A boisterous protest by Wrexham fans at the weekend has seen a trio of bidders for the club walk away, and left the current owners offering the club to the fans.
Ignoring the ban on negative banners at the Racecourse, fans paraded a string of messages around the ground and voiced their displeasure at the potential candidates to take over their club.
Along with Rob Bickerton and Stephen Vaughan, the club was also linked with Stephen Cleeve - a disgraced former parliamentary candidate that had been banned from being a company director for 12 years over a series of land deals. Cleeve confirmed his move to the press last week while Bickerton, originally fronting a bid from a mysterious offshore company, had now submitted his own offer.
Bickerton resigned his position with the club this afternoon after just three weeks as Chairman, while the club's board confirmed in a statement that they had ended talks with all three bidders and called for the supporters to make a bid.
Wrexham Supporters Trust chairman Lindsay Jones told the Daily Post they wanted to reach a solution: “What we would say to the Wrexham Village is – please open up lines of communication with the council and with the supporters trust again so that we can get a proper solution to this. The likes of Stephen Vaughan and Stephen Cleeve will never be acceptable to Wrexham fans as owners and we need to find a way forward.
“I don’t think Mr Bickerton has any credibility at all.”
The protests on Saturday did little for the team, who crashed to a 7-2 loss to part-timers Gateshead. It was the Dragons' worst home performance in 60 years.