Winding up is hard to do, especially dealing with the beautiful game

THE administrators are being called in. Rarely do such seemingly prosaic words indicate such depths of despair, as well-established firms, some of them labours of love for many generations, are brought to their knees and forced to rely on the clinical rescue offered by a team of skilled business professionals.

Despite their now apparent ubiquity in the news, the professionals who actually carry out the work required when a company fails remain quietly anonymous, aside from the occasional prepared statement made in the glare of media coverage.

One such p...