Macclesfield Town have been wound up - owe more than £500,000.

[MellowYellow]

Macclesfield face extinction after being wound up with debts of over £500,000

Nearly £190,000 is owed to HMRC who brought the order

Macclesfield were relegated to the National League last season

Click link for more info:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -of-500000

[Plainmoor78]

Now, do Ebbsfleet get a reprieve? If they do will the fixture list have to rewritten or will they just be pencilled in over Macclesfield's name?

[Jerry]

Macclesfield wound up with debts of £500,000, meanwhile Gareth Bale's proposed transfer is delayed by his reluctance to take a cut in his £600,000 per week wages....

[Eirik]

A shame. I remember the Norway Gulls went to an away match at Macclesfield and in one of the pubs we met a group of Norwegian Macclesfield supporters. Believe the match ended 2-2.

[MellowYellow]

Macclesfield wound up with debts of £500,000, meanwhile Gareth Bale's proposed transfer is delayed by his reluctance to take a cut in his £600,000 per week wages....

I take your point - but there is always more than meets the eye when the judiciary will not give a stay of execution. There's a long running complex history behind all of Macclesfield's woes. If you have time you can read most of It in the linked article below:

https://twohundredpercent.net/alkadhis- ... ield-town/

[tomogull]

I take your point - but there is always more than meets the eye when the judiciary will not give a stay of execution. There's a long running complex history behind all of Macclesfield's woes. If you have time you can read most of It in the linked article below: https://twohundredpercent.net/alkadhis- ... ield-town/

This is indeed a sorry and complex history of poor Macclesfield's sorry woes. I am sorry to hear of the demise of the club, any club in fact, because we have had some good games against them. I think we usually beat them, but I might be remembering with rose-tinted glasses! I fear that there will be other clubs 'hitting the buffers', especially if fans are not able to return to matches in October. It all boils down to too much money sloshing around in the Premier League and this is ruining 'grass-roots' football in Div 1 and 2 and the lower leagues.

[desperado]

Yes they beat us in their first ever game in the FL 2-1 (Andy Gurney) Remember a few 3-3's with them, think we were 3-0 up in 15 minutes in one of them. Also remember a 4-0 win in Leroy's promotion season when Kevin Hill scored a magnificent perfectly executed bicycle kick.

[lucy6lucy]

Yes they beat us in their first ever game in the FL 2-1 (Andy Gurney) Remember a few 3-3's with them, think we were 3-0 up in 15 minutes in one of them. Also remember a 4-0 win in Leroy's promotion season when Kevin Hill scored a magnificent perfectly executed bicycle kick.

I have great memories of going Macclesfield, I was at that 2-1 fixture and was indeed at that 3-3 we threw away. Real shame, a proper friendly club, just however surrounded by Manchester limited its supporter base. It’s just the start of things to come

[SuperNickyWroe]

Now, do Ebbsfleet get a reprieve? If they do will the fixture list have to rewritten or will they just be pencilled in over Macclesfield's name?

Would prefer AFC Fylde....

[Whydoibother]

I have had many enjoyable trips up there. Cracking pubs near the station too. I was there too when we were there first league visitors. Sad for there loyal fans too.

[RussianGull]

The first of many?

Without some clever budgeting, or novel income ideas there must be plenty of clubs staring down the barrel. This year I'll buy a couple of shirts at full price as a token to put a little cash into the club.

[happytorq]

Macclesfield wound up with debts of £500,000, meanwhile Gareth Bale's proposed transfer is delayed by his reluctance to take a cut in his £600,000 per week wages....

Well yeah, but that's a completely different thing.

If Bale has signed a contract for that much money and they're trying to move him out, he is under absolutely no obligation to say "yeah, ok I'll take less money to go away". If any of us were offered a job that paid half as much as what we're getting now, we'd probably not do it unless there is a compelling reason to do so. The scale of the money involved doesn't matter too much.

Definitely a case to be made about the big football clubs not giving a toss about the little ones - the so-called "solidarity payments" are a joke - but that's something entirely different to a guy who's won 4 Champions Leagues (scoring in two finals) expecting his employers to hold up their end of the bargain.

[Jerry]

Well yeah, but that's a completely different thing.

If Bale has signed a contract for that much money and they're trying to move him out, he is under absolutely no obligation to say "yeah, ok I'll take less money to go away". If any of us were offered a job that paid half as much as what we're getting now, we'd probably not do it unless there is a compelling reason to do so. The scale of the money involved doesn't matter too much.

Definitely a case to be made about the big football clubs not giving a toss about the little ones - the so-called "solidarity payments" are a joke - but that's something entirely different to a guy who's won 4 Champions Leagues (scoring in two finals) expecting his employers to hold up their end of the bargain.

Didn't suggest he should, was just using the figures as a way to point out the huge disparity in finances at the two ends of the pro game.