Southport remain in the National League relegation zone after a home defeat to local rivals Chester.Report later.

Southport
27Norman
26Higgins
2White
4NolanSubstituted forMcKennaat 70'minutes
23McKeown
6Murray
10HynesBooked at 80mins
22Stevenson
21MeikleSubstituted forGrimesat 84'minutes
7Allen
12JonesSubstituted forAlmondat 70'minutes
Substitutes
8Grimes
14McKenna
19Weeks
24Cundy
25Almond
Chester
1Lynch
4GeorgeSubstituted forVassellat 46'minutes
12Hughes
14Joyce
16Hunt
6Astles
8ShawBooked at 52minsSubstituted forDurrellat 55'minutes
21Lloyd
3HorwoodSubstituted forMahonat 84'minutes
9Alabi
15Richards

Substitutes
5Hudson
7Mahon
10Durrell
13Roberts
17Vassell

Referee:
Martin Coy
Attendance:
1,496

Going down Clapham out now

If he was half a man he would go .

We need to protest and do something because us the fans are letting him ruin our club by not standing up, it's like we're not bothered and don't care.

Originally Posted by grassroots

If he was half a man he would go .

If he was half a man he would be in a circus! Seems he is running one!

Originally Posted by yellowsfan

We need to protest and do something because us the fans are letting him ruin our club by not standing up, it's like we're not bothered and don't care.

You say this year in year out but do nothing about it.

Originally Posted by Ralphy Rylance

You say this year in year out but do nothing about it.

He's saying what everyone with half a brain is thinking, he's entitled to say what he likes without someone like you criticising him.

The root of this clubs problem is Charlie Clapham, it's time he left. The fans are dwinglng away fast, can you blame them, there is no ambition but avoiding relagation every season, well that looks like it's coming to an end, all I can see now is relagation and we will never come back up we are finished, this club s a laughing stock, it did have huge potential but now it has nothing, thanks Clapham you've ruined this club.

Originally Posted by Maddox

He's saying what everyone with half a brain is thinking, he's entitled to say what he likes without someone like you criticising him.

Presumably the ones with half a brain are waiting for someone with a full brain to "protest or do something" because none of those that regularly call for protests "or something" ever actually do anything.

There are probably no more than a handful of people who feel strongly enough to stage a protest, and even if one did take place then Clapham would be impervious to it. I have come across him on a number of occasions and he simply doesn't care what anybody thinks about his running of Southport Football Club. What motivates Charlie Clapham are the trappings of being a club Chairman, even on a small scale. The blazer; the tie; the title; sitting in the Directors' box home and away; invitations to the away club's boardroom; courtesy drinks & vol-au-vents; attending Chairmans' meetings.....all that stuff. He loves it. The height of his ambition for Southport Football Club amounts to keeping them in the National League and if and when that fails he'll pin the blame on other people. That's your Chairman in a nutshell.