'Who's snuffed it now?'

[TheSwindonianManSTFC]

Absolutely awful about Morecambe, sends chills through you just thinking about it. The loss of livelihoods, the loss of community. Just like Bury, Aldershot, Rushden and Diamonds, Hereford and many others before. The fate of lower league clubs does hang on a knife-edge. Serves as a stark reminder not just for us but clubs in the lower leagues that the future of our clubs is not so certain. Just wonder how much this new regulator can do to curb this.

[Pericardinho]

Sky Sports news reporting that Isak has attended training and yet Morecambe are as good as dead.

I've just rapidly fell out of love with football at the top levels. It's just crap. So unbelievably out of touch with the local communities and what it means to people.

The BBC Sport front page. Not a single mention of it.

This could so so SO easily be us in the near future. If our club debt continues to rise, and becomes much higher than our club is worth, what is to say Morfuni won't let us go in a similar way.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Excellent late night phone ins!

Often quite deep stuff and he helped many get out of some dark places.

[horlock07]

Sky Sports news reporting that Isak has attended training and yet Morecambe are as good as dead.

I've just rapidly fell out of love with football at the top levels. It's just crap. So unbelievably out of touch with the local communities and what it means to people.

The BBC Sport front page. Not a single mention of it.

This could so so SO easily be us in the near future. If our club debt continues to rise, and becomes much higher than our club is worth, what is to say Morfuni won't let us go in a similar way.

I suspect the BBC had nowt on Morecambe yesterday purely as nothing seemed to change bar some of the more copy and paste football SM outlets suddenly decided it was game over at midnight last night which I don't think actually was the case, FWIW the BBC have it on their front page today (with a story dated yesterday?)

The strange thing at Morecambe is that no one (even the 'football finance experts' seem to have a clue what Whittingham's game is or what the desired outcome is for him, there is some suggestion that he has got so much secured against the club that its essentially either unsellable or will lead to his entire house of cards collapsing if sold or alternatively (and possibly very pertinent to us if rumours are to be believed), and I should probably say in big letters allegedly! that he cannot sell to an unrelated third party because as soon as the books are opened and scrutinised the person doing the scrutiny will be on the blower to Inspector Knacker/HMRC?

But like so much in football ownership there is so much rumour and counter rumour flying about I suspect pretty much no one actually has a clue what's actually going on.

I'll repeat again, in light of what's flown about previously I'm not sure the mooted takeover of them will leave them in any better sort of state than they are now, just kick the can a little down the road.

[Batch]

I'm not even sure what happens what business gets liquidated. Does the liquidator dig into the books - they must do right to see if there is anything to salvage. Surely it all comes out then?

I'm not sure how Whittingham avoids scrutiny, but since its not his first rodeo maybe he knows he will avoid scrutiny/liability after all.

[Terminator]

Yes the liquidator does look into the books. I am no expert but thought that voluntary liquidation you still own the assets, liquidation you don’t anymore. Both options you have to submit accounts to HMRC as the business is being wound down.

[horlock07]

FWIW its now being banded around up here that 20th August is actually D day for Morecambe....

[Boydy]

20th makes a lot more sense as that when NL will make their final decision. The whole Monday thing looks to me like it stemmed from a statement put out by the Trust and Punjab Warriors that the club would cease trading on Monday if Whittingham didn't sell to them by then.

[4D]

Kelley Mack from the Walking Dead, aged 33.

[Moss]

Sky Sports news reporting that Isak has attended training and yet Morecambe are as good as dead.

I've just rapidly fell out of love with football at the top levels. It's just crap. So unbelievably out of touch with the local communities and what it means to people.

The BBC Sport front page. Not a single mention of it.

This could so so SO easily be us in the near future. If our club debt continues to rise, and becomes much higher than our club is worth, what is to say Morfuni won't let us go in a similar way.

It amazes me that a third choice keeper from a modest Premier League Club can be "worth" more than the financial value of a club like ours of our club.
 
The BBC needs to up it's game on a number of things - including lower league football coverage and in particular shady ownership!

[Peter Venkman]

It amazes me that a third choice keeper from a modest Premier League Club can be "worth" more than the financial value of a club like ours of our club.
 
The BBC needs to up it's game on a number of things - including lower league football coverage and in particular shady ownership!

And that a reserve 22 year old defender from Liverpool gets a £15m transfer to Lyon when hes played 2 1st team games at Liverpool.

£15m is probably enough to buy our entire club as well.

[Audrey]

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Astronaut.

[Bedford Red]

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 Astronaut.

RIP Jim. 97 years is a good age.

[fuzzy]

A great loss to all us space nerds.

The fact that he got to make it to 97 (Anne that Fred Haise is still with us and Jack Swigert lived until 1982) is due to one of the greatest examples of teamwork and ingenuity of modern times.

[Nomoreheroes]

Mr Benn!

(Ray Brooks)