• Steve Dale finally agrees deal hours before EFL deadline• C & N Sporting Risk say they have been in talks for weeks
Bury football club appeared to have been handed a narrow reprieve from threatened expulsion out of the EFL late into the night on Friday as owner Steve Dale finally agreed a deal to sell the club hours before the league’s deadline. Dale, who since his £1 takeover in December had failed to provide evidence to the EFL that he had the funds to pay Bury’s debts and fund the club for a season, said that he had agreed a sale of the club to a sports analytics company.
In a statement Rory Campbell, 32, and Henry Newman, 30, directors of that company, C & N Sporting Risk, confirmed that they had been in discussions for 10 weeks about buying Bury, and said they had asked the EFL to extend its 11.59pm deadline to allow them to further investigate the details.