Dec 2: City of York Council calls meeting with a group of senior York businessmen to discuss BC situation.

Dec 3: Batchelor claims he has been the victim of death threats and hits out at accusations against him saying he has 'nothing to hide'.

Professional Footballers' Association step in to pay players' wages.

Dec 4: Evening Press again calls on Batchelor to step down Dec 5: Evening Press confirms club is operating under a transfer embargo.

Dec 6: Trust announces it is continuing its fight to safeguard professional football in York and is now stepping up its fund-raising efforts BCH chairman Craig turns down a plea from supporters' pressure group the FoBC to help the club out of its current financial crisis.

Dec 7: An exceptional' number of objections to plans to build homes on BC received by council chiefs.

Evening Press tries to clarify the uncertainty over the whereabouts of the Persimmon sponsorship money. We confirm agreement for £400,000 was signed with Batchelor's motor-racing team with just £100,000 directed to the football club. City go out of the FA Cup, losing 2-1 to Brentford.

Dec 9: Sheffield United ordered to pay City £13,750 following dispute over Curtis Woodhouse transfer deal Dec 11: Batchelor insists coach Blissett is still employed by the club even though the former England striker has been away from the club for almost a month. Harrogate Town chairman Bill Fotherby claims to be interested in a City take-over.

Dec 12: Evening Press reveal Batchelor's Cheshire home is up for sale, priced at £310,000. Insolvency experts from Jacksons Jolliffe Cork call for improved attendances. City fan Hyla Campbell calls for fans to protest at forthcoming BCH AGM.

Dec 14: A 2-1 win at Kidderminster moves city up into play-off zone.

Dec 16: BCH AGM ends in farce, postponed after just 90 seconds when a letter raising procedural questions on BCH accounts is submitted. Fans blast postponement and a posse stay behind to block the gates to Bootham Crescent and prevent the departure of BCH directors.

Dec 17: Club goes into administration and has just 35 days to survive.

Dec 19: BCH issue statement inviting the football club to continue playing rent-free at BC for a limited period. But only if they - or any new owners - sign a contract that would see Huntington Stadium upgraded to Football League standards within a set time-scale. If the club do not agree they face homelessness from June 30. Players vow to stick together and do all that they can to see the club to promotion.

Dec 20: Council chiefs indicate they will "resist" Persimmon's bid to build on BC - until the club has found a new home. Trust launches pledge appeal.

Dec 23: Blissett announces his intention to stay at City but admits reports he was heading to Scandinavia on scouting missions were just a smoke-screen concocted by Batchelor.

Dec 27: Evening Press lifts lid on the deal that put Batchelor in charge at City. We reveal he had already agreed City would vacate Bootham Crescent by the end of the 2002/3 season before selling season tickets for the 2003/4 campaign to fans at half-price. Leaked documents also show: Craig and the other directors of BCH are allowed to use boardroom facilities at Bootham Crescent until June 30 next year, and those at any new City stadium until end of 2003/4 season.

BCH directors received £350,000 from Persimmon for 20,000 shares in BCH as a deposit for a £3,150,000 conditional contract to buy Bootham Crescent.

BCH had the power to veto the choice of directors for the football club during the length of City's tenancy of BC.

Batchelor promises to refund fans who want their money back in January, should City go under or should a new owner fail to honour his season ticket deal.

Dec 28: Press reveals more details on Batchelor's take-over. Documents show Batchelor agreed to submit a planning application for a new stadium, or a stadium development, by July 11, 2002. Confirm Persimmon agreed to pay £400,000 to sponsor Mr Batchelor's motor-racing team, known as BBi Motorsport, for the 2002, 2003 and 2004 British Touring Car Championships.The agreement makes no mention that the deal included York City Football Club.

City's training ground at Wigginton road is still owned by BCH, the legal documents confirm. The Persimmon-BCH contract has a backstop date of June 30, 2004.

Dec 31: Greenway admits to being gob-smacked after reading in the Evening Press the details of the deal that installed Batchelor as club chairman. The Football Supporters' Federation announces a dishonours list for disservices to the game in which Craig is featured. Administrators announce they are set to meet with three parties interested in stepping in to save the club from extinction.