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POSTPONING THE GAME? IT WAS THE RIGHT CALL BY BOLTON

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ON A cold February day in 2009, I was at the Wessex Stadium in Weymouth for a very unusual football match.
Twenty-four hours earlier, Weymouth’s players were called to a meeting and told the club had run out of cash.
As of the following Monday, they were all free to find new jobs.
The expectation was that the soon-to-be-unemployed players would fulfil that weekend’s National League fixture against Rushden & Diamonds. Further digging, however, revealed that the owner had ceased paying the team’s medical insurance.
Quite reasonably, they refused to take the field.
In des...

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