A Man Without A Team: A Team Without A Manager, Again. But This Time It's Very Interesting

Well, well, well.

Previous posts in this series have talked about the managership of Bangor City being a poisoned chalice, and also given props to SVJ for his football knowledge.

Now never in a million years did I or anyone else expect him to be named assistant manager at Mosta FC, over in Malta.

All SVJ has tweeted about it is that Mark Miller is the head coach out there. We await full confirmation of the rest.

The Vaughans have lots of history in Malta, including Floriana and Hibernians. Malta is a lovely place. Everyone ought to visit at some stage. But it is one thing going on holiday, and another thing getting in a spot of hot water like this.

To be fair, the Floriana experience seems to have been at least at one stage kinda positive for fans. Some familiar names in there, too. Gary Roberts, for one. A great player with serious flaws. We've all got our own stories though, our own troubles. City had a great season with Gary as slightly reluctant but ultimately marauding right-back, before he left under something of a cloud post-Europe. And he did possibly the most Gary Roberts-esque thing ever when, on his 30th birthday he first missed a penalty (he never missed pens) and then kind of quite rightly got sent off for a horrendous two-footed late challenge. Watch it here.

This story is breaking at the moment so expect a lot more to come out. Some rumours include:

* The return of two Bangor legends - Wembley scorer Paul Whelan and Sion Edwards - as management team, with an emphasis on local talent.

* local businesses getting together to boycott the club in terms of dealings and supplies

* bankruptcy notices being sent out.

Nothing at all in terms of facts yet (11.45am, Friday 23 November). But bloody hell, it's kind of exciting isn't it. The message boards are going mad... well. Madder. And there's only one these days to go mad. But still. What a fucking story eh. Tragic, sad, unnecessary, bullshitty, bollocksy, exciting.

City play tonight. SVJ will be there, apparently, still in charge. We wait for more info. The owners have been saying recently things like, "If you want the club back then buy it back". In fact, their loans are their only collateral because the loan-to-shares hasn't ever been authorised. The EGM and the AGM both failed to happen because of irregularities in their calling. So the BCFCSA remain major shareholder, and those loans remain a debt.

And one that people would be quite frankly stupid to buy up. Expect administration by the end of the season. Where that leaves the club, well, we can all guess can't we.

Interesting times.