in grave doubt. Huge credit to their fans like Shrimps Trust and players like Tom White who’ve fought on in such challenging circumstances. Morecambe’s owner, Jason Whittingham, is primarily culpable for this mess/impasse. He needs to sell but hasn’t.
Authorities have let this situation drift despite constant alarms raised by fans. Echoes of what befell Bury. Morecambe’s plight is also echoed elsewhere with unfit owners damaging certain clubs and the national game. If we tolerate this, another club could be next.
Is Whittingham a fit and proper owner? Clearly not. Would others like him get through even a tightened Owners’ and Directors’ Test? Possibly. Even if they pass are the checks on their financial viability frequent enough? At least with the Independent Football Regulator coming in there will be more robust and regular checks. And much needed.
But will the IFR, the fans’ friend, this new body to protect clubs from unfit owners, be too late for Morecambe? Fans meeting @shrimpstrust agm Thursday. Good luck to them. Like Tom White, they’re fighting hard to keep Morecambe alive. Football needs more people like them - and less like Whittingham. #Shrimps 🦐
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Gary Neville’s Anfield Great Escape 😂🔴
Gary explains why he had to leave before full-time as Liverpool lifted the title at Anfield.
📺 Watch the latest episode of It’s Called Soccer now to hear Gary and Rebecca react to Liverpool’s 20th league title and more.
Spare a thought for Dan Burn’s Dad. He wrote this open letter to him before the League Cup Final Newcastle lost back in 2023.
Today, he’s seen his son score the opener to help Newcastle win their first trophy since the Fairs Cup in 1969.
We were filming the announcement video for the official album chart account and caught the moment I got to tell my old man Be Lucky had made it into the top 10….🥲
What a mental fucking week we’ve had. I still don’t think it’s hit me. Feel like I’m flying