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.

The 40% were right then!

Following the poll that asked if Chester City would start the Blue Square Premier League season on August 8th, showed that 60% believed they would, with the other 40% saying they wouldn't.

Unfortunately it was the 40% who were correct in assuming that the Blues wouldn't make their second bow in the Conference on August 8th, thanks to the lack of ratification from the FA.

Just when you thought it was safe...

It's all changed again!

Just when we thought we'd got some football to look forward to, the Conference have now postponed our match tomorrow against Grays.

This is down to the FA stating that they believe the Conference will break the rules if the game goes ahead, and so a statement followed confirming the cancellation. They have also yet to validate the 25 point deduction handed out by the Football Conference.

This has thrown everything into doubt again, as its clear that Stephen Vaughan has not yet satisfied the FA that the club is in the right hands.

This is a massive blow to all Blues fans, who just want to see the team in action.

Gutted.

What next?

The season starts tomorrow at Grays

Now that Chester have finally been given permission to start the season in the Blue Square Premier League tomorrow at Grays, it's all eyes on the squad, to see what Chester can offer in their match against their opponents.

To be honest, there isn't a great deal of depth to the squad right now, but City are expected to include Michael Lea, the former Man Utd defender, who did well at Scunthorpe, and Tim Ryan, the former Doncaster Rovers defender who is the son of chairman John Ryan.

It looks as though the Blues will be without new Uruguayan signing Fabian Yantorno, and Gregg Blundell, who is back at Chester following his transfer from Darlington.

John Danby will start in goal for City, it was a major surprise to see Danby stay at the Deva following his excellent League performances, but it was a relief for Chester fans when he committed to a new deal at the club.

One signing that is expected to excite the fans is Lewis Alessandra, who has bagged two goals in his two pre-season games in a City shirt, so hopefully he can continue that kind of form, following the news today that he has signed on a month's loan from Oldham Athletic.

Hopefully City can get off to a winning start, and see themselves as -22 points come Saturday night!

Blues in 25 point deduction

It's now confirmed that Chester City will start next season with a 25 point deduction.

Sky Sports News first reported the details close to 6pm, and now the Football Conference have released a statement stating the same.

This enables the club to start the Blue Square Premier League season at Grays Athletic on Saturday.

5pm passes without an announcement

the fans were told that an announcement would be made within 48 hours on Monday, and that went past without comment or any statement from the official lines, it took a phone call to the club to actually find out when an announcement was going to be made.

That was supposed to be this morning, then we were advised that it would be 5pm today, and here we are with nothing coming out from any of the parties.

They really are screwing with our emotions right now.

Still in business?

Chester City may still be in business, but with a hefty points deduction to take forward into the Conference season, which will make Manager Mick Wadsworth's task to keep City from relegation almost impossible.

It is not confirmed yet, but City are expected to accept this penalty, which will enable them to continue playing football at least.

The FA are expected to make a decision, along with the Football Conference later this morning.