FAO Fans of several (10) clubs with Programme Subscriptions

[ToffeeDan]

Celtic - Rangers - Arsenal - Spurs (perhaps Everton, Citteh, Wolves, Newcastle, Stoke, West Ham) - also some of these clubs' magazines

From the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spor.....rt-actions

Twenty-four hours after Digger revealed Cre8 Publishing had lost its contracts with Celtic and Rangers, it emerges that Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have also cancelled their arrangements. "Arsenal Magazine will no longer be published by Cre8 Publishing as, for various contractual reasons the club have decided to terminate the agreement," Arsenal said in a statement last week. "All current Arsenal subscribers should contact their bank and cancel any direct debit payment with immediate effect."
Spurs withdrew their programme-publication agreement with Cre8 some weeks ago, although the company still lists Everton, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Stoke City, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers as clients.

More here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/foot.....me-refunds


Celtic fans have been told to apply to the club's magazine and programme supplier, Cre8 Publishing, for subscription refunds after the club cancelled its contracts over allegedly unpaid royalties. Rangers have also cancelled their Cre8 contract and urged fans to "cancel any direct debit payment with immediate effect".

Everton, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Stoke City, West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers all have deals with Cre8, so might their fans soon suffer the same fate? Cre8's sole director, Danny Lake, has not returned Digger's calls or emails. But his firm is interesting. Lake and his fellow founder shareholder-director, Lee Power, set it up in 2008, months before their last company, Cre8 UK, was about to collapse under £2.4m of debt. But not before the lucrative club contracts were moved into Cre8 Publishing. Power later resigned as a director and his 70% stake has since found its way into a Swiss nominee company, Werdale Assets.

Cre8 Publishing has previously denied to Digger that it has any ongoing links to Power, who is apparently now a Swiss resident. But it is odd that Werdale also happened to be owed £255,000 in a debenture to Lake's and Power's Cre8 UK, of which it will at best receive a tiny fraction of its dues. So why would it entrust its latest investment to another football-publishing company of which Lake is the sole director? Lake would not say, and otherwise only Werdale knows.

[hulldon]

They supply Aberdeen programmes and I use the subscription service, which incidentally went up £30 this year. I've just been on the website and everything seems normal as far as Aberdeen are concerned, although I notice that Celtic and Rangers are no longer featured/mentioned. I haven't received this week's prog - ICT yesterday evening - but I often don't get the prog til a day or so after the match, so I hope it is confined to some clubs and not others!

[James]

The Arsenal and Spurs programme Subscriptions are done by ProgrammeMaster, Cre8ing provided the monhtly magazines, and hospitality pamphlets and other printed marketing stuff.
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[Auchinleckian]

hulldon wrote:

They supply Aberdeen programmes and I use the subscription service, which incidentally went up £30 this year. I've just been on the website and everything seems normal as far as Aberdeen are concerned, although I notice that Celtic and Rangers are no longer featured/mentioned. I haven't received this week's prog - ICT yesterday evening - but I often don't get the prog til a day or so after the match, so I hope it is confined to some clubs and not others!

the 'Tic game will be one for you to savour, no doubt?

[hulldon]

Thanks for that, John. And to think you are the first person to give me stick about that particular game!!!









After every other b**g*r who knows who I support.
As a teacher down here in England, I'm amazed how many students who have previously had no interest in or knowledge of the SPL suddenly feel the need to dicuss matches with me!!!
All I can say is that there are very few clubs who go out of their way to change their record scores in this modern age of nil-nils and boring defensive football!!!
And I'm sure Celtic getting three penalties in one game had nothing to do with the paranoid outpouring about referees from Celtic Park, who ironically enough, over the years have been generally on the right end of every refereeing blunder in Scotland along with their blue-shirted cousins from the other side of the OF!
Anyway, one can't be bitter, and having supported the Dons for 40 years, I have seen so many ups and downs, that one somehow becomes if not immune, at least used to it!