𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

[Communications Team]

𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛

20 Years ago today (26th July) possibly the most important meeting in the club's history took place in the Grand Hotel Birmingham

A consortium led by Dave Warren fought off an approach by Oxford United's Chairman to buy the club from creditors and move it to Oxford.

All Birmingham Moseley Supporters owe a great debt of gratitude to those individuals who through their work, selflessness and financial support means that we can still support such a vibrant, growing club in Birmingham, with a history stretching back 150 years.

Thank you all.

[londonexile]

Jul 26, 2022 10:27:10 GMT Communications Team said:

𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛

20 Years ago today (26th July) possibly the most important meeting in the club's history took place in the Grand Hotel Birmingham

A consortium led by Dave Warren fought off an approach by Oxford United's Chairman to buy the club from creditors and move it to Oxford.

All Birmingham Moseley Supporters owe a great debt of gratitude to those individuals who through their work, selflessness and financial support means that we can still support such a vibrant, growing club in Birmingham, with a history stretching back 150 years.

Thank you all.

Well done to Dave Warren and all those also involved. Thank you!

[rogerhildreth]

And we must not forget the late Peter Woodroofe who despite being a large creditor, voted against the take over deal. IIRC, his vote made the difference.

[Communications Team]

Jul 26, 2022 11:25:06 GMT rogerhildreth said:

And we must not forget the late Peter Woodroofe who despite being a large creditor, voted against the take over deal. IIRC, his vote made the difference.

Roger

Quite right the vote was extremely close being less than 2% majority in favour, so without Peter's support things could have been very different

[markd]

I remember refreshing websites regularly at around 5pm. I think I might have been the second person to post the news on the then message board. I had also attended the meeting at the Council House where, IIRC, Dave Warren, John Beale and Derek Nutt said not a public word between them.

Over the years since, particularly when things look bleak on the pitch, I manage to remind myself of how fortunate we are to have a club to support.

The highs of promotion, the opening of the new stand and the incredible EDF win stand against the lows of no proper facilities at the University (other than the all important pitch and posts!), relegation, numerous flirtations with relegation, a 55-0 home defeat to the Bees, a 103-3 defeat at Rotherham and numerous others. But at least we have a club.

As always I look forward to the new season with a degree of hope and dread. Some great signings on paper, a core of the squad who have some knowledge of the systems are weighed against the need for an immense improvement in defence and the reality that everyone else will have been trying to improve their squad and systems too.

But at least we have a club.

I'm still slightly miffed that my suggestion of calling the ground The Warren wasn't taken up! Thanks Dave and all the others who have taken us 20 years on.

Come on Mose!

[southernmose]

Jul 26, 2022 19:56:14 GMT markd said:

I remember refreshing websites regularly at around 5pm. I think I might have been the second person to post the news on the then message board. 

I was at sea in a patrol boat - from memory somewhere off the north coast of France. Tbh, it was still possible to exist in the pre-internet age then, and I had just done my finals, so I remember reading about it in the newspaper in Portsmouth and being a bit stunned that any of it had even happened - talk about being out of the loop. Suddenly aware just in time to know the outcome. I'd probably not been to a game for 2 seasons before all that.