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Posh chairman lashes out

26 Jan 2010 - 09:12:40

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Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony has launched an astonishing outburst in which he claims 'greed, skulduggery, tapping up and disloyalty from within' is threatening to ruin the club.

MacAnthony has hit out with Posh at the foot of the Championship table and two months after manager Darren Ferguson left London Road.

Ferguson had led the club to back-to-back promotions from League Two.

"I have to apologise to all Posh fans for this season up until now and for all the events on and off the field. It has been nothing short of a disaster and I can of course understand their frustrations," he told the club's official website.

"I am done with defending the players, previous management, current management and everyone else at the football club top to bottom.

"Nobody has been good enough this season and we have failed our fans in the worst possible way and this has resulted in us being bottom of the league and heading for League One in a hurry.

"I promise the fans this will be the last time I speak in the press this season, but some home truths need to be told and as always I like to be honest with the fans and as open as possible."

Ferguson has since moved on to Championship rivals Preston and MacAnthony's statement continued: " The team spirit from the last two years has nearly been destroyed by greed, skulduggery, tapping up and disloyalty from within and this has all occurred over the last 120 days or so, non-stop and is eating away at our inner core.

"Every week brings another drama and it usually involves an ex-manager, a current team member and the promise of bigger wages followed by a derisory £100k bid and all this after the player has been unsettled and offered terms behind our back.

"Ask him (Ferguson) why in the last seven days he has offered terms to some of our players without agreeing terms with our club for them and of course totally unsettling these players."