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  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    Stig said:
    MrOneLung said:
    What are we looking at ?
    Ron Martin is up for fraud.
    I can't see anything on the net about this Stig. Not recent anyway. Definitely the owner?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    So I've been told.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Stig said:
    This'll be interesting:


    Is that THE Jason William Crowe, once of Arsenal, Portsmouth and Leeds? 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    carly burn said:
    Such an odious little man
    So what does this guy get out of Southend then?

    He can't seriously be saying that if someone offered him 40m for a club in the relegation zone of the National league that he wouldn't sell the club?
  • Carl Leaburn
    Carl Leaburn Posts: 1,117
    He is waiting for the new ground to be approved. Roots Hall will be developed with housing and the new ground with have a hotel and retail, along with further housing. This is how he recoups any money he has outlaid over the years on the club and why he will never sell.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,442
    In todays 'Sun'
    By Joshua Jones

    Southend pair on tax charge

    Two Southend bosses will appear in court today charged with conning the taxman out of more than £5 million.
    Current chairman Ron Martin 68 as well as former director Geofrey King 75, are accused of cheating HMRC  by  failing to pay VAT in two land deals to house developers Redrow homes PLC.
    The first relates to a £920,000 tax bill in 2016 in Essex & the second, three years later, for £4.485m in Cheltenham.The cases will be heard at Westminister Magistrates Court.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    Carl Leaburn said:
    He is waiting for the new ground to be approved. Roots Hall will be developed with housing and the new ground with have a hotel and retail, along with further housing. This is how he recoups any money he has outlaid over the years on the club and why he will never sell.
    Meanwhile he runs the team into the ground and by the time their 22k seater new stadium (yes apparently the stadium plan is for a ground that big) is built they might be in the same league as Welling.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Todays was a committal hearing. Martin now up before Crown Court in November.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,905
    That amount of tax evasion wont be a slap on the wrist! HMP service awaits I would think
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    HMRC v Ron Martin on Wednesday. Some Southend fans I know predicting that it'll be the end of their club. Very sad situation. 
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  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    Stig said:
    HMRC v Ron Martin on Wednesday. Some Southend fans I know predicting that it'll be the end of their club. Very sad situation. 
    Yes indeed iit is. I thought there was a takeover in the offing. Has this not materialised?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    If that's the Kimura deal, I'm told that's off the table.
  • willieduff
    willieduff Posts: 986
    Very sad state of affairs. Good set of fans and a traditional club.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Lost count of how many times I’ve seen us at Roots Hall.
    I hope somehow Southend survive.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    Kips said:
    Stig said:
    HMRC v Ron Martin on Wednesday. Some Southend fans I know predicting that it'll be the end of their club. Very sad situation. 
    Yes indeed iit is. I thought there was a takeover in the offing. Has this not materialised?
    From what i've read they discovered a lot more debts that Ron Martin hadn't been transparent about.
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    I never like to see a club go out of business, sorry for all of their fans, who can do nothing 
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987

  • JorgeCosta
    JorgeCosta Posts: 1,035
    Very sad. I live near Southend and there are so many decent fans. They really deserve so much better.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    https://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/23649214.water-switched-off-woes-continue-cash-strapped-southend-united/
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987
    Things don't look good at all but i hope they're saved today or at least get some kind of reprieve that gives them a bit more time.
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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,987

    Southend United have been given another 42 days to pay off their HMRC tax debt.

    Shrimpers chairman Ron Martin was back in the High Court this morning after the initial hearing was adjourned back in May.

    And his application for a second adjournment was granted, meaning he now has until August 23 to pay off the £275,000 debt.

    However, doubts still surround the future of the club as the National League must now decide whether or not to allow Blues to remain in the fifth tier of English football.

    The National League season kicks off on 5 August.

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Some years back Scarborough disappeared with similar anonymity. A phoenix club, Scarborough Athletic, now plays in the Northern National League.

    Southend though have played at higher levels than Scarborough ever managed. £275,000 is a night out for some in the higher echelons of the game.

    Disgraceful that a Community Club will probably disappear for Premiership players' small change.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Post from another thread: 

    mattinfinland said:
    Being relatively close is there anything we can do to help Southend out? Enjoyed several away days there over the years and we all know to well to an extent what it’s like to be in their position. No supporter should lose their club because of bad ownership.


  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,553
    LenGlover said:
    Some years back Scarborough disappeared with similar anonymity. A phoenix club, Scarborough Athletic, now plays in the Northern National League.

    Southend though have played at higher levels than Scarborough ever managed. £275,000 is a night out for some in the higher echelons of the game.

    Disgraceful that a Community Club will probably disappear for Premiership players' small change.
    Amount they need is the difference of a weeks wages for Henderson in Saudi opposed to a week in Liverpool. Is this what football has come to? I don’t like it one little bit.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,516

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Seems a funny place for a protest. I can only guess that's where Ron Martin lives.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    A couple of us popped along this afternoon. We got a great reception from the Southend fans. I don't think any other clubs had anyone turn up. All was very good natured. Best thing was the number of cars honking, so there's a lot of support even if much of it is passive. 


  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    Not many there in the photo, looks more like a Post Office queue. 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    They've stretched it across the day so people have come and gone. tbh I think they probably didn't want too many there at any one time, because it's outside the guy's house so may be seen by the cops as provocative. 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,832
    edited July 2023
    Stig said:
    They've stretched it across the day so people have come and gone. tbh I think they probably didn't want too many there at any one time, because it's outside the guy's house so may be seen by the cops as provocative. 
    So is the chairman's house the one whose wall they are sitting on, or is it the more gaudy looking one with all the fences just to the left on the opposite corner out of shot? (Thanks GoogleMaps)

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