I did wonder if it had been made up, but it is there on Companies house in black and white.

That's right and in the meantime, if the current owners are like the last one, they and their families will have a nice living out of it, make 4% on the funds the have lent to the club and then sell it on or put it into admin again, knowing their loans are secured and they are therefore preferred creditors. Rinse and repeat.

The big question is, how did they end up with owners like this in the first place? If there is a fraud investigation underway, then you have to wonder. There were some very strange rumblings about Rovers initial takeover, for anyone who remembers and a Western Union Transfer was cited, as shall we say, questionable.

Its got to have been secured against the stadium and the hotel. They won't have a cat in hells chance of repaying the £40m in 4 years. Someone called Nick Luckcock is involved and it may be £20m lent by him and £20m lent by Sharon Brittan. There is a third charge, but that might be the hotel looking at it.

Here is a link. https://companycheck.co.uk/director/911487120/MRS-SHARON-BRITTAN/summary

Looks like they could be back in the same boat in 2022. Sharon Brittan has lent 2 lots of £20m to the club. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11761052

It seems that GMP have now launched a fraud investigation at Bury FC.

Its an interesting letter from Dale, but of course he has failed to address certain things. the most damning was the sale of the clubs debts to his daughters partner, so you have to wonder if the league are totally to blame, or if it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. I don't trust the league one little bit and as can be seen from many a shady owner, getting their hands on clubs, the system needs a total overhaul.

I did hear that the accountants were brought in, as there appeared to be funds disappearing, with no trace of where these were going. As already mentioned, accountants advising on a traditional business is one thing, but a football club, is a totally different animal. Here we are all speculating again though, instead of the owners coming out and stating, what has happened in the past, where we are now and where they want us to be in the future. Perhaps once they do, a bit more income could come in, as a few more fans may start to believe in them and trust them.

Its an utter disgrace that this has happened to Bury. From the purchase of the club for £1 and the league admitting the didn't carry out a fit and proper test, through to the mortgage with an annual interest rate of 138%. How can a greedy individual like this, get away with killing a club like this? Football is becoming a bigger let down to the average fan, with each passing day.

It appears that Anderson and Shaun Harvey are good mates allegedly. When you are good mates with someone that senior at the EFL who happens to know, he will be gone before too long, perhaps the good of the club was the furthest thing from his thoughts?

Very poor that from both teams. Predicted 0-0 at half time and nothing happened in the second half the resembled a goal coming

0-0 written all over it at the min. Not enough quality from either side

Nothing dodgy as in brown envelopes sweeteners and little tickles here and there for services rendered. It's not too long ago that the England Manager had to resign and was possibly a little lucky that his misdemeanours, only cost him is job, allegedly.

And this guy was deemed to be fit and proper?. no wonder the game is in a mess. It seems to be full of more crooks and vagabonds, than your average prison.

I think it was his daughters boyfriend from what I heard and he denied any connection allegedly.

You can find that and wonder if he is fit and proper, but the football authorities couldn't. As we have seen with other dangerous people owning football clubs, if you know the right people it doesn't really matter. I assume it was Dale, who was so fit and proper he signed a Mortgage agreement that had an interest rate of 128%. Its as though he was setting this up to fail, so that his £1 turned into millions, almost over night. Someone will love Bury enough to rescue them at the death. The sad thing is, if he goes away for a couple of years and keeps his head down, they will let him repeat his trick again, with another unfortunate club.

I don't wish bad things on many people, but I have to make the odd exception and here is one.

Its quite remarkable really that the individual who was most responsible for this, got away with what he did. when you look at the way, he manipulated the change of management, brought about signings that had third party ownership written all over them and somehow got his son a premier league players contract, is beyond belief. I shudder to think how much he must have made out of it and like you say, it's not surprising that at least 3 of the companies, involved in the acquisition have been wound up. There are still people at work, trying to rid Rovers of Venky's as it still feels dirty that they are still involved.

Plenty of fans have decided to bury their heads in the sand and just suppport the team. As mentioned on this thread, lots of this will be hidden forever, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. I will never accept as some people do, that we would have eventually been relegated anyway, so it doesn’t matter. The owners and the other people involved, cost the club our premier league place. Had we remained there for another couple of seasons, we would now be enjoying the even greater riches now on offer, instead of surviving and striving to get back. Venkys ruined our club, so let’s not forget

I’ve said it until I am blue in the face. Do not trust Venkys. Have they ever explained what was going on in the early days and why for example, Coyle was from the same stable? People say they were badly advised, but too many things point to them being complicit. until the come out and explain, what was and probably still is going on, I will remain fearful of the clubs future.

We had a couple of decent chances. Buckley could have made a name for himself, but blazed over, from a good ball in from Gallagher

Them were the days. I had a few games in the same side as Mark too. He was at Darwen Vale, so played against him for our school team every year as well. Good days those were.

Last time the Clarets tried that one, it was a warm up for the Orient game in 1987. The cones won 1-0.

I think Saturday is huge now and expect the crowd to turn on him if we lose and the recent traits continue.