I Care Deeply About This Football Club - Mostyn

Speaking in the Bournemouth Evening Echo, Jeff Mostyn speaks about why he couldn't walk away from Dean Court: "I've taken an awful lot of personal abuse, stick and comments because I just happened to be the chairman at the time. You could say, technically, I put the club into administration because I signed the document, but it was unanimously agreed by the board. We were bordering on trading insolvently and you couldn't allow the club to go on. At the time, it was thought we were going to get a 10-point penalty. The choice was to go into administration and try to come out of administration as a stronger football club going forward, wipe the slate clean and that was the choice we had. At that stage I could have absolutely 100 per cent walked away. I'd put a substantial amount of money in but I chose not to. I don't think our supporters will ever understand how much pressure I was being put under to keep writing cheque after cheque after cheque. Initially he (administrator Gerald Krasner) said to me unless I was prepared to commit to funding the administration he would liquidate the club - that was the starter for 10. EU UK put in a bid that was accepted by the administrator. Their bid was accepted on the Friday, I said my farewells on the Saturday and at 12 o'clock on the Monday, I got a phone call from Gerald Krasner saying the EU UK deal had fallen through and unless I get a cheque for £100,000 to him by midweek he was going to liquidate the club. Again, for whatever reason, I chose to write another cheque for £100,000, believing that I'd walked away. If ever anybody doubted my commitment to the football club, I think they should look very carefully over that period. Not as me being the bad person that put the club into administration and, as a consequence, we suffered a points deduction. I just happened to sign the paper but I'd done everything in my power to finance the club personally pre-administration and I actually stood up and was counted during the administration. I surely have to have some credit for not walking away and abandoning the club and saying 'I've done my bit, it's in administration, I don't care anymore'. I care deeply about this football club".