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18 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Derby County fraud exposes English football's 'fit and proper' test | Derby County | The Guardian

"It quickly turned out that the money the trio had brought to support their takeover was a £15m loan, costing 10 per cent interest a year, from a company, the ABC Corporation, registered in Panama. The source of those millions has never been confirmed; they dealt with an ABC representative in London, Philip Englefield. Senior sources at Queens Park Rangers, who had also borrowed money from ABC – around £10m – believed their money came from Michael Hunt, the former Nissan UK managing director who in 1993 was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in the UK's largest ever tax fraud. At Derby Keith said of ABC: "We can't categorically say who was involved." But Sleightholme said they had no dealing with Hunt.

Presented with the ABC money to reduce £27m it was owed, the Co-Op Bank put Derby into receivership. Then the club was immediately sold to Keith's consortium. The manoeuvre cost the former chairman, Lionel Pickering, who had overseen Derby's 1997 move to Pride Park, £12m and significant sums were also lost by other shareholders, including the property developer and Derby County supporter Peter Gadsby.

Judge Ian Alexander, who on Monday at Northampton Crown Court sentenced Keith to 18 months in prison for false accounting and Mackay and Mackenzie each to three years for conspiracy to defraud, said those three had become "controllers of the club for the sum of £3". Lowe was sentenced to two years for money laundering.

5 years later, still the 'ethical bank' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10455131/Former-chairman-of-the-Co-op-bank-uses-crystal-meth-and-crack-cocaine.html

On 14/05/2021 at 15:12, DCFClks said:

I'm not sure but I think this specific kit was only worn in one game in 1886. I think they originally changed to black and white colours  because the old clashed with Notts County's. 

Not that I dislike the Black & White but sometimes I do wish we'd kept a bit more colour.

 

We played in all sorts of coulors up to the merger with the Derby Midland FC in 1891. Which was the catalyst for the black and white. We also inherited a few decent players from them including a certain Steve Bloomer. The merger was essentially a Derby County takeover as the Midland were going bust, but to appease the members of the new board of directors who were from the Midland, we agreed to play in the Midland's black and white, but stopped short of playing in their stripes. For years after the reserves played in the Midlands narrow black and white stripes with white shorts (Juve style) as a nod to the Midland and the 1st team has been in what we we've played in ever since, bar a couple of stripy seasons in 1919-20 and Cloughy's navy shorts. 

10 minutes ago, RamNut said:

Locko Estates is a new name. I would assume that that is Mel too? 
we will have to wait to find out for sure exactly what is and what is not included in the deal and whether the club has been asset stripped in return for writing off debts? 
 

Only been around about 270years. They own most of the land around Spondon and surrounding area. 

Navy mate