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The Price of Football

Interview: Morecambe supporters group Shrimps Trust chair, Richard Allan

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Business, Sports

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran speak to Richard Allan, chair of Morecambe supporters group Shrimps Trust chair, Richard Allan, about the recent financial turmoil at the club. Donate to the Shrimps Trust Go Fund Me campaign here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/SaveOurShrimps Follow Kevin on X - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on X - @KieranMaguire Follow Producer Guy on X - @guykilty Follow The Price of Football on X - @pof_pod Send in a question: [email protected] Support The Price of Football on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/priceoffootball Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Visit the website: https://priceoffootball.com/ For sponsorship email - [email protected] The Price of Football is a Dap Dip production: https://dapdip.co.uk/ [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football the show that looks at the money behind the beautiful game

0:14.6

with me Kevin Day and Liverpool University's Kieran McGuire

0:18.4

Keer and I was gonna say technically it's Friday morning, but it's not it is it is Friday morning but it is it is Friday morning so you may only be with

0:26.7

me in spirit because you're on the way to Berlin for the Euro final but you're lucky

0:32.2

you were with me physically when we did this interview

0:35.0

We always like to bring you an interview of a Friday

0:38.4

And this concerns a club we have been talking about

0:46.7

With some trepidation for the last well getting on for two years Keering and that's Morcombe we spoke to Richard Allen who's chair of the

0:52.1

Shrimp's trust and a passionate

0:54.4

Walker fan to find out what's been happening at the club and what could be

0:58.4

happening in the future. This is what he had to say in a really interesting interview.

1:07.0

Richard, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

1:14.0

I would say I'm looking forward to getting some insight into the situation,

1:18.0

but to be honest, I'm probably nearly as depressed about the whole thing as you are

1:21.0

having researched it, but none of the questions I'm going to ask

1:26.0

you have got short answers suddenly so let's ease ourselves in a little bit Richard with

1:30.6

you telling us a little bit about yourself about about the Shrimps Trust and about your role within that.

1:35.6

Yeah, I'm, well obviously rich. I've been chairman of the Sports Trust for the last year or so.

1:42.0

We've, I actually helped set up the Shrimps Trust

1:47.1

seven or eight years ago when we had our last issue with ownership through a chap called Diego Lemos and that then dragged on for

1:56.8

the best part of six to 12 months which then went between

2:00.5

Diego Lemos a chap called Abdul Rachman al-Hosimi, to Graham Bernard, to somebody else, and then

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