Croydon Athletic Chairman Kills Himself

Stretts · by **Stretts** » 04 Oct 2010 09:47

"The chairman of a football club whose owner was caught up in the Pakistan cricket match-fixing scandal has apparently killed himself in a garage."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... ng_Scandal

Magnus · by **Magnus** » 04 Oct 2010 14:06

Sad story, but cheaters never prosper.

Kitsondinho · by **Kitsondinho** » 04 Oct 2010 23:15

Magnus wrote:Sad story, but cheaters never prosper.

But did the chairman actually do anything wrong? He wasn't involved in the cricket scandal.......

SWLR · by **SWLR** » 05 Oct 2010 15:12

I may have read too many thrillers, but here is a plot to a new novel:

Club is used to money launder ill-gotten proceeds of owner.
Chairman - naive fan who loved the glory of being a club chairman gets caught up in web of intrigue
Realises he is out of his depth and tells owner he is going to reveal all.
Owner in turn is up to his ears with the big syndicate players he is acting for - he panics.
Hit-man hired.... Chairman dead, made to look like suicide.

I'm working on the sequel!

Terminal Boardom · by **Terminal Boardom** » 05 Oct 2010 15:46

Convenient for Croydon Crem if he was found at the ground.

Magnus · by **Magnus** » 05 Oct 2010 17:34

You could argue it doesn't really matter, and at the risk of being called a snob, but Croydon Crem doesn't strike me as a place where I'd want to spend eternity.