The decision to stop payments to all creditors was par for the course - cynical and inhuman, something that wasn't acceptable even a hundred years ago. Why the shock announcement last week? Torex shares have been on the up for weeks. Why be so crass as to include players wages in the freeze and thus raise the spectre of breach of contract and employment rights issues, and thus create more liabilities? Because it all served Moore's Machiavellian plans - to avoid insolvency, where he would as an ordinary creditor be lucky to get any dividend at all (he would lose, but Latics would win its survival), he wanted to cause panic and force a takeover bid. Even the new "Trust" sounds and looks like an addition to the totalitarian structures at Boundary Park.
All good luck to the mystery bidders - and if successful, they need to look at the financial systems at the club to ensure there has been no malpractice. In any event, it would be helpful if Michael Meacher used some of his new-found leisure time to investigate a ne'er-do-well capitalist on his doorstep.
Tom Green
Kingston upon Thames