Scunthorpe United are nearly dead. What Happened?

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Scunthorpe United are dead. What Happened?
Scunthorpe United are dead. What Happened?
Scunthorpe United are dead. What Happened?

[Applause] let me set the scene the fifth of April 2009 Luton Town versus scunthorpe United the Football League trophy final at Wembley the same season that Luton Town were given a minus 30 point deduction scunthorpe were on the up lutant town went on to win that game three two and lutant town went on to get relegated in the conference Premiere at the same time scunthorpe United in that same season went on to the playoffs and met at Wembley again against millwall beating them 3-2 after this year Luton were in the conference Premier and in Dire Straits while scumpop United were playing in a championship for only their third promotion to the second division in their entire history now a fast forward 14 years later where lutant town are now playing in a premier league and living a dream of every single English football club in the country while scone for United fair to say the last six years could not have got any worse scunthorp United are nearly dead and this is why [Music] first things first comment down below your thoughts on scump United or really just any team in the kind of lower efl pyramid as sadly I do believe that scunthorpe similar to a buoy or currently as a South and United will not be the last and would be many times that we’re gonna be seeing teams going through a bit of a tough time and potentially experiencing being extinct from football I would like to shout out to a man called John who emailed me in the middle of September who gave me a long long email going in depth into the current situation at scumpop United he emailed me on regards of doing a video on his Club who are in Dire Straits at risk of no longer existing and seriously needs more attention onto them now of course I am simply just a YouTuber and what I say will not make too much of a difference in a grand scheme of things but I can understand and why it would be incredibly frustrating to have what to you is your world your football club your community fall apart and no one seems to know or care and I can completely understand the frustration that scuff up fans or any fans in the lower half a period experiencing similar Financial issues would be experiencing so yeah like subscribe and let’s get into it foreign scunthorpe United have pluntered down the pyramid and now find themselves in not only the national league but to the National League North the safe division in English football their former owner Peter Swann ran out of money or The Willpower to fund the club and in January of this year they faced Oblivion at this stage when the club was seemingly no longer resisting the media only then picked up their situation and found a new buyer called David Hilton at the time they seemingly saved a club interest from the media instantly fed it away and many assumed that everything has since been an improvement everything seemed that way at first with statements that the debts have been paid and the ground had been bought things quickly turned out however that it became clear that there was a disagreement between Hilton and Swan their former on a new owner over their ground deal and that is the big talking point here that’s their stadium in glanford park is no longer owned by scuff up United and that alone is a key problem as if you do not own your own stadium then what happens to your stadium is simply out of your control and the situation is is that as of the seventh of October they are kicked out of their own stadium because they simply don’t own it they can no longer play there and we’ll have to play 30 minutes down the road in a place called Gainsborough meaning that the fans no longer have a club in their own town and even this is in dispute as scunthorpe put out a Club statement saying that they will be playing at Gainsborough Stadium the north home however Gainsborough has came out publicly saying that this was issued without the knowledge or consent the issue is is that the granford park owner which is their previous owner in Peter swan wants a certain price and if the owner of scunthorpe is not willing to pay for it and agree to a deal then tough luck so as of right now in four days time to this video being uploaded scunthorpe or homeless but it gets worse as their current owner in David Hilton has put out a statement as of a few days ago last Thursday that he has completely withdrawn his funding to the club and who is David Hilton well no one knows as that is not even his name let’s get into that part quite a lot of speculation has arrived over their new owner David Hilton and some negative ones and concerning ones at that fair to say that their current owner has had a pretty sketchy past involving fraudulence there was also speculation at David Hilton who had accusations of going to prison he simply denied that too as it came out that his last name was not indeed Hilton but white his name was David white but changed his name due to personal reasons some truth came out that he went to prison for fraud and has gone by four different aliases in David White David Anderson David Melos and David Hilton but if you have gone down under four different names in the past then you have got to be hiding some dodgy things Hilton of course came out saying that he did serve time in prison and contradicted everything that he said previously however he came out saying that he suffered from depression and deserved a second chance however simply due to the fatty lied in the first place people thought about what else has he also lied about former players like George Taft who came out and questioned about unpaid wages and pension contributions from his time in a club so what’s happening now Scotland United were in the championship and were already seen as The Underdogs at that level and now playing in a national league North which seemingly are not doing too bad in the pitch as it stands currently sat in fourth place and the players and the fans seemingly have come together even stronger than ever with fans in the community coming together even more to help save their football club and the players have been understood to receive that message from the fans too knowing that they are not alone and that it’s not their fault but as it stands they have no money no home on the brink of collapsing as of right now simply no hope that bills have gone unpaid for the last couple weeks and months their fans many have been going home and away for years and decades are now being banned from games due to criticizing the ownership of social media you may have seen this online a bit however this is fully true that if you could size a Club online you therefore rightfully banned in the eyes of the owners on the 28th of September one of the most bleakest Club statements I’ve ever seen came out from the club social media team the walls are caving in at scunthorp United the statements said the following the club owner and chairman has recently notified the board of directors that his decision to have draw his funding from the club moving forward he has also notified them that he feels his position a club is untenable and is actively seeking a way out it went on further to disclose that falls in attendances will undoubtedly mean further cuts and this will inevitably impact the playing Squad and promotion aims scunthorpe United are currently seeking immediate and Urgent funding there is no guarantees that this funding will come the club statement even disclosed that there were no potential investors willing to save scumfall this weekend scunthorp is ready to play Brackley town at their current Ground clanford Park the club’s home since 1988. redundancies at the club have also followed with the numbers of many of the Staffing members being stripped back scunthorpe Club officers are all housed at a stadium in Glenford Park is the first team training site and it remains unclear that this would even be available or open to use after October 7th their current or I guess will be suing their former owner in David white or Hilton or whatever you want to call him gave some insight into the situation of why East doctors funding this was on Facebook where it responded back to a fan online he said the following I’ve said I’ll carry on working hard but won’t give that club my children’s inheritance knowing my days there are numbered I can always leave the keys under the map for you if you like and your Club will be gone in a week and that is what he’s done I mean imagine that imagine this happening to your Club this man has thrown scunthorp united into a fire they have no owner now with no funding therefore no wages they have no Stadium they have no Academy they have no offices they have nothing in a season that’s on the pitch has been giving us gun for fans hope being fourth place in the National League North and currently set to be likely in the playoffs everything is falling apart around them off the pitch a serious investigation was found on Hilton he pled guilty to 15 counts of fraud by a false representation it looks like the end game is here he was lorded as the savior of the club and it’s so crazy to think how fast this has all just got even worse I mean there was some hope at first Hilton’s plan of building a new stadium on the outskirts of scunthorpe a project that he said will be set in place in the 2025-26 season this is now seemingly over as is the existence of the club’s Academy which was wound up before this campaign on top of that they banned at least three supporters via email so this is where scunthorpe finally sit by the 7th of October they will simply have no hole any hope of any takeover would involve some rather large Financial commitment including the fact that scunthorpe still all 1.4 million to the efl from a covid-19 loan taken out back in 2020 including other debts and liabilities that could also add on an extra million on top of that also include buying at the stadium at the same time which involves the training facilities and also offices scunthorpe needs a investor a new owner that is fit and proper and passionate which is hard to find nowadays and willing to put three four five million into a team which seems to make no money so why would anyone do that for example the previous owner in Peter Swann who left the club earlier in the year confirmed that he lost about 20 million over his time at the club in around a eight-year time span so why would anyone take the risk and that is a sad reality of owning a football club we are seeing the next buoy in front of everyone eyes I did a video six seven months ago about South End who are going through many difficulties however this one feels like a step further and with the official statement of a cut of their funding this does appear that the club’s descent still can get deeper the man that bought the club for three pounds I mean in no world should ever pass a fit and proper owners test but yet he did and due to how desperate discomfort was at a time due to the previous ownership of swan caused this situated to happen in the first place if you ask gunfight fan I’m sorry um and and it must feel on a sort of selfish level it must feel even even more frustrating and this dare I say infuriating that you see the the amount of money spent in the Premier League the money spent by old clubs in Premier League but you know your local likes of Chelsea and how much they spent in one window and just to know that a million two million can save your entire football club the complete disparity of the divisions is just Insanity one owner once decoder what one anything to to save a football club and to save a community two million of course is a lot of money but when it comes to footballers and especially Premier League football that seems like pennies now so yeah it’s gonna hurt and I’m just and I’m sorry about that tell me your thoughts down below tell me your thoughts about where football is going especially for the lower heart because the the price of being in the championship or in the Premier League the price is so high that some clubs spend or they can to get there and if it fails then it will cost them and we’ve seen this time and time again of clubs spending too much than what he really should do to get to the promised land and fail and start falling down the pyramid and with owners at this level some are simply not fit to ruin a football club but yet get past if it’s buoy if it’s Bolton if it’s Macclesfield town if it’s Oldham if it’s Coventry City if it’s saffron United they will always be another team in crisis and it won’t end until something is put in place I don’t know what that thing is I’m not a genius I’m not the man to make that decision but someone is and I hope that that gets done soon thank you for being here and no doubt to this video will make no impact in scumbag United at all in terms of getting them out of the situation but thanks to John for emailing me and telling me his story and his Club story at least this will at least help them feel like they’re not alone and if that means anything then it’s that so thank you for being here thank you for the Love on the channel I can’t thank you enough so I’ll see you next time best of luck