For dere som trenger en liten påminner om hvor vi stod pr januar 2005.
"As December opened, there came another crisis as the club announced a payment of £1.2m to the Inland Revenue was due on the 15th of the month with an £800,000 VAT bill to be settled shortly afterwards. The club defaulted on the payments and staggered on uncertainly until 17 January when they announced that they had only 10 days left to avoid administration.
Kevin Blackwell: "One Friday in January, out of the blue the stock exchange pulled the plug. It was a terrible day, with staff crying all around me. We weren't going into administration - that had already been done and all the assets had been sold - it was straight to liquidation.
The doors were going to be closed on the Monday. We'd all had e-mails, saying we wouldn't be paid. The wages had only been paid in December because I sold Scott Carson to Liverpool." [B)]
Then in the nick of time there was some astonishing news, as former Chelsea owner Ken Bates came into the equation. " [:0]
Vi var timer fra å stenge hele butikken. Verden har tross alt gått
litt fremover siden den gang, har den ikke? [
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Sportslig sett var også januar 2005 svak. Vi startet det nye året med å tape 0-2 hjemme for Crewe med dette laget: Sullivan- Kelly, Butler, Kilgallon, Richardson - Wright, Gregan, Pugh - Lennon, Nathan Blake, Healy [xx(]
Jon R.
