FAR CRY
Ex-Leeds boss Neil Redfearn quietly resigns as manager of Britain’s biggest crisis club after THREE WEEKS
The owner of the club has received death threats from some fans
FORMER Leeds United manager Neil Redfearn has left crisis-stricken Farsley Celtic after just three weeks at the helm.
Redfearn, 59, was appointed manager of the non-league club on January 17 amid ongoing turmoil at the Citadel.
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However, he quietly stepped down from his post last week, the has revealed.
In Redfearn's absence, Farsley Celtic suffered a 6-1 defeat to Needham Market on Saturday.
The result left the Celts 22nd in the National League North table.
Redfearn's departure is the latest in a long line of blows for the club.
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Farsley Celtic are yet to play any games at their home stadium, the Citadel, this season.
The pitch was removed at the end of the 2023-24 season but there have been delays in the process of implementing artificial turf.
As a result, they have been forced to play their home games 70 miles away at the Tarmac Silverlands Stadium in Buxton.
Fans have since boycotted several games and accused owner Paul Barthorpe of trying to "ruin" the club.
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Many believe he is more interested in trying to sell their home stadium to housing developers.
However, Barthorpe has insisted that is not the case.
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In a lengthy statement, he also opened up about the physical abuse he had received and claimed that irate fans had damaged his property.
He said: “People saying I don’t care, I’m destroying the club, I’m not investing in the club, I have ulterior motives which clearly could not be further from the truth!
"This has been my life for almost six years and anyone who owns a business and commits everything to it knows the unconditional love you have for it!
"If my motivation was to run it into the ground I wouldn’t have kept investing to the levels I have on a weekly basis.”
Barthorpe then added: “There have been accusations of a lack of information being shared and a lack of clarity.
"The truth is I have had a number of death threats hand delivered to my home address, I have been physically attacked, I’ve had my car damaged three times, my car tyres slashed, items thrown at my house.
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"And a number of other incidents that have happened directly after club posts or directly after other posts that are damaging and critical and as usual shared across multiple social media sites.
"All of this is currently under investigation and we have been therefore advised to keep our posts to a minimum, so as not to escalate these incidents."
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