The time when someone should have got a grip is long-gone. Sam Dale bought Bury for £1. He has a history of asset-stripping organisations. He has apparently had several offers to take the club off his hands but they all become unacceptable to him. Bury isn't dying. It is being murdered.
Bolton has been allowed to accumulate a debt that some small countries might envy. How and why? What are the authorities at, how do they think a policy of sit back and hope will resolve situations.
Step one - Mr Dale should receive a lifetime ban from any active involvement in football.
Step two - I'm afraid is that both Bury and Bolton have to expelled from the League, because I can't see any alternative - if football had the power to issue compulsory purchase orders with the agreement of the fans, Bury would be first in line.
Step Three - Would be an FA and EFL grant to help Bury re-form as Bury 2020 from scratch at maybe Northern Premier level. The club is not only Mr Dale's victim, but it is also football's victim. Everyone sat by and let it happen and then Plymouth, a club which itself would never have survived had the normal rules of business applied, has dived in, stripped Bury of manager, trusted staff and half its promotion team. (It really is dog eat dog, but it needn't be if football were properly and professionally governed).
Step Four - How to resolve Bolton, it seems impossible to me. I'm like the Irishman asked for directions who says, "well if it were me I wouldn't start from here!"
There but for sheer random luck go we all. I'm sorry about it. If it all ends for Bury on Thursday, that's what I'd call the new club, Bury Thursday so no one in football could forget. I hate it happening to them.
Bolton has been allowed to accumulate a debt that some small countries might envy. How and why? What are the authorities at, how do they think a policy of sit back and hope will resolve situations.
Step one - Mr Dale should receive a lifetime ban from any active involvement in football.
Step two - I'm afraid is that both Bury and Bolton have to expelled from the League, because I can't see any alternative - if football had the power to issue compulsory purchase orders with the agreement of the fans, Bury would be first in line.
Step Three - Would be an FA and EFL grant to help Bury re-form as Bury 2020 from scratch at maybe Northern Premier level. The club is not only Mr Dale's victim, but it is also football's victim. Everyone sat by and let it happen and then Plymouth, a club which itself would never have survived had the normal rules of business applied, has dived in, stripped Bury of manager, trusted staff and half its promotion team. (It really is dog eat dog, but it needn't be if football were properly and professionally governed).
Step Four - How to resolve Bolton, it seems impossible to me. I'm like the Irishman asked for directions who says, "well if it were me I wouldn't start from here!"
There but for sheer random luck go we all. I'm sorry about it. If it all ends for Bury on Thursday, that's what I'd call the new club, Bury Thursday so no one in football could forget. I hate it happening to them.