Gregor ROBERTSON
FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST

Torquay United needs its own Ryan Reynolds to save club”, so read a headline on the Devon Live website last week following news that Gulls owner, Clarke Osborne, would no longer fund the club and, with losses totalling about £5 million, administration loomed.
Afew days earlier, in the Manchester Evening News, the message coming from another National League member, Rochdale, was similarly bleak.
“The existence of Rochdale AFC is at stake,” were the words of chairman, Simon Gauge, who was seeking £2 million by the end of March to stave off liqui...