Gary Johnson: Yeovil Town should be bottom of League One NOT the Championship!

YEOVIL Town manager Gary Johnson has said that the Glovers should be “dead and buried at the bottom of League One” rather than fighting for their lives at the foot of the Sky Bet Championship.

Johnson was talking today (Thursday, February 27, 2014) about the ongoing off-the-field situation with the club looking to gain planning approval from South Somerset District Council to develop part of the Huish Park site.

The club want to gain planning permission to build a food store to the north of the ground which will then provide finance to improve the stadium and its facilities which in turn would allow them to attract better players and larger crowds to Yeovil Town.

The planning application is set to be discussed by the council in April, but as of yet the volume button on the authority’s level of support appears to be stuck on “mute.”

PHOTO - RIGHT: Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson.

Johnson, speaking ahead of this Saturday’s big Championship match at Reading, said that they needed “help from the council” in order for the club to improve its finances and have a chance of sustaining the current level of football.

“We need outside help,” he said. “The club needs to be getting bigger and stronger.”

Johnson said that most pundits within the game and their rivals in the Championship would have Yeovil down as relegation certainties because of their meagre financial resources in comparison to others in the division.

He said that some clubs were probably surprised that Yeovil “aren’t already dead and buried this season.” Yeovil currently prop up the table, but only five points separate the bottom five teams to mean that the Glovers are still very much involved in the battle to avoid relegation.

And Johnson said, in reference to the club’s lack of financial clout, that Yeovil should be “dead and buried in League One” – let alone the Championship.

That is in itself a staggering statement to make and one which should put Yeovil's money position into perspective.

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