May 6th 2013:
Today Yeovil beat Brentford in League One Play Off Final to clinch promotion to the Championship. In a 2-1 win at Wembley the Glovers overcome the London favourites to ensure they would bring second tier football to Somerset. However after the game it is announced that the FA are aware of suspicious betting patterns on the game.
A Yeovil Town fan laps up the atmosphere at Wembley with his trumpet!
May 8th 2013:
FA announce official investigation into the League One Play Off Final result. Following massive bets on Yeovil to win the game, and with a 2-1 victory, arriving from betting syndicates in Eastern Asia, the governing body of English football had to quickly act.
May 14th 2013:
FA SUSPEND YEOVIL TOWN FROM COMPETITIVE FOOTBALL.
Following the investigation it arises that an unnamed Brentford Director and several Yeovil players and staff members had colluded to act together to ensure a 2-1 win for the underdogs. Yeovil having won the game are instantly removed from the Football League, whilst Brentford are fined, and the Director given a life ban from football.
May 15th 2013:
Yeovil Town, whose fans just nine days ago were celebrating promotion, cease to exist, as the club becomes extinct.
The doors of Huish Park close for the last time.
May 17th 2013:
Unwilling to completely affect the structure of the Football Pyramid by promoting teams from divisions below, the FA and the Football League instead make the unprecedented move of looking to help setup a brand new club somewhere in England, to fill the gap left in the Championship. Up and down the country there is outrage and intrigue, as former professionals and business men quickly act to sort out their bids, with the deadline just under three weeks away.
June 6th 2013:
Following a media frenzy and high levels of coverage three front runners fight to become England's new club. Tomorrow the winner shall be announced.
The papers are full of rumours over potential clubs!
June 7th 2013:
AM: Newcastle Rovers join the Sky Bet Championship!
Following the quick application process, and a vote from FA board members at Wembley, a new club is created, and in the process making Newcastle a two club city for the first time since 1892.
The group, led by a consortium of disgruntled wealthy Newcastle United fans, had appealed to the FA to allow the creation of the club, to give the people of the city their own club again. Citing the continued unpopular leadership of Mike Ashley at St James Park, and with the support of former Toon legend Alan Shearer amongst many other ex-players, Rovers won the vote by a land slide.
PM: Details of the new club are presented to the awaiting media and public. Plans for a new stadium have already been agreed and construction will begin immediately, in time for the 2014/2015 season. Until then the club will share the International Stadium with Gateshead. With no staff, players or employees the owners face a rush to ensure they have a team ready to compete in the coming season, all with a transfer budget of just 6 million and a wage budget of 100k p/w!