Source: Hampshire Football LINK
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| Two proud flags flying together - August 2011. |
Eastleigh have tonight announced they will handover the
gate-receipts from their home fixture against cash-strapped Truro City in a
weeks time, hoping it will help save the Cornwall club from league
expulsion.
The Tigers are facing possible extinction following failure
to the secure a bond with the Football Conference, which required them to find
£50,000 by 5pm yesterday. City were lucky that a 10k settlement was enough to
buy more time, after Cornwall Council agreed to stump up a fifth of the amount
in a controversial deal, which has angered many in the South-West.
Andrew Wallis councillor for Porthleven and Helston South
is one of them:
“Tax payers money should not be used, I am sorry Truro, but
the money is needed elsewhere,” he complained on his website
Eastleigh however have once again shown what a great club
they are, in a timely reminder that the Corinthian spirit is still alive in the
lower leagues, on this Non-League weekend, the Southampton club announcing
“We have
offered Truro the gate receipts for next Saturdays home game,” in a brief
statement released on their forum earlier today.
Clubs up
and down the country have been issuing their full support and backing towards
the Treyew Road outfit, who were given another week to raise the further
forty-thousand need.
Despite
this Dover Athletic Chairman Jim Parmenter was not happy when he spoke yesterday
evening. In an attack on The Tinmen that has sparked outrage on social media
sites like twitter, Parmenter coldheartedly declared:
“It’s a
mystery how it’s allowed to happen, it’s sad for clubs like us, who are sound and do
things right, we are the ones that suffer”
Jim Parmenter owner
of Gomez International walked out of Margate FC in 2004 to takeover Dover, which
led to The Gate eventually entering administration, and nearly going bankrupt
themselves.
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