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market. Thereafter he vociferously campaigned against the club and its owners until he was paid a substantial sum in order to agree to desist from his actions. For the record Hamer had never been a shareholder in the Club or in its parent company Silver Shield Group. Given the campaign mounted by Hamer which coincided with the decision of ITV to close its subsidiary ITV digital, thereby removing funding from the club, Silver Shield exited.. The Board of Silver Shield who had just sold their main business to Kwik Fit on attractive terms decided to abandon their investment in
Swansea, aFter attemopts to find other investors locally and nationally, and they handed the Club over for £1 to its commercial manager, who in turn passed the Club over some months later when destitute to Tony Petty. This also coincided with Swansea Council's decision to award a contract for the new Morfa Stadium to a developer, Miller, on a contract which would not see the new stadium built for another seven years.
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