Mick Norris wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:45 am
I would hope for a thorough investigation of the various deals, ideally followed by some people going to prison, but I doubt that will happen any more than I expect that Bury FC will be the only club to go down; unless football is reformed, many other clubs will follow
I fear that despite the rhetoric from various sources, football administrators don't care about clubs like Bury really. The league pyramid is such that for every Bury and Bolton who suffer this demise, there will be other clubs who move up to take their place in the pyramid. With Bury (and maybe Bolton) soon to be excluded, they'll presumably just bump more clubs up from the Conference, and as teams get shifted up throughout the pyramid, eventually Bury and Bolton - or their successor clubs with the same name - will find some vacant spots in a league that'll take them in 2019-20.
The Montreal Expos almost went bankrupt a few years back, and MLB just ran the franchise themselves, before relocating them to Washington. I'm pretty sure the Phoenix Coyotes were also owned by the NHL for a period. The franchise model actually seems to offer greater protection for keeping teams afloat, even if there is a much greater threat of franchises relocating to achieve that than in the football league system.