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Former Darlington chairman: "I don't care"

Jan 8 2012 Sunday Sun

George Reynolds

DARLINGTON FC's ex-con former chairman has boasted he "doesn’t care" the club could go bust in the coming days.

The 128-year-old club was last week placed into administration for the third time in only nine years and fans fear that if a buyer cannot be found by January 21 then it will be curtains for the Quakers.

But as more than 1,000 of the Feethams faithful crossed the Pennines to cheer their beloved team play what may have been their final match, businessman George Reynolds has hit back at those who blame him for starting the club on the rocky road to oblivion.

Speaking to the Sunday Sun, the 74-year-old, who became chairman in 1999, built a £20m, 25,000-seater stadium that he named after himself and announced grand plans to take the club from the third division to the Premier League in only five years said he doesn’t believe it is fair that he gets the blame.

“The supporters blame me but if it had not have been for me they would not have a club at all. I gave them a new stadium, the other one was crumbling,” said Reynolds, of Langley Park, County. Durham.

The ex-con, who was jailed for three years for tax evasion in October 2005, has had no involvement with the club since it originally went into administration in 2000.

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