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Next Game: Rushall At Home In The League On Saturday 30th November At 3.00pm

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Barry Town Up For Sale

Barry Town, record seven times Welsh Premier champions, are up for sale.

Barry currently lie at the wrong end of the Welsh League Division One after amassing debts of over £1m, Barry were saved from administration by current owner Stuart Lovering in 2003 after severe financial mismanagement by a consortium that included having former Wimbledon striker John Fashanu installed as Chairman. Fashanu and the consortium lasted less that a year, but the damage was done. Barry were locked out of their Jenner Park home after the council increased the rent fourfold to nearly £1000 per week, and nosedived out of the Welsh Premier with a team of amateur players from the local leagues.

Lovering claims the side is now profitable despite facing a second successive relegation, and their Jenner Park home is now occupied by Barry FC, a side created by disillusioned Barry Town fans with the Council reducing their rent demands for the new side to less than £200 per game. It will be tough to sell a homeless club with gates of less than 70 to anyone other than a die-hard fan - and most of those have already set their own club up.