Conference Clubs now vote on Chester's future

In the last few days, Chester City fans have seen their emotions literally go on a roller coaster ride, at the beginning of last week, the Club were relying on Solicitors & Refresh Recovery to get the Club's paperwork in order with the Football Association to get their licence to play football.

This was not achieved.

Then on Thursday, a deal was struck where Chester would accept a 25 point penalty to begin the season with. So football was the subject of fans talk once again, and who would be playing in the first game at Grays.

A deal was struck - or so we thought.

On Friday, it was then revealed that the FA had ordered the conference to postpone the game or face being in breach of the rules, and so the Conference bowed to the demands, and called off Chester's opener.

Over the weekend, we have now heard that the Conference have been asked by the FA to canvass each Blue Square Premier League club to see if they want Chester City to take part, and have demanded that anything but a unanimous vote will see the Blues kicked out of the BSP.

Early indications show that Chester have the support of the Conference clubs, and hopefully this will be confirmed by the Conference tomorrow morning, after the 10am deadline.

It also looks likely that the Gateshead match will be called off tomorrow, unless the FA seem happy to grant City with that much needed licence to play the game of football.

The saga continues into another week then.

CVA overturned - what next?

Yes, the news came through yesterday evening that the Court had overturned the original CVA that had been agreed through Refresh Recovery & the Creditors of Chester City FC.

The Judge in the case ruled in favour of the HMRC, who had challenged the validity of the CVA, linking their doubts to the role of Stephen Vaughan, who was representative of the company that put the club into administration, yet was also featuring as a creditor, and also as a figure head of the company that had taken them out of Administration.

So, it's a case of what next for City?

The Administrators say that they are in discussions with the FA about getting their licence to play football in the Blue Square Premier League, which as we know is scheduled to start on August 8th, but how likely this is, we just don't know.

It is my opinion that City will get the licence back, but at a cost, either a further points deduction, just like Leeds & Luton received, or it could be that Chester get booted out of the Conference set up, and drop into the 21 team Unibond League, which would be the easier option I'm sure if the FA were looking to place Chester in a League.

There is a lot of mileage left in this one yet, but I just hope it's not the end of Chester City Football Club.

Who is to blame?

So, today we were expecting news from the Court case that was to see Refresh recovery, the Adminstrators, against the HMRC, in an attempt to remove a "stumbling block" as the Club called it.

No news was forthcoming from the Court, however, there is talk that the case is actually tomorrow, however, when i contacted Refresh Recovery, to speak to either Bill Brandon, or Martin Shaw - the two men who oversaw the CVA - they were both out of the office, so will try again tomorrow for an update.

Fingers crossed for a positive outcome.