Please sign our on-line petition against asset strippers -Save Wrexham FC
Wrexham Fans
Wrexham FC, the oldest team in Wales, is facing a serious crisis after being
taken over by property developers who look set to asset strip the club. They
have plans to redevelop the Racecourse Ground which we have to stop.
Please help by signing our on-line petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html
The full story of what is being done to us is detailed below:
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Please show your support for football and your contempt for the asset
strippers by signing the on-line petition, it only takes 30 seconds - and
also get your friends and family to do the same, in fact tell everyone who
cares remotely about football or the community.
http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html
Please forward this on to anyone you think may sign the petition. We need to
keep this moving. We are currently at 3500 signatures but we need lots more.
The local press are virtually turning a blind eye to what is really
happening, so to be kept informed please sign up for the wrexham fans
newsletter by sending an email to wrexham.fan...@topica.com .
Many thanks.
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Two years ago the then chairman of Wrexham Football Club, Mr Pryce
Griffiths, who was a real Wrexham supporter and had the best interests of
the club at heart, was struggling to cope with the increased stress of
running the club due to ill health and decided to sell his 78% of shares in
the club to a Mr Mark Gutterman, a property developer, believing after
several meetings that he would continue to look after the club and take it
forward.
After Mark Gutterman took over, the club won promotion back to Division Two
and everything seemed fine, but no money was ever provided for transfer fees
by the new chairman/owner and then starting in November last year the
players wages started to be paid late and carried on being paid late until
his sudden resignation last week. On several occasions the phones had been
cut off and also the players had no hot water at the training complex at
Colliers Park.
A Mr John Reames had appeared on the scene over the last couple of months,
claiming he was here as a favour to Mark Gutterman and was not deceiving a
penny for his help, and on Monday night at a board meeting called due to
Mark Guttermans departure he was made Managing Director. He was previously
involved at Lincoln City where he was chairman and their fans cannot believe
he has been allowed to obtain a position of power at another football club.
Amazingly, Mr Reames has admitted that Mark Gutterman was never owner of
Wrexham Football Club and the owner is in fact a Mr Alex Hamilton, another
property developer who is a close friend and business associate of Mark
Gutterman, and Mr Alex Hamilton has admitted himself "that he has no
interest in football". Mr Alex Hamilton also bought the freehold of the
ground from Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries over a year ago for £300,000
and this was never reported in the local press along with several other very
important issues regarding the club. The club had a 125 year lease agreed
for a peppercorn rent, this is now worthless as Mr Hamilton owns both the
club and the freehold and can do what he likes with them.
According to Mr Reames, Mr Hamilton wishes to demolish the Kop and Yale
stands during the season after next and rotate the pitch ninety degrees
during the summer break to "free up" more space for redevelopment, once this
is done Mr Hamilton will walk away from the club with a handsome profit
leaving the club debt free. This will lead to the loss of the club car park
and a reduction in capacity of the ground by 1500.
Obviously this is very worrying for any Wrexham fan as the current ground is
a very good stadium and is better left as it is, and can it really be
believed that all the work can be done while the team still plays at the
stadium? Why do we need to build a smaller stadium on the same site allowing
a property developer to walk off with millions in profit and pay off debts
that have been created while he has been the owner, it just doesn't make any
sense apart from someone asset stripping the land for their own benefit.
The obvious main worry is that once the work begins an excuse will be made
that we will have to groundshare because of the work taking too long etc and
we will never return as the land will be sold once we are off site, and for
anyone who doubts this is a possibility, just ask any Brighton fan who are
now fully supporting our cause as can be seen from the petition, along with
fans of all other football clubs including not surprisingly Lincoln City.
Please help save Wrexham FC
sign the on-line petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html
thank you.
Fatha -Jack
FJ - OFM#20 - BNP!!!!!!!!!!
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