Football club chairman’s 3G pitch firm goes into administration

A COMPANY owned by Peter McGuigan, the chairman of League Two football club Morecambe FC – which operates its all-weather community pitches – has gone into administration.

The business will continue to run, even though property specialists Simon Thomas and Arron Kendal of London-based insolvency firm Moorfields have been appoints joint administrators of PMG Leisure Ltd.

PMG runs three 3G football pitches behind Morecambe’s Globe Arena stadium and has 11 staff.

Moorfields said the company will “continue to trade the business as normal whilst seeking to achieve a longer term strategy for the company’s assets, working closely with the football club”.

Thomas went on: “The administrators will continue to operate the facilities as normal and will maintain the employment of the company’s 11 staff until a solution is found. In the interim, Morecambe FC will be continuing to use the company’s facilities and should remain unaffected by the administration process.”

The pitches are hired out to the public and used by Morecambe FC for training their youth development teams.

PMG Leisure also has a building which houses the football club’s community support personnel and match day security operations.

PMG, a private limited company, was set up in July 2010. The company is entirely separate to Morecambe Football Club Ltd.