Has the Fairytale Ended?

Gretna Football Club look to be hanging over the edge of the cliff as a crisis seems to have set in at the youngest senior Scottish football club.
On Monday it was unveiled that staff and players had not been paid by the SPL side as bizarrely owner Brooks Mileson is the only person who has the authority to pay employees of Gretna FC. The players were also told not to report to training on Tuesday.
Mileson, 60, is currently at a hospital in Newcastle as his health has deteriorated over the past couple of years, suffering from ME and having two stomach operations.
Then on Tuesday morning it was unveiled that manager Davie Irons and assistant manager Derek Collins had left the club to take over at 1st Division side Greenock Morton – it all has the analogy of the abandonment of a sinking ship.
Rumours are currently circulating that Director of Football and Caretakor Manager Mick Wadsworth will leave his post to take a job as Technical Director with the Canadian FA. There is also speculation the club will enter administration on Wednesday – which will result in a ten point deduction from their current SPL total that will leave them 19 points adrift of safety and, miracle-barring, certain relegation to the first division.
Gretna FC entered the Scottish Football League in 2002 and created history by achieving 3 consecutive promotions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 to the SPL. In 2006 the club also reached the Scottish Cup final and only lost out to Hearts on penalties.
Mileson is estimated to have a personal fortune of £75million according to the Sun through insurance construction and property businesses. The problem for Gretna FC is that the heirs of his fortune are not keen on their inheritance going to a struggling football club. Gretna FC will now have to find a way which they can be self sustaining in a bid to keep the football club alive and avoid following the likes of Third Lanark, Meadowbank Thistle and Clydebank to extinction.