The Burgess Tapes

Martin Burgess will be a name well know to Swans fans but few will know much about his former role at the club.

Martin was employed as Finance Director but left the club during Petty's reign to become one of the leading members of Mel Nurse's takeover team.

After reportedly doing a lot of the hard work to secure the victory over Petty for Nurse, he surprisingly left the team not long after they took over.

Burgess is now listed as a £73,000 creditor of the club and this has made him the target of some adverse comments from a section of the fanbase.

When I first approached Martin with a view to an interview, he declined citing the reason as anything he said could be construed as sour grapes. I respected that and thanked him. But after listening to advice from other people close to the Club he agreed to talk, and that interview appears serialised here.