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« on: August 28, 2019, 11:44:18 PM »
Reading in the Guardian this morning a list of those former league clubs that have disappeared over recent years brought home the fact that, but for the grace of the Chestnuts, we could well have been included in that list. I hope all BUFC supporters realise how fortunate we have been with our owners, and how grateful we should be to them. Pete B is quite right to refer to the struggles we had trying to get a viable trust into existence in the dark days. My experience then was that too many supporters did not want to know of (or acknowledge) the problems. I hope we are never in Bury's position.
PS On a slightly lighter note, I should add that the only time I ever asked to be absent from a parents' evening in my 32 years of teaching at a school in Leicester was the night of the trust launch in the Assembly Rooms - and the sympathetic Head (a Bristol City supporter) allowed me to go! I paid for it by having to make quite a few phone calls to parents over the next few days.