The notes went on to slate just about everyone involved with the club as well as the PFA: "This self-centered attitude is made worse in professional football by a Professional Footballers Association union that overprotects the players, babying them and pampering them to where Clubs have barely any way to control or discipline their own players." I bet they won't be happy with those comments.

The epistle went on: "In total then, Chester City has spoiled its players with the best wages, facilities, equipment, weight and fitness machines, transportation, hotels, and meals while also being completely soft on them with minimal training time and no discipline. The result has been exactly the same as any spoiled children of a family, the more that you spoil them the less they appreciate it, and the more self-centered they become." etc etc

Back to tomorrow and all children under the age of 16 will be let in free by Woking, a nice gesture for their last home match of the season, Chester City take note.

"Due to the recent letter to Paul Beesley, we the players find this letter hard to believe as this player has been totally committed to this football club as a player and an assistant manager.

You obviously do not realise the amount of work Paul Beesley does to bring on the younger players at this club. How can you criticise a player that played all his career, at top level football and indeed played under some great managers such as Howard Wilkinson and Harry Bassett?

Paul Beesley is a well respected person and player and highly thought of by all professional players at this club and many others. We recognise this and Paul has 100 per cent backing from the team.

The clubs daily press release states:

�Chester City Football Club has fined player/assistant manager Paul Beesley for failing to follow manager Graham Barrow's playing instructions during Chester's loss to Canvey Island in the second leg of the FA Umbro Trophy Semi-Final.

�During the first half of that loss, Beesley lined up in the incorrect position on every one of Chester City's set pieces including all corners for and free kicks for. His incorrect alignments, and his movement of other key players out of their correct positions, let down the team and players because it made it impossible for the other 10 Chester players to execute the planned and prepared corners and free kicks.

�This is not the first time that Beesley's discipline has been questioned. He has had the highest number of cautions, sendings off, and suspensions for Chester all season and one of the highest in the entire Conference, some for dissension, and the Club feels that this is a bad example for the assistant manager to have set for the rest of the players.

�The Club has also decided to sit Beesley down as a player for the rest of the season because the Club feels that the large number of games that Chester has played this year has taken its toll on a player in his mid-30s.

�Beesley will now be sent on scouting assignments for the rest of the season. Beesley has not scouted any matches of any type throughout this season, neither to look at future opponents nor to look for young players, because Chairman Terry Smith has done this work throughout all the Cup competitions.

�However, now that Smith has stopped doing so following his scouting trip to Leigh RMI last week, then the Club has assigned Beesley to all these duties for the remainder of the season.�

This no doubt follows his comments in last night's issue of the Evening Leader regarding the Chester City Democratic Supporters� Association when he (quite rightly) stated: �I just wish Terry Smith had approached the supporters first. I�m adamant it won�t work and I was inundated with calls last night from fans who can�t believe what is happening. I�ve spoken to other supporters� associations and they think the same. We�re all asking the same question at the moment. What is going on?� Not only chairman of the supporters club, Barrie also carried out many matchday duties at the Deva. �He (Smith) got the staff to tell me I was banned when I went to the ground this morning and they were devastated,� said Hipkiss, This disgraceful action by the club will have many repercussions as anger among the fans is starting to flow over.

Barrie also echoed many fans' fears when he stated: �Unibond League and out of football altogether is where we�re heading and Terry Smith will take us there. God help us is all I can say.�

Expect Terry Smith, who has not been to City's last three matches, to now issue a statement denying absolutely everything and blaming the whole 'misunderstanding' on the local media!

Smith states in the Evening Leader:

�I have now formulated a solution to the entire problem. We will form a Chester City Democratic Supporters Association. This Association will make all of the decisions regarding Chester City Football Club. Every supporter is entitled to be a member of this Association, and each Supporter will have one vote on every issue, just like I will have one vote on every issue. We will hold a meeting at the stadium each week to discuss all of the issues, put in written votes from everyone on each issue, and plan together every future aspect of Chester City Football Club.

There will be three Rules to follow in the meetings.
1) Everyone at the meeting will be on the same side. We will all be working together. There will be no situations like the Labour-Conservative arguments. Everyone will be allowed to have their say, but there will be no arguing and in the end all the issues will come down to a vote by everyone. When that vote is taken, then we all must support that decision.
2) All decisions need to be sound financial decisions so that we do not get the Club into financial difficulty.
3) Any decision needs to be based upon facts and not upon emotions, hearsay or media comments. If all the facts are not known, then a sub-committee will be set up that will research the matter and report their findings back to the entire group for the group to vote on.�

�This will be a great learning experience for both the Supporters and for myself. I have full confidence in our Supporters working together to create a bright future for Chester City, and I am very excited about starting work with them.�

Smith blames a breakdown of communications between himself and the supporters as the root of all the recent problems, this same breakdown of communications also seems to be causing problems between the club and the Inland Revenue.

These moves follow continued unrest with matters off the field at the club. Radio Merseyside's Neil Turner was banned from the press box on Saturday – he paid to sit in the seats, and the local press are reporting unrest among the matchday stewards who are all on the verge of resigning together. If this happened it would cast a doubt over Saturday's home fixture with Dagenham and Redbridge.

Since the quarter-final victory over Southport on 13 March City have lost five of the seven matches played as their form has slumped alarmingly. The home pattern of play also seem far too predictable, with City seemingly only able to adapt one style of play, a defensive one, with few options available should things need to be changed. City's lack of a strong midfield and firepower up front were once again found out.

Saturday's game also saw several demonstrations against chairman Smith. Twelve supporters were ejected (not without a struggle) from the ground at half-time and a large SMITH OUT! banner appeared, was then confiscated, then reappeared in the west stand.

No doubt the trouble off the pitch seems to be getting to the players as much as it is the fans. That Southport match appeared to herald a new era with Smith's copious programme notes that day indicating that he would very soon be off. Six weeks later and a new owner is waiting in the wings but still not in place. Various rumours circulated the Deva on Saturday that the deal had been done but nothing has so far come of it, the sooner the new owner, named in the Daily Post as Phil Davis, is in the place the better.

Last Sunday they entertained Bolton, possibly their greatest adversaries for the North West Womens Premier League title. Chester, missing three key players through holidays and suspension, led 2-1 until 3 minutes from time when a through ball from deep in the Bolton half, broke free into the Chester 18yd box. The Chester keeper's hand appeared to catch the chasing Bolton forward and the referee had little option but to award a penalty and, although the Chester keeper stayed on the field, she had no chance with an excellently struck spot kick.