So yesterday the news broke that yet another 'Big' club face winding up orders from the HMRC. Former Premier League Side Sheffield Wednesday, now in League One face another challenge off the field to survive on it.
Portsmouth, Southend, Crystal Palace and Leeds are just some of the teams that have come face to face with the dreaded taxman in court in the last few years and you can only feel that they wont be the last.
With clubs now overspending in most aspects of the game, is there really a feeling that the 'beautiful' game could rot away into nothing due to the most feared person in the country?- yes I mean the taxman not Sir Alex Ferguson.
The reality is that the taxman is becoming more and more less forgiving with clubs, in particular the smaller ones, Chester FC and Farsley Celtic have both been liquidated in the past year.
The number of clubs that have entered administration since 2008 currently stands at 13, obviously a worry for the bosses of the game.
My home team Margate FC have had too many meetings with the taxman to even remember, the fear now is that should the two cross paths again there would only be one winner, and it would not be the same winner of the last meetings.
Obviously the whole issue of administration is a massive talking point in the game, I would just like to see the games big bosses run stricter tests on new owners before as supporters we lose some of our most prestigious clubs that carry so much history and tradition with them, and more importantly before the fans that pay their well earned cash to see a game also lose their saturday afternoon entertainment.
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