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The Salisbury City FC board are furious with the Football Association and the Football Conference after the Whites’ High Court appeal was thrown out at the last minute.

The consortium were due to plead their case in front of an appeals penal yesterday, but it was rejected because the independent chairman believes the group are not the legal owners of the club.

After months of bitter fighting, authorities still regard Moroccan businessman Otail Touzar as the legal owner of the Wiltshire outfit. The consortium were due to appear at the High Court today and claim ownership of the club unchallenged.

In an angry statement, the board said: “Salisbury City are being monumentally stitched up by the FA and Conference which will ultimately lead to the demise of the football club.

“The FA, who had taken the unprecedented step of hearing an appeal from two sets of owners because privately they claimed they feared being sued by a fraudulent Moroccan owner – whose only contribution to the club was to walk off with £4,000 of fans money, have now cut off all communication with the club and their legal advisors.

“This whole process is a complete farce. There is nothing independent about this process.”

The consortium also vented frustration at the Conference, believing they have acted unprofessionally, holding ‘agendas against the club’.

“The Conference and FA can attempt to dress this up how they like but their atrocious, unaccountable actions are a disgrace” continued the statement. “They are a total embarrassment to the game they claim to represent.

“What they have conspired to do to Salisbury City is disgraceful and against the moral obligation they have to the teams under their charge.”

tomogull wrote:I also liked Salisbury and looked for their results in the Conference last season. When we were in the Conference the last time, I remember a home game against Salisbury on a Tuesday night. It finished 0 - 0 but it certainly wasn't a bore draw. Both teams played football that night which was a credit to the Conference and it was extremely well refereed (not all Conference refs are cr*p !). Salisbury's manager at that time was a former Southampton player (forget his name). He got them playing some neat football.

Jeff wrote: Tommy Widdrington?

ferrarilover wrote:Imagine a football club going bust for the sake of £14,000 when the transfer window has just closed at almost £850,000,000. Matt.

tomogull wrote: Salisbury's problems go much deeper than the £14000 owed to Inland Revenue.

Trojan 67 wrote: Don't tell me . . . . . . "the fit and proper person test"

Said before and said now . . .

"The following words I ask you to read for these are the words of instruction:
Be moved by need and never by greed for greed is the seed of destruction.
Liars and cheats will deceive and accuse for these are their tools of obstruction.
Be selective and observant of friends you choose
For friends are the foundation of construction."

Ed Parker
10th Degree Grand Master Kenpo Karate

Bliddy 'ell, Trojan - that's a bit deep for the Forum !! It's true though - I don't know the details, but it appears that Salisbury have been shafted/deceived by a (allegedly) liar and a cheat and this has been the seeds of their destruction.