I'm a Brentford fan and our wealthy fan made his money out of betting on football! We had a situation a few years back when Ron Noades bought the club as some kind of plaything - appointing himself as manager. While we were winning he seemed to be pumping loads of money into the club but we discovered later he was just running up a tab on our overdraft. When we stopped winning and the pressure was on he just disappeared and all our best players were sold off. He then 'sold' the club to us with debts of £7 million. We were lucky in having Mathew Benham our millionaire gambler pop out of the woodwork and give us a 5 year interest free loan along with Greg Dyke taking over chairmanship. Also we still own the ground.
Your gonna have to hope somewhere in your crowd there is a businessman or consortium with enough love for the club to lend a hand. I always feel upset when I hear of small clubs struggling in this way. In fact we are all struggling and why becuase of the Premier league (henceforth I shall refer to it as the Greedy Bastards league). Before they decided to keep all the money in their grubby little mits and turn the beautiful game into corporate entertaiment, money would trickle down. It was hard but livable in the lower leagues. The greedy bastard league also pumped up wages so artificially high that it has trickled down having an impact on lower league wages. The telly is no longer intewrested in lower leagues, most young kids only consider supporting top teams and just to show how much they care about football the league start imposing killer rules like the small transfer windows and the 6 players on the bench rule. Meaning it's hard to sell when you need to and you have to pay hotel fees etc for 6 subs.
Damn, I feel so annoyed when I think what's been done and before anyone says it's the real world it's the market. Football was always a community driven sport - it's only since the advent of the Greedy bastard league it has become a purely financial commodity. I hope eventually people realise they are being done over and there is some kind of backlash like the Rage against the machine Xmas movement. People go see real football where you get to know the players, where you have an influence on your club where you feel a part of your club your community before it's too late!
ahhhhh that's it rant over