Stoppage Time for Scunthorpe

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BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Bury FC was expelled from the Football League after 125 years, the government commissioned a fan-led review of football's financial stability. Centring the importance of football clubs to hundreds of local communities, it recommended tough new rules about governance and ownership of football clubs. Five years on and with both Labour and the Conservatives supporting the creation of a new regulator, Scunthorpe United has become a case study for why politicians think they need to step in. A succession of owners, a string of relegations and a more than gloomy balance book left the North Lincolnshire town wondering what life without its football club might look like. But the efforts of the local community led to a small piece of hope. For Radio 4, lifelong Scunthorpe fan and BBC political journalist (in that order) Jack Fenwick tells the inside story of how it all went so wrong and what happened next.

Presenter and producer: Jack Fenwick

Transcript

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasulae. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. It's October 2023 and I've joined hundreds of scumf up united fans including my dad
0:59.9	on a march towards our home ground Glenford, for what's set to be our final ever game there.
1:06.0	The club's been on a downward spiral in recent years, both on the pitch and financially,
1:15.6	and without a home, it'll likely die altogether.
1:19.2	There's been a lot of people followed this club for years and years and
1:23.7	years. It says United. That's what we are here. We are Scunthorpe United.
1:30.3	And how would you feel if Scunthorpe's home was no longer Glanford car?
1:35.0	Oh, it would be like having a death, wouldn't it?
1:38.0	This is the Scunthorpe ground.
1:41.0	This is the Scunthart people.
1:43.0	My name's Jack Fenwick.
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