According to the weekend press, Homeserve are the subject of a take over bid from a bunch of Canadian financiers. As a result their shares rose by 15% which values the company at over £3 billion!
Maybe the uncertainty about their future has led to the alleged reduction in sponsorship? Whatever the case I am absolutely gobsmacked to learn that the company is valued that high on that Stock Exchange.
In 2021 the owner, Richard Harpin was worth an estimated £627 million! I wonder if he wants to give something back to the town that’s made him so wealthy?
They were surely promoted from the old third division in the eighties when they had the plastic pitch and Frankie Bunn smashed a few goals past us they would then of had to be promoted to what became the prem they were there in the nineties
I had to look it up when I heard it because I was sure it couldn’t be correct.
We played them for a couple of seasons when I first started following Walsall then they disappeared for over 20 years, apart from that one season in 88-89.
I think they must have been promoted the season after.