Tuesday 3rd April 2012

He’s long been the 'face' of Chesterfield Football Club and has guided it though highs and lows during his near 3 decades at the helm of the Board.

Today, Barrie Hubbard has announced he is to step down from that role within the next two months and though sad to leave, feels that it is absolutely the right time to do so.

A proud and affable man, Barrie has seen the club experience the euphoria of promotion and the despair of relegation and also has watched his beloved club torn apart by financial scandal. A long time campaigner for a move from the old Saltergate ground, he was the man credited with persuading Dave Allen to invest in the club and fund the new b2net stadium. The club moved lock, stock and barrel to Whittington Moor in July 2010 and, the rest as they say, is (recent) history.

Listen here to his full and frank interview with the Chesterfield Post or read below...

He has mostly been at the helm during a period which has seen, three promotions, three relegations, two Wembley Play-Off Finals, an historic FA Cup Semi-Final, and winning the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final at the new Wembley Stadium only this season.

His lasting legacy is to have master-minded the club's re-location to the new
£13million, 10,300 all-seater B2net Stadium in 2010 after 139 years at Saltergate, and he leaves a football club, with state of the art facilities, which most importantly is financially stable.

We spoke to Barrie today at the ground (you can listen to the interview above) and he told us why this decision is the right one, his personal and professional hopes for the future - and why he believes the club will experience even more success.

Barrie - you announced your retirement today. Not an easy decision?
"No, not an easy one, but one that I think is sensible - the Directors knew about it some time ago, but with Wembley and one thing and another we decided to leave it as long as possible, but I didn't want to leave it until the end of the season as that would have been bad, so I thought this was a good time really, not much happening so I thought let's do it and get it out of the way."

Why have you chosen to retire now?
"As you know, I came in '83, 29 years ago, as Chairman then too and then I thought, well I was going to go when we got this place up and running - that's going nice now and we've got it sorted - we've had a few hiccups, behind the scenes this is, not on the pitch - we've had hiccups on the pitch this year!

"We're now on an even keel, we know exactly where we're going - the five year plan that Dave bought to the club is still in existence - it's just that if we get relegated this year, then we've got to get promotion next year - which we will do, there's no doubt in my mind - we know what to do, the players we want.

"We have a lot of players now whose contracts are up, I'm not saying by any means that they'll all go, but the opportunity's there for us to look at what's there and move on."

You've been here a long time, this will be your legacy won't it - this lovely new stadium?
"It will won't it? And I look back now and think what it was like when I came in 1983, and look at it now - at least it's in a better situation than it was then, even though I'm going when we've not had the season we expected - we expected a lot better - but these things happen, up and down and that's what it's about. I look back and think this is great and this will be here for a long time."

What are your memories of the 29 years - good and bad?
"A lot of good ones, can't think of many bad ones. We went to Wembley twice and then the play-offs - won one lost one - we did well in the Carling Cup, I remember going to Liverpool and getting 4 goals and drawing 4-4, that was a great day. We went to the semi final in '97, that's something I don't think will ever happen to a little club like ours again. And of course going down last week to Wembley and picking up a cup, I can't remember us ever having done that before.

"We've had some good times, we've had some bad times - this season hasn't been one of the best! But again, the supporters have been great and they know that these things happen and that we've all got to stick together and next year is as good as last season and make sure that we come back, like Swindon."

You’ve seen a lot, what's made you want to get as involved with the club as you have - you're a lifelong Spireite, you could have just bought a seat and a season ticket?
"Exactly! When I came in '83 it wasn't as though I'd planned to do it - it was a very quick decision. They were in a real mess at the time, going to the wall, about a fortnight left and I came then, with other people obviously, and we managed to sort it out then, it was very difficult.

"That's been the story of my life at Chesterfield, we've never had a lot of money, never had a benefactor, like some clubs have had in the lower divisions and we've had to work at keeping going and it's been a big job. We've just had to make sure we didn't spend what we couldn't afford as there was nowhere in the olden days to get money from, only ourselves, and although we've all put some money in, before Dave was involved, it was just enough to keep it going, which we've done and, when I look back at some of the times we've had, that's a feat to keep the place going. Of course when we moved down here and Dave injected a lot of money - a tremendous amount of money - it was only that made it possible."

What's next for Barrie?
"I'm going to play some more golf - I pay £800 a year and I played once or twice last year! This year, I'm going to try and get one or two rounds a week in. I'm going to have to take the missus down to Tesco! We're going to go out, I'm going down to Spain more - I used to go for a month at a time at one time and then with this new stadium, it took a lot of time and we couldn't do it as we had to spend more time here - which we did and thoroughly deserved it, what's happened now has been well worth the holidays we had to miss out on, but, that's by the by. I always thought eventually there'd be some time coming and that's coming now, so it will be a big wrench but I'll find plenty to do, definitely!"

You've been the 'face' of Chesterfield Football Club for a long time, who do you think should take over now?
"I've been pushing and pushing for Dave (Allen) to take over and on Saturday, he did tell me he was going to, which was great as I think he deserves to be Chairman of the Football club.

"He's worked so hard, he's put so much money in to get the upstairs working right and it's a lot of money it brings in - and that's the money the football club needs. He's been in the leisure industry all his life, football is a sport but it's also a leisure industry and he's done it before and I think he should be Chairman, as the majority of the money here is his, even though all the directors on the Board, apart from 2 have got sizable amounts of money in and they've got to be thanked as well.

"It's not just my job and Dave's job, everybody has worked very, very hard and I know that they back Dave to the hilt and I was delighted when he said he would do it.

"He'd said 'I can't afford the time', but now at last he's said he will do it, and that's great for me and one of the reasons I've been able to announce it really now, as I couldn't really say I'm going to retire and they'd say 'who's going to take over' and me say 'I don't know' - but now Dave has said he'll do it, so that's great."

You're confident the club is in safe hands?
"Oh, I am yes, very much so - and that's why I know that next season will be successful."

Must have been disappointing for you this season?
"Oh it has, it's been awful. I don't understand it either. We've played games where we've played some great football, we've played games where we've played half unbelievable, and the other half we have been atrocious, don't know why, the players don't know why, the Manager doesn't know why - he hasn't changed anything.

"Sheffield United, Scunthorpe, Stevenage - we were 2-0 up against Stevenage and then 2-2, and Sheffield United, we were as good as them if not better in the first half, but then second half, they go and get three. Scunthorpe again, they said to me (the Directors), why are you at the bottom of the league, I don't know with a team like you've got for the first half, the second half ... what do you do, I don't know! Same people, so I don't really know.

"I don't know the problem but it's been a real downside for us all, Manager, players, us - we didn't expect to win the league, but we thought we might be half way and we could have been.

"When Tommy Lee got injured, that didn't do us any favours, he got injured and we did let a lot of goals in during the time that he was off - but you can't blame any one person, I mean I'm not blaming Tommy, it's not his fault he got injured, but I think that went a long way to what's happened this season."

But despite the season, you leave a very proud man I'm sure?
"Yes, because we've won a cup as well - which we've never done before - and 18,000 had a great day out. I know we've got to come back to reality and think about the league but, if we get promotion next year, no one will mention relegation this year, but they'll all mention going to Wembley for the cup.

"That was excellent and I'm really pleased for the supporters, to get a day out away from the tension that we've had here this season. It was a good day out and I'm sure they all enjoyed it .We couldn't have wished for a better day, or a better result!"

What's your message to the fans and the club generally?
"As far as the fans are concerned, I'd like to thank them for all the support I've had during the time here. We've had times when they've thought I wasn't the best man on the earth - and rightly so sometimes - I've most likely made more mistakes here than anyone else because I've had to make more decisions than anyone else, but the supporters have been really supportive of me.

"They all speak to me, I know them all - well not all of them - but a vast majority and I'll miss them. They are a big part of any football team because they'll look back now and say we're going to get relegated perhaps and then they'll look what we've got here and they'll look what we've had in the past here when we've got relegated and that was absolutely nothing - so if we start again next season with a new Chairman and an addition to the Board, then we'll do well and it'll be great for me to come down and see them.

"I know they'll do well next year and I know a lot of the supporters have said to me, OK, we've gone down and if we do go down, we'll be really disappointed, but we'll come back and we may come back better.

"Last year we were Champions and that's a big thing, as only one team gets to be Champions of the league. We scored a lot of goals and we let a lot of goals in ourselves so it wasn't perfect, but it was a damned good season compared to this one - but I think we might be a lot better next year and I hope that everyone will stick by us because it's going to be fun next year."

And you'll be back watching as often as possible?
"I'll be back - I'm looking forward to coming! I've never done it - ever - in the 29 years - I had a year off in the 85/86 season and I had 14 months off in the Darren Brown era, so out of the 29 years, it's not been many times I've had off, but I'll be here until they carry me out. This is the place for me. I don't know any other football club, I don't know how people can support one club one week and one another.

"To me, this is the only club I'm interested in and I'll be here as long as they let me come. Even when they don't let me come I'll get in somehow - in disguise!"

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