KenH wrote:Unlikely as "normal" invoices like that wouldn't usually cause any problems - it's pretty straightforward and very little scope for the supplier getting the invoicing of VAT wrong...
...Far more likely to be something strange/unusual that the club didn't spot.
Could it (and this is entirely guessing) be that Whittingham has other companies involved in this, and it was an inter-company payment of some sort? I know he had multiple companies involved in Worcester Warriors. In which case, if we've paid too much, and he's skint, we ain't getting it back in a hurry.
KenH wrote:Shame the BOD gave such a garbled "explanation" that caused more doubt rather than clearing it up.
Absolutely. The mess we're in, why not come clean, and bring what's going on out into the open? It can't cause any additional damage.
If I was a person wealthy enough to consider buying Morecambe FC, right now, I'd be watching and waiting. Why give £2.5 million (for example) to Whittingham when an Administrator will accept £800,000 (or whatever) in a month's time? If Whittingham was serious about selling, he'd have been gone a long time ago. Why he didn't sell, who knows? But now, his asset, and our football club is going down the pan.