Chester City

[Abbo]

Have had there home game against Gateshead called off

[heysham_mfc]

its not looking good for them now

[P/T Indie]

Deva chat as ever makes great reading they can't even agree between themselves if or where to have a protest and how to protest, talk about not been able to organise a drinking session in a brewery.

I would hope if god forbid we ever found ourselves in such a position we would have some common sense to have a meeting and put together a plan of action.

They are welsh I suppose so it explains a lot

[Gnasher]

Chester are doomed, It's becoming more & more obvious that there are members of the FA that simply don't want Vaughan in charge of a football club. Because of the dodgy loans to CCFC, to get rid of Vaughan and keep the club alive means someone has to buy a BSP club with no assets for several million quid.

[marky No.1]

Deva chat as ever makes great reading

Liked this bit

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[P/T Indie]

Chester are doomed, It's becoming more & more obvious that there are members of the FA that simply don't want Vaughan in charge of a football club. Because of the dodgy loans to CCFC, to get rid of Vaughan and keep the club alive means someone has to buy a BSP club with no assets for several million quid.

Yes and I amazed that the conference were happy to accept them. the conference always seem to keen to relegate teams for off field problems and they never accepted Boston.

[Posh]

The image Marky No.1 puts up just shows how idiotic and blinkered the debate is now on Devachat. They think the FA is trying to kill little 'ol Chester City when in reality they are merely trying to deal with Stephen Vaughan who is acting in contravention of every FA rule to keep hold of Chester City.

The FA, Revenue and Customs, the Police and almost everyone imaginable knows that Stephen Vaughan's company Vaughan Trading generated millions of pounds from VAT carousel fraud. Basically the theft of millions of pounds of taxpayers money.

They also know he has direct connections to Europe's biggest ever cocaine dealer. And that one of Chester City's major benefactors was Colin Smith, Liverpool's biggest drug lord who's exection was commemorated with a minute's silence at The Deva.

Yet none of this has been turned into a criminal conviction despite anyone in authority being unable to draw any other conclusion (I'm happy to write this because I don't think he can prove otherwise).

However when Chester City went into administration it was taken over from the receivers by Chester City (2004) Ltd, another Vaughan company, who were apparently owed £2 million. Yet Vaughan, by all accounts, can show absolutely no evidence of this money in the accounts of the new company, how it exists or how it came to be loaned. That's what the FA have got him and I'm not sure they're prepared to let go of the matter. Sadly neither is Vaughan willing to let go of this or Chester City, and it's killing the club as Vaughan has slowly been doing over the last few years.

[Gnasher]

One of devachat's members organised a meeting tonight. The Club got in touch with him and managed to re-arrange it for tomorrow night with Sky Sports in attendance, Vaughan will also be there. That's dividing them yet again because, with the exception of a few, it is seen as Vaughan using the fans to protest against the FA. A lot of fans do realise the root cause of the problem, Vaughan, but Vaughan is manipulating them so the only ones who aren't arguing among themslves are the pro-Vaughan minority.

[P/T Indie]

Remember to watch Sky sports news tonight for some pure TV gold.

They are at the Chester City protest night which vaughan has now turned round to make it a publicity stunt for people to feel sorry for him.

Deva Chat is pure class today threats of violence between supporters and people still can't agree about tonights protest/SV love in.

[P/T Indie]

One of them has now started this off which is probably just been signed by loads of Wrexham fans

http://www.petitiononline.com/CCFC09/petition.html

Don't think Sky have shown the meeting tonight which just turned into 100 chester fans signing "Chester Till I Die" and vaughan having a moan. There were no protests against SV now there is a suprise.

[scar]

Just flashed up on SkySports News bottom bar that Chester have been refused affiliation to the FA today!

No doubt it won't be the end of the story but at the minute the Deva is going to be a very quiet patch of land this year!

[P/T Indie]

on Deva Chat they seem to think they have been given permission to play and are all rather excited.

[scar]

Wouldn't be the first time Sky got it wrong.... or Deva Chat! No official announcement anywhere yet that I can find!

They just need to get rid of Vaughan one way or the other!

[marky No.1]

Turns out Chester are IN and the Conference has been fined £5000

http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chest ... -24436894/

[Bare Ben]

That article states Chester are to be deducted a further 15 points. That would leave them on -40 and remove any chance that they may have had of overturning -25. Can anyone clarify?

[heysham_mfc]

That article states Chester are to be deducted a further 15 points. That would leave them on -40 and remove any chance that they may have had of overturning -25. Can anyone clarify?

no it think they are saying the fine is for accepting the -15 points as it is in breach of conference rules

[P/T Indie]

The FA don't think the conference should have accepted Chester into the league as they have broke their own rules by doing so. The thing is now the season has started it would cause a lot more problems if they didn't let them in so the FA have said they can play but have given the conference a telling off.

[Gnasher]

So all the time devachat was slagging off the FA, it's the FA that has forced the conference to allow them into the league because the conference's own rules don't allow for exceptional circumstances (which the league does). And Vaughan is still there

[Christies Child]

So all the time devachat was slagging off the FA, it's the FA that has forced the conference to allow them into the league because the conference's own rules don't allow for exceptional circumstances (which the league does). And Vaughan is still there :cry:

.....and that for me is the sad part of this entire saga.

He's once again got away with it. I just hope that sooner or later he gets what he deserves. Unfortunatley it appears that 'bully boys' of his ilk always get away with it.

[marky No.1]

That article states Chester are to be deducted a further 15 points. That would leave them on -40 and remove any chance that they may have had of overturning -25. Can anyone clarify?

http://www.bluesqfootball.com/story/0,2 ... 34,00.html

[scar]

The last of this I feel we have not heard yet!

From the Conference site (linky in above post;)

Chester City FC will, though, commence the season on minus 25 points, i.e. 10 points for entering Administration and a further 15 points for not meeting the competition's insolvency policy, to which the Club has agreed and accepted.

From BBC's Chester page

City will kick off against Cambridge still with that 25-point handicap - effectively making them 26 points adrift of safety before they start - they are expected to immediately launch an appeal.

Makes you glad of the Board of Directors we have.

[Gnasher]

Their official web site is down. So easy to check and so easy to fix, if you've got £25 for a .net renewal

They have forgotten to renew the domain name

[Keith]

have you bought it yet? You could have it redirect to Shrimpsvoices!