{"id":32627,"date":"2025-07-30T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32627\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:34:08","slug":"morecambe-first-team-stop-all-football-operations-over-lack-of-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/32627\/","title":{"rendered":"Morecambe: First team stop all football operations over lack of insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first team at Morecambe have stopped all football operations as the uncertainty around the future of the club continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Shrimps were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/crlz899y883o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suspended by the National League<\/a> until 20 August on Monday over a failure to comply with the league&#8217;s rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London-based sports investment company Panjab Warriors, who have been in talks with the club&#8217;s owner Jason Whittingham for more than a year, released a statement to say they remain &#8220;ready, willing and able&#8221; to take over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they have confirmed that the takeover has not been finalised and have &#8220;implored&#8221; the current owners to complete the sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A joint statement issued by Panjab Warriors, minority shareholders, the Shrimps Trust and the local MP Lizzi Collinge said: &#8220;The first team have had to stop all football operations as the required insurance which was in place has now lapsed as payment has not been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result of this escalating situation more first team players have left the club, with further players set to leave by the end of this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first team at Morecambe have stopped all football operations as the uncertainty around the future of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-32627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}