King: 'I don't understand the concern.'; Prior: 'The club are struggling for cash'

Last updated : 03 September 2009 By westfield shrimper
Interviewed by the Southend Evening Echo Chief Executive Geoffrey King continues to fight the boards corner and insult ex-Blues, while one of those, centre-half Spencer Prior, is still awaiting cash promised from his testimonial last May.

About Prior King says: "He [Prior] didn't help us at all and we didn't even know who the match was against until a week and a half before the game."

He then goes on about some rubbish that Spinner wasn't changed until 30 minutes before the game.

As for the money, King can't 'understand the concern'. Crisis, what crisis?

He continued: "There was one player who didn't get paid on time one month but he had left and was accidently deleted from the payroll too soon. It's all well and good moaning from the outside but these people want to be in our seats and then they would realise how hard it is to run a football club."

King is a firm believer in attack being the best form of defence!

Good to hear from Spinner, it's a shame it's in such circumstances.

The amount of money owed has not been revealed but the Echo believes it to be in the ballpark of £40,000, of which Spinner expected after the Millwall game and King says will be paid.

38-year-old Prior spoke about his concern for the club where he made 244 appearances and won promotion four times: "I thought Ron Martin had got the club out of doldrums, but you hear stories now of them not being able to pay their players on time and it's all very concerning because Southend is a club which means a lot to me and there are debts outstanding."

If you want to read the interviews in full go here:
www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues

As for the 'cash crisis' S24 will return to the subject, but unless anything new is reported we'll return to thinking about the Orient game on Friday.

It will be good to get back to the football on the pitch!

COME ON YOU BLUES!!!!