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The Athletic FC Podcast

Business of Sport: What happens when a club enters administration?

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman & Matt Slater are joined by football administrator Paul Appleton & business economist Mark Gregory to explain what happens when clubs like Derby County enter administration, how clubs try to survive & how English football can break the cycle of its professional clubs getting into severe financial difficulties in the first place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0

As usual, we're joined by the Athletics Mat Slater and coming up with the news that EFL side

0:54.1

Derby County are set to go into administration and face a point deduction. We're

0:58.2

joined by Paul Appleton, a leading insolvency practitioner with firsthand

1:02.2

experience in working with

1:04.2

football clubs who enter administration to explain the process. Then we're

1:08.7

joined by leading business economist Mark Gregory who's written a book that outlines his vision as to how

1:14.4

English football can break the cycle of its professional clubs getting into severe

1:18.9

financial difficulties. So let's start with Paul Appleton on the pod, a partner of Begbee's trainer, a leading

1:27.0

corporate rescue and recovery practice. Paul is a chartered accountant and a licensed insolvency practitioner who has worked directly with professional football clubs in England who have gone into administration.

1:40.4

To keep it very, very simple to start with.

1:42.8

Paul, what is administration?

1:44.8

Administration is a tool to do one or three things.

1:47.8

The first is to rescue the company as a going concern,

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