City Fans United released statement following Chester City’s demise

Today, 125 years of history of Chester City Football Club was ended at the High Court, and this was a sad culmination in a period of turbulence that has seen the club slip out of the Football League for a second time, fail to pay its employees, and failing to fulfil fixtures in the Football [...]

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City’s record expunged after Blues decide not to appeal

THE Football Conference today confirmed Chester City have not appealed against the decision that led to them being expelled from the competition. It was Chester’s fellow Conference clubs who ultimately voted to kick the troubled Blues out, but only after the league’s board recommend that they do so – and it was against that recommendation [...]

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Updated statement from the Football Conference with regards to Chester City Football Club

Following the general meeting the Board of the Football Conference convened and declared in line with Football Conference Rule 13.9 that Chester City’s record in the Blue Square Premier this season will be expunged. The resultant changes to the table which will affect other club records will not be activated until any right of appeal [...]

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Is the writing on the wall following postponement of Histon clash?

Chester opponents on Saturday, Histon Football Club have announced that their fixture scheduled for Saturday has been postponed.  The statement on the official Histon website reads: “Today the Football Conference upheld the suspension of Chester City and as a result our Blue Square Premier match at home to Chester City on Saturday 20 February has [...]

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Football Conference canvas member clubs over Chester City position

According to those in non-league circles the Football Conference have asked for opinions on the Chester situation from all Blue Square Premier clubs earlier this week. If Chester are removed from the league and their results expunged it will, of course, affect each club in a different way. For example Gateshead Football Club, who lost [...]

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Chester City could face expulsion from the Football Conference following Forest Green no show

Could this be the end for Chester City Football Club? Forest Green Rovers, clearly upset by the late postonement of tonight’s Chester City clash have published the following statement regarding the matter on their official website: “The following is issued by Colin Peake in his role of Vice Chairman as of 7pm this evening. “I was [...]

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Report – Chester City 1 Ebbsfleet United 2

Kent based Ebbsfleet United became the latest Blue Square Premier club to extract an easy three points out of Chester City and in all honesty it could have been a lot worse for the Blues had it not have been for another outstanding display by City shot-stopper John Danby.  Danby pulled off a string of [...]

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Wrexham supporters to fund players wages?

Reports in the local press today suggest Chester City’s players are to be paid their outstanding wages shortly.  The Liverpool Daily Post reports the following quotes from Morell Maison: “The players were paid a week’s wages last week. There are moves afoot to pay a months wages this week, and another months wages the following [...]

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Mansfield Town thump sorry City by four goals to nil

Mansfield Town 4 Chester City 0 Morell Maison’s struggling Blues outfit were totally outplayed at Field Mill on saturday as Luke Jones scored his first two goals for the home side to set the Stags on course for a 4-0 thumping over sorry City. City are literally teetering on the brink, facing the threat of being wound up [...]

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Holdsworth sympathises with Chester City’s situation

Mansfield Town boss David Holdsworth says he has sympathy for the position in which crisis club Chester City find themselves, according to a report in today’s Nottingham Evening News. On the field, the Blues are rooted to the bottom of the Blue Square Premier table on minus three points. Off it, they have not have not [...]

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