CRISIS club Bromsgrove Rovers have been given a 28-day stay of execution in their bid to avoid a winding-up order.
Rovers, who were faced with an £18,000 demand from HM Customs and Excise in a Liverpool court yesterday, had the hearing adjourned until February 26 to give them more time to put together a rescue package.
Chief executive Pat Bannister said that by then the club hopes to have a new seven-year lease on their Victoria Ground home, which landlords Bromsgrove District Council are due to debate in two weeks' time.
Bannister, who is trying to put together a consortium to take over the Dr Martens League Western Division club, said: "It was made clear to us that this was the final adjournment -- there won't be another one.
"What we are doing is we are trying to put together a rescue package now in the hope the lease will come through. If it doesn't, then I will feel I have done as much as possible to keep the club afloat."
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