National League South

MARTYRS IN DEEP CRISIS AS 80% QUIT

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
19 November 2017

By Jon Couch
MERTHYR TOWN have been plunged into crisis after the majority of the club’s board and 80 per cent of the players walked out this week over claims of major financial problems at Penydarren Park. Martyrs boss Gavin Williams was forced to pick a youth-team squad for yesterday’s trip to Chesham United and it had an immediate effect as they were sent to a crushing 13-1 defeat.
The full extent of the crisis was revealed in a meeting with the club’s hierarchy on Thursday night in the wake of the resignation of vice-chairman Anthony Hughes – one of four boardroo...

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