Xàbia Shrimper
Co-founder of ShrimperZone
There's something very wrong with this football club. I've followed SUFC for more than 30 years and, aside from Anton Johnson's brief suicidal tenure during the first half of the 1980s, I cannot think of a worse position that Southend United finds itself at the moment. Ron Martin might spin a few good yarns that keep those wolves from the door for a few more weeks but reality lays itself out with unmistakable inevitability. The club's owners - or rather its holding company Sainsbury's Supermarket Ltd - has little interest in the future of Southend United Football Club but huge enthusiasm for the plot of land currently occupied by the Roots Hall ground. Fossetts Farm is a mere pipe dream that has masked the true intention of RHL; the liquidation of SUFC Ltd and the coerced conversion of the existing covenant which has little value against suitable investment for Southend-on-Sea. Relegation is simply part of the plan by the holding company to destroy SUFC and acquire valuable estate - it has always been so since Martin Dawn plc got involved with the football club. Count those days for they are numbered.