Everything I’ve read indicates 1994, but that’s not been supported by data. How did you come across 1995?
Also, anyone here get land registry access with their job - that’d help solve the debate!
It’s a sad state of affairs that 10 years have passed and we’re putting up with the same ■■■■■… in some areas worse.
And recently the club have put out their own definitive spin on what happened back then. 
Two can play that game. 
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Feathering his own nest at the expense of the future of the club is what it looks like?
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It’s not what it looks like.
It’s exactly what it is.
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From the club’s own version of events, third last para In 1995, the opportunity arose to acquire the Freehold of the Bescot Site from Severn Trent. At the time, the Club explored every avenue available to be able to purchase the Site itself but this would also have meant initially purchasing the Lease followed by the Freehold and once again the Club was not in a position to pursue the transaction and came up against a brick-wall in attempts to finance the deal.
Then paras second last and last if you havn’t thrown up by this point Once again, the only way to ensure that the Freehold did not go to an outside investor or developer at this time was for the SSAS to purchase it. This was done with the aim, at some point in the future, of reuniting the Club with a Freehold that the Shareholders had agreed to sell back in 1988.
This remains one of the Club’s key objectives to-date and work has been ongoing to achieve this ever since. Despite many setbacks and dead ends the Club is committed to exhausting every avenue possible in the hope of making this a reality.
Essential reading for any Saddler, the whole sorry tissue of bull Club History - Walsall FC
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Thanks, Geordie. Now check your PMs!
If you have enough investment companies, circling like vultures buying bits of the club off each other, would this be legimately referred to as a ‘smokescreen’?
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This is the crux of the issue. When is it enough? how much has to financially extracted from for Walsall FC until its enough? another 5 years worth? 10 years?
Another 100 years?