{"id":330234,"date":"2025-08-09T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330234\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:47:11","slug":"community-rallies-round-morecambe-fc-staff-and-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/330234\/","title":{"rendered":"Community rallies round Morecambe FC staff and fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morecambe were put up for sale by owners Bond Group in September 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A sports investment company, Panjab Warriors, were in line to buy the club, but a deal has not yet been signed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Shrimps were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlz899y883o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended by the National League<\/a> until 20 August over a failure to comply with the league&#8217;s rules, meaning their opening three games of the season have been suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, urged the Bond group and Jason Whittingham to &#8220;do the right thing, to ensure the outcome that every Morecambe fan and every football fan wants&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sal Sultans&#8217; had this message for the owner: &#8220;Think about our community and think about our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC is yet to receive a response from Mr Whittingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morecambe were put up for sale by owners Bond Group in September 2022. A sports investment company, Panjab&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-330234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114998178195194248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}