MIKE Connett says he will take the fight for justice for Northwich Victoria to the courts.
The club's owner is angry the club has been demoted a division and is threatening to sue the Nationwide Conference and the lawyers for the club's administrators, Begbies Traynor.
He told the Chronicle before Saturday's annual Conference meeting he felt he was being set-up and that there were people 'not friends of Northwich Victoria who were involved'.
After delegates at the AGM confirmed Vics' relegation, he said: 'I have been stuffed and the club has been stuffed.
'How can we be thrown out of the Conference and play in the Conference North under the same rules? I am taking the appropriate legal advice.'
A breach of FA rules was uncovered when it became apparent the Northwich Vics (in administration) did not own a lease at the Victoria Stadium which, after a massive effort largely by supporters, had been completed to meet the Conference tests.
Without security of tenure it could not make the transition to Northwich Victoria (2004), a company set up by Mr Connett last year, without meeting other financial criteria.
Mr Connett insisted he was never asked to provide a lease for the original club.
Speaking yesterday, Mr Connett said: 'I have done nothing wrong. Nothing. I am still angry - and I stand by everything I have said.'
