Football League Judgement Day

By: Bill Osborne
Date: 01/08/2002

THE judgement in the Football League's legal battle against Carlton and Granada over the collapse of ITV Digital has been handed down today, with the judges finding for Carlton and Granada.

This news will be a shock to the Nationwide League Clubs, some of whom are on the brink of administration or receivership after ITV Digital collapsed leaving them with a 1.9 million deficit.

For Grimsby Town, the news could not have been worse with the club struggling to make ends meet, offloading players to reduce the wages bill, cutting the first team squad to the very minimum, and almost abolishing the reserve team and relying on the youth squad to fill the gap.