"What Are They Talking About?" Quiz - no. 8

[Merthyr Imp]

Who said it and when?

"By the end of last season we all realised what a disastrous year it had been financially, and we are not alone in the Football League in getting into that situation."

 

[sedgleyimp]

Gilbert Blades justifying his decision not to release player transfer funds in 1982?

 

[Merthyr Imp]

It WAS Gilbert Blades.

He was writing in the programme for the first home game of the 1982/83 season and was mainly concerned with justifying the sale of the ground to the Council earlier in the year - "Had it not been for the help from Lincoln City Council, we would have gone out of business."

 

[sedgleyimp]

Sorry for that. Just a best guess which kills the thread stone dead

 

[Merthyr Imp]

Must try and find more difficult ones!

 

[89spartans_12/03/77]

Skint one minute stoned to death the next.