Friends of Bootham Crescent

FoBC campaign 2002-2004

News archive - November 2002

30 November 2002

Evening Press - Johnny be off, by Dave Stanford
IT'S been another week of worry and confusion for fans of York City. But amid all the uncertainty one thing seems clear - it's time for John Batchelor to do the decent thing and hand over the club in its entirety to the Supporters' Trust as soon as possible. More

Evening Press - Accounts unveil club's transfer, by Dave Stanford
COMPANY accounts for Bootham Crescent Holdings leaked to the Evening Press show it sold a house on Grovesnor Terrace to York City for £125,000. The house - valued recently by club chairman John Batchelor at between £300,000 to £320,000 - was previously owned by the football club until the formation of BCH in 1999. More

Evening Press - Batchelor opts for quiet life, by Dave Stanford
PLANNED talks between John Batchelor and the York City Supporters' Trust over the future ownership of the football club failed to take place yesterday. More

Evening Press - Life or death battle, by Matthew Woodcock
ANGRY York City fans dressed as grim reapers to collect signatures for a petition against the planning application to build on Bootham Crescent. Members of the Harrogate Minstermen, the newest branch of the York City Supporters Club, donned the scary costumes to publicise just how severe the threat of extinction facing the club is. More

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