Number 7, Your time is up

I’m sitting in the campsite library, bathed in sunlight in the heart of France, kicking back listening to music and taking it easy but yet I’m troubled, very troubled. Another court case was expected to pass with the same tedious inevitability, another two, possibly four weeks and another court case, but what has transpired is much worse.

TNB never seemed like the permanent owner of the club, a maverick, a spoofer. But now it seems like no amount of spoofing or lying will get us out of the situation we find ourselves in currently. €400,000 in 3 weeks is a daunting task for bigger clubs, but for a club the size of Cork City it is nigh on impossible, and it seems like the club that has inspired and brought people together for over two decades will come to a premature end. The man that promised a ‘transparent’ club has brought nothing but lies and trouble to a club, and a city that has seen it all too many time before. A great trip to Galway saw awful football, some masterful play by Faz and Colin, two goals and three points secured. Then yet another shocking and pitiful effort saw us succumb to a late Ryan Guy goal, 0% against St Pats at home, simply not good enough against a team struggling in mid table. Soon talks of 100k for Colin Healy and Denis Behan were thrown about, Hartlepool United the interested party. Following the court case we saw the pair depart for half that amount. Coughlan once again taking the easy and selfish way out (This following Kevin Doyle’s departure to Wolves that would have earned the club enough money to stay stable for another year had our Chairman shown some patience) That Pats game is most likely my last game watching City and it brings to an end more then 15 fond and memorable years with the Rebel Army.

It is most likely a new club will be set up, with new staff, players, chairman, kit, crest, you name it. The hard work of those travelling and working with City will have been for nothing, yet another Leeside club consigned to the memory banks, yet another huge amount of time and money thrown down the drain. When the new club is set up how long will it last? How can we say that the same mistakes won’t be made? It seems that another dark period in Cork soccer has dawned and the famous Cork sporting public will be too busy watching re-runs of last years Premiershit games to shed a single tear. The amount of friendships and relationships that have been formed through Cork City are endless and without a common bond it seems that these will wilt and die, along with the club that has formed them.

Over the coming weeks no doubt the supports will do everything and anything to prevent the club going under, but one can’t help but feel that these are feeble efforts to plug a sinking ship that has . 10 months ago we were singing that we’d never die, but now it seems like the gravestone is carved and all that’s left is the burial

In loving memory of Cork City FC

Murdered at the hands of a rouge chairman following financial difficulties. All associated with it will miss it dearly

RIP 1984-2009