worst chairman ever

Was you the Hank Marvin of Goose Greeen/Winstanley area?Looks wise that is…

Bill Kenyon is coming to the 40th Anniversary Dinner on 2nd June, what reception do think he will get.
Things happen for a reason and had he not been in charge, the timeline wouldn’t have taken the turns it did to see our successes, or would it have seen them quicker?

I hope he doesn’t get grief off anybody. It’s all done and dusted. Most chairmen of clubs get stick or at best, moaned at by supporters. They’ll never please everybody, like managers. And apart from a few top clubs, theyre constantly working to balance the books.
Bare in mind Bill Kenyon took over after Pye and Heathcoate had been at the club, very difficult times. Things like getting bucket collections and that to buy Stan McEwan, seems unreal now, but it happened. It was also a very good move that Stephen Gage and Nick Bitel were brought on board, two savvy businessmen who nurtured us hough a very difficult spell on and off the pitch. Bare in mind in the early 90s we were losing players to Colne Dynamo’s, because they could pay more. Things looked very bleak. Stan Jackson spoke to Whelan and got him interested and Gage and Bitel saw the transfer of ownership go through to Whelan. For all his faults, Kenyon wasn’t that bad.

And let’s dispel the myth. He wasn’t going to move the club to Skem. It was Checquer Lane in Upholland that was considered, where the football pitches are. Also, Swinton and Warrington were both mentioned. But never actually Skem. Even as a kid, from Skem, I didn’t want us to move.

Not that bad???? When Stephen Gage took over he went through the books and there was a huge amount “missing” – I forget the exact amount but I seem to remember somewhere between £100,000 & £300,000 which for us at the time (when the club couldn’t afford to buy paper for the fax machine) was an enormous amount.
Gage started legal proceedings against Kenyon & Kenyon said that it was an odd move as it came at a time when he said supporters were asking him to come back (The Latic Fanatic did a front page cover of 1 old bloke sat on a bench under the banner “Latics fans queue up outside the ‘We Want Kenyon Back’ meeting).
Kenyon paid out of court eventually which I think tells you everything you need to know about what he was doing at the club

Not that bad???? When Stephen Gage took over he went through the books and there was a huge amount “missing” – I forget the exact amount but I seem to remember somewhere between £100,000 & £300,000 which for us at the time (when the club couldn’t afford to buy paper for the fax machine) was an enormous amount.
Gage started legal proceedings against Kenyon & Kenyon said that it was an odd move as it came at a time when he said supporters were asking him to come back (The Latic Fanatic did a front page cover of 1 old bloke sat on a bench under the banner “Latics fans queue up outside the ‘We Want Kenyon Back’ meeting).
Kenyon paid out of court eventually which I think tells you everything you need to know about what he was doing at the club[/quote]

Ha there’s not one totally legit chairman, in football. All have ‘cut corners’ in some way. The thought of people going up to Kenyon and having a go at him at the anniversary event isn’t very good.

Running a football club with 2000 crowds must be a thankless task for anybody.

Freddie Pye was before my time at a Latic but coincidentally he is mentioned several times in a book that I once read about the Manchester gangster firms. Or more specifically his scrap yard off Mort Lane in Tyldesley is mentioned as a site where people were taken to have done to them what gangsters do to people who have wronged them or need making an example of :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:[/quote]

Scrap metal dealers were (and no doubt still are) notoriously dodgy characters. Willing to pay cash to equally dodgy characters who turn up with lead, copper pipe and copper wire with no questions asked.

Freddie managed Altrincham, one of our main rivals, back in Cheshire League days. Beating them used to prompt the singing of “Freddie Pye is having a cry, hallelujah”.

Opportunist was Freddie.

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Nice bloke or not, I’d have banged him out, swapped him for his cash in his boot, and emigrated.

what do you mean?????????????????????
one robbed us of our freight rover money, the other almost robbed us from our town.[/quote]
You know what I mean. Bickmon has already taken out his 3 wood waiting for Dave Whelan to be placed on the tee.[/quote]

Cant call whelan for what he did for our club most of what i said was banter and just to wind some folk up
But whelans time is coming to a end and i give him the respect he deserves and wish him well for the future
Now for me bill kenyon was the worst sold players and bought a huge house in haydock or was it garswood with the money
Also the 2hat looked like one of the three musketeers be it a over sized one