Dear Chelsea fans,

Wrexham and Chelsea have many links through shared players and
managers - John Neal started his managerial career at Wrexham, and
among the players we have started on their way are EWddie
Niedzweicki, Joey Jones and Mickey Thomas.

This mail is to highlight the disaster that is about to befall
Wrexham FC unless we can do something about it.

Below is a summary of the events that have caused Wrexham FC to be
facing its gravest ever crisis. Please show your support for football
and your contempt for the asset strippers by signing the on-line
petition, it only takes 30 seconds - and also get your friends and
family to do the same, in fact tell everyone who cares remotely about
football or the community.

http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html

Please forward this on to anyone you think may sign the petition. We
need to keep this moving. We are currently at 3500 signatures but we
need lots more.

The local press are virtually turning a blind eye to what is really
happening, so to be kept informed please sign up for the wrexham fans
newsletter by sending an email to wrexham.fans-subscribe@... .

Many thanks.

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Two years ago the then chairman of Wrexham Football Club, Mr Pryce
Griffiths, who was a real Wrexham supporter and had the best
interests of the club at heart, was struggling to cope with the
increased stress of running the club due to ill health and decided to
sell his 78% of shares in the club to a Mr Mark Gutterman, a property
developer, believing after several meetings that he would continue to
look after the club and take it forward.

After Mark Gutterman took over, the club won promotion back to
Division Two and everything seemed fine, but no money was ever
provided for transfer fees by the new chairman/owner and then
starting in November last year the players wages started to be paid
late and carried on being paid late until his sudden resignation last
week. On several occasions the phones had been cut off and also the
players had no hot water at the training complex at Colliers Park.

A Mr John Reames had appeared on the scene over the last couple of
months, claiming he was here as a favour to Mark Gutterman and was
not deceiving a penny for his help, and on Monday night at a board
meeting called due to Mark Guttermans departure he was made Managing
Director. He was previously involved at Lincoln City where he was
chairman and their fans cannot believe he has been allowed to obtain
a position of power at another football club.

Amazingly, Mr Reames has admitted that Mark Gutterman was never owner
of Wrexham Football Club and the owner is in fact a Mr Alex Hamilton,
another property developer who is a close friend and business
associate of Mark Gutterman, and Mr Alex Hamilton has admitted
himself "that he has no interest in football". Mr Alex Hamilton also
bought the freehold of the ground from Wolverhampton and Dudley
Breweries over a year ago for £300,000 and this was never reported in
the local press along with several other very important issues
regarding the club. The club had a 125 year lease agreed for a
peppercorn rent, this is now worthless as Mr Hamilton owns both the
club and the freehold and can do what he likes with them.

According to Mr Reames, Mr Hamilton wishes to demolish the Kop and
Yale stands during the season after next and rotate the pitch ninety
degrees during the summer break to "free up" more space for
redevelopment, once this is done Mr Hamilton will walk away from the
club with a handsome profit leaving the club debt free. This will
lead to the loss of the club car park and a reduction in capacity of
the ground by 1500.

Obviously this is very worrying for any Wrexham fan as the current
ground is a very good stadium and is better left as it is, and can it
really be believed that all the work can be done while the team still
plays at the stadium? Why do we need to build a smaller stadium on
the same site allowing a property developer to walk off with millions
in profit and pay off debts that have been created while he has been
the owner, it just doesn't make any sense apart from someone asset
stripping the land for their own benefit.

The obvious main worry is that once the work begins an excuse will be
made that we will have to groundshare because of the work taking too
long etc and we will never return as the land will be sold once we
are off site, and for anyone who doubts this is a possibility, just
ask any Brighton fan who are now fully supporting our cause as can be
seen from the petition, along with fans of all other football clubs
including not surprisingly Lincoln City.




Please help save Wrexham FC

sign the on-line petition at

http://www.petitiononline.com/WREXHAM/petition.html