Robbie Savage: Making Macclesfield FC – watch trailer for new BBC iPlayer documentaryWatch Robbie Savage: Making Macclesfield FC on BBC iPlayer now, and on BBC One on Saturday, 13 November at 11pmRobbie Savage captained four Premier League clubs, played international football for Wales and has to deal with irate fans every week on BBC Radio 5 Live’s 606 show.But none of that prepared the 47-year-old for what he describes as “the hardest thing I’ve ever done”.In a new film on BBC iPlayer, we go behind the scenes as Savage and business partner Rob Smethurst build a new football club from the ashes of another in just nine months.The documentary gives us access to the boardroom, the dressing room and the dugout as things go wrong and money leaks out but, eventually, a successful team is born.We spoke to Savage recently about the film, and his experiences at Macclesfield.”Did I ever see myself as a part-owner of a football club?” he asks. “Probably not. But the opportunity was too good to turn down.”Robbie Savage: Saving Macclesfield FC ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’A club bought off Rightmove: ‘Idiots buy football clubs, but I am an idiot’In September 2020, Macclesfield Town – founded in 1874 – were wound up in the High Court with debts of more than £500,000.A month earlier they had been relegated from the English Football League following a chaotic 2019-20 season during which players went on strike because they weren’t being paid.It left loyal fans – several of… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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Robbie Savage on making Macclesfield FC: ‘The hardest thing I’ve ever done
