It’s Thursday, September 19 and a couple of hundred Wycombe Wanderers supporters file into the Caledonian Suite at Adams Park for an evening that will go some way to determining the club’s future.



Accompanied by an audience watching live online, these fans spend the next hour and a half learning about a proposed takeover by American businessman Rob Couhig. Like numerous other teams across the English football pyramid, Wycombe are contending with major financial problems and their current status is unsustainable. They need saving.



A deal agreed between Couhig and the supporters’ trust which owns the League One club — Wycombe Wanderers Trust — will be made available on October 15 for inspection by Legacy Members (a group of about 800 people within the Trust). That marks the start of a two-week window for members to vote on the proposal, which requires 75 per cent approval if Couhig is to become majority shareholder.



The 70-year-old...