Post by QPR Report on Sept 9, 2009 9:52:59 GMT
Lancashire Evening Post
Football chiefs accused of betrayal over museum
The Football League, Premier League and FA declined to draw up a long-term funding package for the museum
09 September 2009
By Mark Hookham, Westminster Reporter
Football chiefs have been accused of "betraying" the game's proud Lancashire heritage after refusing to stump up the cash needed to keep the National Football Museum in Preston.
Preston Labour MP Mark Hendrick said it was "obscene" that the football authorities have not tapped into the game's immense wealth to help guarantee the museum's future in the city.
The Lancashire Evening Post has been told that museum bosses have spent months desperately trying to persuade the governing bodies of football to help plug a £500,000 black hole.
But the Football League, Premier League and FA declined to draw up a long-term funding package.
Museum bosses say that by early this summer they were left with no other option but to approach Manchester City Council and enter into talks about transferring the museum to the Urbis exhibition centre.
Mr Hendrick said: "With the exception of the FA, the Football League and the Premier League have betrayed football's roots and football's heritage.
"With the money flowing around football at the moment, I think it is obscene that the football authorities cannot come up with the sufficient finance to protect the heritage of the game and keep it in its rightful home in Preston.
"This is the home of football and what the football authorities have done by neglect has caused the museum to be wrenched away from its natural home."
For more on this story, see Wednesday's Lancashire Evening Post
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www.lep.co.uk/national-football/Football-chiefs-accused-of-betrayal.5630670.jp
>> Preston set to lose National Football Museum
>> Manchester United legend: Museum should stay in Preston
>> Football museum row reaches Parliament
>> 'Keep the football museum in Preston'
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Football chiefs accused of betrayal over museum
The Football League, Premier League and FA declined to draw up a long-term funding package for the museum
09 September 2009
By Mark Hookham, Westminster Reporter
Football chiefs have been accused of "betraying" the game's proud Lancashire heritage after refusing to stump up the cash needed to keep the National Football Museum in Preston.
Preston Labour MP Mark Hendrick said it was "obscene" that the football authorities have not tapped into the game's immense wealth to help guarantee the museum's future in the city.
The Lancashire Evening Post has been told that museum bosses have spent months desperately trying to persuade the governing bodies of football to help plug a £500,000 black hole.
But the Football League, Premier League and FA declined to draw up a long-term funding package.
Museum bosses say that by early this summer they were left with no other option but to approach Manchester City Council and enter into talks about transferring the museum to the Urbis exhibition centre.
Mr Hendrick said: "With the exception of the FA, the Football League and the Premier League have betrayed football's roots and football's heritage.
"With the money flowing around football at the moment, I think it is obscene that the football authorities cannot come up with the sufficient finance to protect the heritage of the game and keep it in its rightful home in Preston.
"This is the home of football and what the football authorities have done by neglect has caused the museum to be wrenched away from its natural home."
For more on this story, see Wednesday's Lancashire Evening Post
click here to get to links
www.lep.co.uk/national-football/Football-chiefs-accused-of-betrayal.5630670.jp
>> Preston set to lose National Football Museum
>> Manchester United legend: Museum should stay in Preston
>> Football museum row reaches Parliament
>> 'Keep the football museum in Preston'
>> Vote in our latest web poll