GRIMSBY LEFT IN LIMBO BY SHUTES’ U-TURN

By Tom Blackett

GRIMSBY’S nightmare season has suffered another blow with the news that Tom Shutes has withdrawn from a consortium looking to take over the club.Majority shareholder John Fenty agreed to the sale of the EFL’s bottom club to London-based Shutes, Jason Stockwood and Andrew Pettit in December.But in a statement on Thursday, Mariners chairman Philip Day said Shutes had pulled out.“We are very disappointed that at the last minute when all terms had long been agreed, all of the necessary documentation prepared and the consent of the EFL obtained, we rec...

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