At the same time, the postponement has cast new doubts over Chester's very future as a football club.
"Manchester United has been transformed as a football club under the management of Sir Alex Ferguson, " according to Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte.
"It is worrying times for everybody, but once matters are resolved permanently I think everybody can start focusing on what we do as a football club, " added Coleman.
Wray denied Saracens would effectively become a South African club in exile, although he cited Arsenal as a football club that has continued to thrive despite a paucity of English players in the first team.
However the Brewers, who at one stage had a 19-point lead at the top of the table, will feel they should already be celebrating life as a Football League club.
While Chester wait to find out their fate as a senior football club, one step they have already been forced to take is the closure of their Centre of Excellence.
You can build a football club as you want to build it with the people in the club and that was my dream.
That makes them akin to other compelling but legal pastimes, such as gambling, following a football club or collecting stamps.
Jerry Richardson, who was her right-hand man during the thuggish days when she surrounded herself with a gang known as the Mandela United Football Club, and is currently serving a life sentence for Stompie's murder, said this week that she ordered that the boy be killed, but did not herself stab him.
Martinez's ambitions represent a seismic shift from when he arrived as a player at a club languishing in the fourth-tier of English football 14 years ago.
Of the leading candidates for the post, Grant has close links with owner Alexandre Gaydamak, having previously served at the club as a director of football.
The fiery-haired Rutherford had trials with the football club Aston Villa as a child but found fame in the long jump, an event formerly dominated by Americans.
"Anybody who can get into double figures (in years) as a manger these days is achieving a huge amount of success for their particular football club, " said Allardyce.
If the rumours are true, Grant did eventually take the Russian billionaire up on his offer as the Israeli arrived as director of football at Portsmouth, a club owned by Alexandre Gaydamak, the son of one of Abramovich's business contacts.
Meanwhile, Massone described his season with Livingston as a "fantastic experience" and did not rule out being involved with a Scottish football club in the future.
Occasionally the cables produce a juicy nugget, such as a report that the military junta in Myanmar wanted to buy Manchester United football club, or of a UN-brokered, American-supported peaceful coup planned by Zimbabwean exiles.
"I don't think you would see Wayne Rooney turning out for a local Manchester league football club as part of his rehab!"
He had been with Dundee and Forfar Athletic as a youth before joining Clyde from junior club Camelon and also had a spell in English football with Hartlepool United.
The largest and most dramatic example of this trend is in Manchester, where the city council hopes that a stadium, now being built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, which will subsequently house Manchester City football club, will serve as a focus for the regeneration of a whole swathe of the east of the city.
The football club may have been operated as a lifestyle for some or as a place for passionate fans to find a good job, but those days must end.
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It said it also gave on-going support to the Kick Racism Out of Football Campaign, "where as a club our players have worn the anti-racism T-shirts on at least three occasions this season, including on Saturday".
Players are part of a football club's assets, and as such we're covered by insurance.
These things from outside can affect you but the best thing you can do as a club is get on with it and win football matches.
Grant returned to Fratton Park in October last year when he was named as the club's director of football, a position he previously held in 2006-07 and became manager last year when Paul Hart was sacked following a poor start to the Premier League campaign.
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In coming to its figures, Forbes looks at a football club's various revenue streams, such as television money, ticket sales, merchandise and concessions.
Northampton Town Football Club are offering bacon rolls and hot drinks as a reward to any volunteers who can help clear snow on Saturday morning, ahead of their match with Burton Albion.
As well as buying Jerusalem's Beitar football club, he set up a tent city for refugees from the north during the Lebanon war and is now planning to build cheap housing for new immigrants.
Ayre has been in his role as Liverpool Football Club's first ever commercial director for just over a year.
Massone told BBC Scotland earlier this week that he was keen on returning to Scottish football and sees buying the cash-strapped Ayrshire club as a way of achieving that.
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