Now or Never for Macclesfield Town

Macclesfield Town Football Club has been wound up in court over depts. and financial horror totalling more than £500,000. The club could well be on the way to repeat the collapse of Bury 

There are a number of events that have led to the potential chance the club will no longer be able to exist. Judge Sebastian Prentis made a winding-up order while at a hearing in the Insolvency and Companies Court after being informed that £190,000 is owed in tax. In addition, a solicitor for John Askey have stated the National League club's ex-manager Sol Campbell who managed the club for over a year was owed £173,000, while a financial lender was owed around the same sum. The club's owner Amar Alkadhi had asked for a further eight-week adjournment.

The request, which had been adjourned for a 12th time last week, began in January 2019 and was due to be heard again on Wednesday after Alkadhi claimed that a sale to Robert Benwell was at an advanced stage and soon to be completed.

The court was told that Alkadhi understood the amount due to creditors was actually just £4,000, had made a desperate late offer to pay an initial £20,000 of the debt owed to HM Revenue & Customs and had made available a screenshot and documents of a bank statement with £1.1m of funds to show that creditors could be paid. Judge Prentis said he would grant a compulsory order, saying, "Nothing gives me comfort that the club can pay its debts in a reasonable period" and that there had been "ample opportunity" for Alkadhi to pay off creditors.

Macclesfield recorded a 2-1 away result last night in a friendly against Wincham Park

Can Macclesfield avoid disaster?