Why the football club I love is in danger of being eaten by Sharks

[54andcounting 0]

After what's happened at Stockport County, I'd hope we shy away from 'saviour' Kennedy.

[forlanssister 3,132]

Where did you read that FS?

 

I'm basing my replies on the OP.

 

It looks to me as though BK bought Stockport County, invested 4m & agreed a deal with his rugby club, Sale Sharks, so that that the sharks could rent the ground on match days. After which he sold the club to fans for 1 quid.

 

If it was sinister then with the club being in admin then couldn't BK just offer the administrators money to buy the stadium & essentially evict County?

 

Brian Kennedy wouldn't return my calls, either. He's the owner of Sale Sharks, the man who installed a rugby club at Stockport's Edgeley Park ground six years ago so that County are now second class citizens in their own home.

 

It's important not to forget the favours Kennedy has done Stockport in the past. He invested £4million into the club when he owned it and then sold it to the Supporters Trust for £1 in 2005.

 

I accept all that and I also accept that plenty of other people bear responsibility for the state the club is now in.

 

But let's be honest about Sale Sharks. They're squatters, basically. They're squatters who have, perfectly legally, moved into somebody's else's home while they're still there.

 

Edgeley Park isn't theirs. Not really. Money says it is, of course. But they don't have any real affection for it. They don't have any history there.

 

Why do they want to clamp themselves on to Stockport's ground like leeches? Why can't they build their own ground?

 

That's from the original post, it's pretty clear from that that Stockport County no longer own Edgeley Park.

 

Google, "Who owns Edgeley Park" then read the results.