Save Darlo
Darlington Football Club is no stranger to financial trouble. The club is in administration, again, and on Wednesday 18 January when this story starts, most people were expecting the worst.
- ITV Tyne Tees' Sport Correspondent Simon O'Rourke explains how Darlo got to this position below.
- Peter Barron is the editor of The Northern Echo (title sponsors of the Quakers' stadium). He's tweeted his heart out this week and has been out of the newsroom doing some reporting.
- Jenny Chapman, the town's MP has been working hard to save the club. She's been in - and out - of touch with the chairman, Raj Singh.
- Footballers all tweet these days, and not just the ones playing in the Premier League. And the news they had to share wasn't good.
- And then, the bit where you say "If it was a film script, no-one would believe it."
- Defender Aaron Brown told BBC Tees what the players had heard, and explained why he couldn't stay any longer as he has a pregnant girlfriend and needed some certainty.
BBC Sport - I had to leave Darlington for family reasons - BrownDefender Aaron Brown tells BBC Tees he had to end his time with Darlington so he could find a deal to help support his family after month...- The administrator took those involved in the deal away from the Northern Echo Arena so they could work out a deal. The press followed.
- Peter Barron revealed where the secret location was.
- The deal would give Darlington three more games, and perhaps more importantly, time for land deals around the stadium to be wrapped up.
