7 Mar 2008Gretna future hangs in the balance

Scottish Premier League side Gretna are to hold crisis talks with their financial backers.

It comes after manager Mick Wadsworth admitted that the club could go out of business.

A paltry 501 spectators turned out to watch Gretna in their last match, which they lost 3-0 at home to Dundee United.

That is the lowest attendance ever recorded in the Scottish Premier League and is a sign of how bad things are at the bottom-placed club.

Gretna's money troubles became public knowledge when the club failed to pay its players. This has now been resolved but Wadsworth has since highlighted the scale of the problem in no uncertain terms.

"There's a lot of difficulty at the moment. The finances and the survival of the club is on everyone's minds and that takes precedence. We are on a sticky wicket, put it that way," he told the BBC.

"People have worked really hard to keep the thing going. All we have done in the past few weeks is patch it up, but we are in a bit of a corner now.

"I'm worried about the immediate future," Wadsworth added.

Financial backer Brooks Mileson is currently seriously ill with a brain infection so the finances have dried up from that avenue.

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