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Stoppage Time for Scunthorpe

The inside story of a football club on the brink of extinction.

When Bury FC was expelled from the Football League after 125 years, the government commissioned a fan-led review of football's financial stability. Centring the importance of football clubs to hundreds of local communities, it recommended tough new rules about governance and ownership of football clubs. Five years on and with both Labour and the Conservatives supporting the creation of a new regulator, Scunthorpe United has become a case study for why politicians think they need to step in. A succession of owners, a string of relegations and a more than gloomy balance book left the North Lincolnshire town wondering what life without its football club might look like. But the efforts of the local community led to a small piece of hope. For Radio 4, lifelong Scunthorpe fan and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ political journalist (in that order) Jack Fenwick tells the inside story of how it all went so wrong and what happened next.

Presenter and producer: Jack Fenwick

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28 minutes

Last on

Mon 27 May 2024 16:00

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  • Sun 26 May 2024 13:30
  • Mon 27 May 2024 16:00