Luton drop out of Football League

[MasterBlaster76]

But it's old news now. What I want to know is how can all the big sides, including Utd, stand by and watch while these smaller teams are going to the wall? Luton only went down because of a thirty point penalty, which they only got because they went into administration. Surely they could easily help them out, without making so much as a microbe sized dent in their considerable piles of money? I just don't like to see a football club go out of business, all those years, all that history.

Come on, big clubs! Help the little man!

 

[PhilD123]

Always the fans that pay the price too. The people who did this to them with corruption etc have left the club.

 

[Will_NA]

It's their fault for mismanaging themselves. I do sympathise with the fans. The former owners should be made more accountable.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Let's hope Luton come back up straight away and that they can survive as a club.

Can someone help out Southampton, before the same thing happens to them? They're in peril of going into administration as well, aren't they?

MasterBlaster76 added 5 Minutes and 26 Seconds later...

It's their fault for mismanaging themselves. I do sympathise with the fans. The former owners should be made more accountable.

As Phil said, it is always the fans that suffer. Imagine how you'd feel if it happened to Arsenal, Will. Or how we'd feel if it happened to Utd, Phil! I know the chances of either set of circumstances arising amount to City winning the CL any time soon but, just imagine what that must feel like, to be a Luton fan right now.

That song the female Luton fan was singing on Sky Sports News today sums it up. Can't remember the exact lyrics, but it was something like:

The sun's shining up in Soho Square,
But we don't feel it down here!

Had a look on youtube, no luck there either.

 

[Will_NA]

Her 'singing' is not really helping the case for Luton coming back up. Dreadful.

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Her 'singing' is not really helping the case for Luton coming back up. Dreadful.

Not the world's best singer...

 

[Skater]

They had a 10 point penalty for going into administration last season as is the norm. Then another 10 points this season for paying debts through a third party by the FA and a further 20 points for breaking insolvency rules by the Football League meaning they started this season on minus 30.

In the circumstances it was great for them to win the Johnstones Paint Trophy at Wembley the other week. Without the penalties they would now be sitting comfortably in 15th in League Two. The man who was in tears on TV yesterday was right the penalties have hit the fans and not the people who commited the crimes because they have left the club. Hopefully they will bounce straight back into the league.

Southampton found a loophole by putting their parent company into administration instead of the football club something which is being investigated. There are buyers lining up for them though so they are not in much danger of folding. From my point of view a 10 point deduction for them would be very helpful for Norwich in staying in the Championship.