Sunday, 5 February 2023

Southend

If there are any Arab billionaires or Hollywood legends reading this, could you come and buy Southend United please.
A club who in the last 30 years came close to the Premier league, used to be able to fill it's ground, so a potential "sleeping giant".

Southend the home of the world famous longest pleasure pier in the world, and a local population of 200k with another 500k within a 30 minute drive (traffic permitting).

For the last 25 years the club has been owned by a businessman who has shown almost governmental level ineptitude in running the club, with frequent winding-up orders, transfer embargo's, late or non payment of taxes, players, staff etc.
As recently as 2006/7 the club were in tier 2 (Championship), now they are in Tier 5 (same league as Wrexham).

For 22 years there has been a promise of a new state of the art ground with a 22k capacity, every year we hear it's "coming soon" but has never happened, and probably never will.

So rich people, if you fancy joining the growing list of people who do something other than hiding their money in offshore accounts, this is the opportunity.

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